Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2021
Popular SHAREit app is affected by severe flaws yet to be fixed

Multiple vulnerabilities in the popular file-sharing app SHAREit have yet, to be addressed, experts from Trend Micro warned. SHAREit is a popular file-sharing Android app with more than one billion downloads, experts from Trend Micro discovered multiple unpatched vulnerabilities in its code. The vulnerabilities impact the Android version of SHAREit, a mobile app that allows users […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2021
France agency ANSSI links Russia’s Sandworm APT to attacks on hosting providers

French agency ANSSI attributes a series of attacks targeting Centreon servers to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The French security agency ANSSI is warning of a series of attacks targeting Centreon monitoring software used by multiple French organizations and attributes them to the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The first attack spotted by ANSSI experts dates back […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2021
The malicious code in SolarWinds attack was the work of 1,000+ developers

Microsoft says it found 1,000-plus developers’ fingerprints on the SolarWinds attack Microsoft’s analysis of the SolarWinds supply chain attack revealed that the code used by the threat actors was the work of a thousand developers. Microsoft president Brad Smith provided further details about the investigation of the SolarWinds supply chain attack, the company’s analysis of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2021
The kingpin behind Joker’s Stash retires with a billionaire exit

The administrators of the most popular carding marketplace on the dark web Joker’s Stash announced his retirement. Cybercriminal behind the most prominent carding marketplace on the dark web Joker’s Stash retires, he will shut down its servers and destroy the backups. According to Forbes, the man has amassed a billion dollars worth of Bitcoin with […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2021
PayPal addresses reflected XSS bug in user wallet currency converter

PayPal has addressed a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that affected the currency converter feature of user wallets.  PayPal has fixed a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that was discovered in the currency converter feature of user wallets on February 19, 2020, close one year ago. The ‘reflected XSS and CSP bypass’ vulnerability was reported […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2021
Court documents show FBI could use a tool to access private Signal messages on iPhones

Court documents obtained by Forbes revealed that the FBI may have a tool that allows accessing private Signal messages on iPhones. Court documents related to a recent gun-trafficking case in New York and obtained by Forbes revealed that the FBI may have a tool to access private Signal messages. The documents revealed that encrypted messages can be intercepted from […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2021
Gmail users from US most targeted by email-based phishing and malware

Google revealed that Gmail users from the United States are the most targeted by email-based phishing and malware. A joint five-month study conducted by Google with Stanford University researchers analyzed over 1.2 billion email-based phishing and malware attacks against Gmail users to determine what are factors influence the risk of attack. Experts discovered that malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2021
TIM’s Red Team Research (RTR) discovered a critical zero-day vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server

Researchers at TIM’s Red Team Research discovered a zero-day vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server. Today, TIM’s Red Team Research led by Massimiliano Brolli, discovered a new critical vulnerability in IBM InfoSphere Information Server. The flaw has not addressed by IBM, because the product version 8.5.0.0 is in End-of-life. Today, TIM’s Red Team Research led […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2021
Microsoft warns of the rise of web shell attacks

Researchers from Microsoft are warning that the number of monthly web shell attacks has doubled since last year. Microsoft reported that the number of monthly web shell attacks has almost doubled since last year, its experts observed an average of 140,000 of these software installs on servers on a monthly basis, while in 2020 they […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2021
The “P” in Telegram stands for Privacy

Security expert Dhiraj Mishra analyzed the popular instant messaging app Telegram and identified some failures in terms of handling the users’ data. Summary: While understanding the implementation of various security and privacy measures in Telegram, I identified that telegram fails again in terms of handling the users data. My initial study started with understanding how self-destructing […]