Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2019
SEC Charges Shopin Founder with fraud over unregistered $42M ICO

Shopin founder charged by SEC for running $42 million scam cryptocurrency ICO The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder of Shopin, Eran Eyal, for allegedly running $42 million scam ICO. The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a digital-asset entrepreneur and his company with defrauding investors in an initial coin offering (ICO) […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2019
A flaw in outdated versions of Beaver Builder and Elementor plugins allows hacking WordPress sites

WordPress sites running outdated versions of “Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder,” or “Ultimate Addons for Elementor” plugins are exposed to hack. Security experts from MalCare discovered a critical easy-to-exploit authentication bypass vulnerability in “Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder,” or “Ultimate Addons for Elementor.” The vulnerability resides in the way the plugins let WordPress account holders, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2019
VISA warns of cyber attacks on PoS systems of fuel dispenser merchants

VISA is warning of ongoing targeted cyber attacks conducted by crooks on point-of-sale (POS) systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants. According to a security alert published by VISA, the PoS systems of North American fuel dispenser merchants are under attack. Visa Payment Fraud Disruption (PFD) reported that at least three attacks took place this summer, crooks […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2019
GALLIUM Threat Group targets global telcos, Microsoft warns

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) warns of GALLIUM threat group targeting global telecommunication providers worldwide. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) warns of GALLIUM threat group targeting global telecommunication providers worldwide. Microsoft experts reported that the GALLIUM hacking group exploits unpatched vulnerabilities to compromise systems running /JBoss application servers. “Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is raising […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2019
AirDoS attack could make iPhones, iPads unusable via AirDrop attack

This week, Apple addressed a flaw that can be exploited to trigger a DoS condition (AirDoS) iPhones and iPads by forcing them to continuously display a popup message. The denial-of-service (DoS) attack was discovered by The security researcher Kishan Bagaria devised a DoS attack dubbed the AirDoS that works against iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2019
Massive Magecart campaign targets sites offering counterfeit sneakers

Crooks are targeting these hundreds of sites offering counterfeit sneakers to install malicious Magecart scripts and steal payment credit card data. While sneakers are becoming even more popular, the number of sites offering counterfeit sneakers is rapidly increasing and crooks want to monetize this trend by compromising them. Researchers at Malwarebytes reported that hackers are […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2019
Trickbot gang and Lazarus APT, the hidden link behind an epochal phenomena

For the first time, experts shed the light on the link between the TrickBot gang and the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus. Security experts Sentinelone have published a report that for the first time sheds the light on the link between the TrickBot crimeware and the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus. For the first time, experts shed the light on the link between […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2019
PlunderVolt attack hijacks Intel SGX Enclaves by tweaking CPU Voltage

A team of researchers devised a new attack technique, dubbed PlunderVolt, to hijack Intel SGX enclave by tweaking CPU voltage. A group of security researchers (Kit Murdock, David Oswald, Flavio D Garcia (The University of Birmingham), Jo Van Bulck, Frank Piessens (imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven), Daniel Gruss (Graz University of Technology)) demonstrated a new attack technique, dubbed PlunderVolt, to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2019
More than 460,000 payment card details offered for sale on a black market

More than 455,000 Turkish payment card details are available for sale on a popular forum Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has detected a massive upload of debit and credit card records mostly related to the largest Turkish banks on one of the most popular underground cardshops. More than 460,000 records […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2019
Microsoft fixes CVE-2019-1458 Windows Zero-Day exploited in NK-Linked attacks

Microsoft’s December 2019 Patch Tuesday updates fix a total of 36 flaws, including CVE-2019-1458 Windows zero-day exploited in North Korea-linked attacks Microsoft’s December 2019 Patch Tuesday updates address a total of 36 flaws, including a Windows zero-day, tracked as CVE-2019-1458 exploited in attacks linked to North Korea. The vulnerability could be exploited to execute arbitrary […]