Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2020
Qualcomm and MediaTek Wi-Fi chips impacted by Kr00k-Like attacks

Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Qualcomm and MediaTek are impacted by vulnerabilities similar to the Kr00k issue disclosed early this year. Earlier this year, experts from ESET disclosed the Kr00k, a new high-severity hardware vulnerability, that affects Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress. The Kr00k vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-15126, could be exploited by nearby remote attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2020
Reddit massive hack: hackers defaced channels with pro-Trump messages

Reddit suffered a massive hack, threat actors compromised tens of Reddit channels and defaced them showing messages in support of Donald Trump’s campaign. Reddit suffered a massive hack, threat actors defaced tens of channel to display messages in support of Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. At the time of writing, the massive hack is still ongoing […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2020
Google Threat Analysis Group took down ten influence operations in Q2 2020

Google published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report which reveals the company has taken down ten coordinated operations in Q2 2020. Google has published its second Threat Analysis Group (TAG) report, a bulletin that includes coordinated influence operation campaigns tracked in Q2 of 2020. Google revealed to have taken down ten coordinated operations in […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2020
Netwalker ransomware operators claim to have stolen data from Forsee Power

Netwalker ransomware operators breached the networks of Forsee Power, a well-known player in the electromobility market. A new company has been added to the list of the victims of the Netwalker ransomware operators, it is Forsee Power, which provides advanced lithium-ion battery systems for any mobility application. The industrial group is based in France and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2020
FBI is warning of cyber attacks against Windows 7 systems that reached end-of-life

The FBI warned private industry partners of risks impacting companies running Windows 7 after the Microsoft OS reached the end of life on January 14. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning companies running Windows 7 systems of the greater risk of getting hacked because the Microsoft OS has reached the end of life on January 14. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2020
Hackers can abuse Microsoft Teams updater to deliver malicious payloads

Threat actors can abuse Microsoft Teams updater to retrieve and execute malicious code from a remote location. Security experts from Trustwave detailed the  Living Off the Land technique that could allow a threat actor to abuse the MS Teams Updater to download any binary or malicious payload from a remote server. The bad news is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2020
Hacker leaks passwords for 900+ Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers

ZDNet reported in exclusive that a list of passwords for 900+ enterprise VPN servers has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet has reported in exclusive that a list of plaintext usernames and passwords for 900 Pulse Secure VPN enterprise servers, along with IP addresses, has been shared on a Russian-speaking hacker forum. ZDNet […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2020
Exclusive: TIM’s Red Team Research finds 4 zero-days in WOWZA Streaming Engine product

Researchers from TIM’s Red Team Research (RTR) have discovered another 4 new zero-day vulnerabilities in the WOWZA Streaming Engine product. Last month, the TIM’s Red Team Research (RTR) disclosed 2 new vulnerabilities affecting the Oracle Business Intelligence product with High severity. Today, the TIM’s Red Team Research led by Massimiliano Brolli, discovered 4 new vulnerabilities […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2020
Flaw in popular NodeJS ‘express-fileupload’ module allows DoS attacks and code injection

Expert found a flaw in a popular NodeJS module that can allow attackers to perform a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on a server or get arbitrary code execution. The NodeJS module “express-fileupload,” which has more that 7.3 million times downloads from the npm repository. The NodeJS module is affected by a ‘Prototype Pollution’ CVE-2020-7699 vulnerability that can allow attackers to perform a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on a […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2020
UberEats data leaked on the dark web

Security researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble have discovered user records of American online food ordering and delivery platform UberEats on DarkWeb. Another day, another data breach made the headlines, this time the alleged victim is UberEATS. UberEats is an American online food ordering and delivery platform launched by Uber in 2014. During the process […]