Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
Scranos is a powerful cross-platform rootkit-enabled spyware discovered while investigating malware posing as legitimate software like video players, drivers and even anti-virus products. The Scranos rootkit malware was first discovered late last year when experts at Bitdefender were analyzing a new password- and data-stealing operation leveraging around a rootkit driver digitally signed with a stolen […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
Ecuador suffered 40 million cyber attacks on websites of public institutions since the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Last week, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. after Ecuador withdrew asylum after seven years. In response to the arrest acktivist communities launched several attacks against the Ecuador government. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
A recently fixed local privilege escalation flaw in windows (CVE-2019-0803) had been exploited by bad actors to deliver PowerShell Backdoor. April 2019 Patch Tuesday security updates addressed a local privilege escalation flaw in Windows operating system, tracked as CVE-2019-0859 that had been exploited by threat actors to deliver a PowerShell backdoor. The flaw could allow […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
The popular hacker Gnosticplayers made the headlines again, he is offering for sale on the dark web the fifth round of hacked accounts. The popular hacker Gnosticplayers is offering for sale on the dark web the fifth round of hacked accounts. Between February and March, the hacker disclosed the existence of some massive unreported data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
Experts at Imperva discovered a new type of large-scale DDoS attack that abuses the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. Experts at Imperva Vitaly Simonovich and Dima Bekerman observed a large-scale DDoS attack abusing the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. The DDoS attack peaked at a massive 7,500 requests per second and delivered more than 70 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
Locked Shields 2019 – France wins, the world’s biggest and most advanced international cyber drills organized by NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence (CCDCOE). The international live-fire cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2019(LS19) took place on April 8-12 in Tallinn, Estonia, and the figures behind this important competition are important. Locked Shields 2019 is organised […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
Thousands of WordPress sites using the Yellow Pencil Plugin were exposed to hacking due to a privilege escalation vulnerability in the plugin. A privilege escalation vulnerability in the Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer plugin exposes WordPress websites to hack. The flaw could be exploited by attackers to update arbitrary options on vulnerable installations. Early this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2019
Two Romanian hackers are convicted of infecting 400,000 computers in the U.S. with malicious code and stole millions of dollars from the victims. Bogdan Nicolescu and Radu Miclaus are convicted of infecting 400,000 computers, most of them in the U.S.. The malware was developed to steal credentials, financial data, personal information, then the crooks offered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2019
Bad news for users of the Microsoft Outlook email service, hackers have compromised the Microsoft Support Agent to access their email accounts. Earlier this year, hackers breached Microsoft’s customer support portal and gained access to some email accounts registered with the Microsoft’s Outlook service. Microsoft notified some of its users the security breach, it confirmed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2019
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents Media outlet Techcrunch reported that a hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and leaked the stolen info online. A hacker group claims to have hacked dozens of websites affiliated with the FBI and leaked online dozens of files containing the personal […]
