Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2019
Security expert discovered a privilege escalation flaw that could be exploited by attackers to elevate permissions to SYSTEM in the LG Device Manager application for LG laptops. A security expert who goes online with the moniker Jackson T. has discovered the flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-8372, while analyzing the toolâs low-level hardware access (LHA) kernel-mode driver, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2019
The Proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a recently discovered vulnerability in runc tracked as CVE-2019-5736 is now publicly available. Last week, Aleksa Sarai, a senior software engineer at SUSE Linux GmbH, disclosed a serious vulnerability tracked CVE-2019-5736 affecting runc, the default container runtime for Docker, containerd, Podman, and CRI-O. The vulnerability was discovered by the security researchers Adam Iwaniuk and Borys […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2019
The Trickbot banking trojan continues to evolve, Trend Micro detected a new variant that includes a new module used for Remote App Credential-Grabbing. The infamous Trickbot banking trojan is back, experts at Trend Micro detected a new strain of the malware using an updated info-stealing module. The new strain of the Trickbot banking trojan that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2019
Toyota plans to release the PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed) Car-Hacking Tool on GitHub next month. Takuya Yoshida from Toyotaâs InfoTechnology Center and his colleague Tsuyoshi Toyama are members of a Toyota team that developed the new tool, called PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed). PASTA is an open-source testing platform specifically designed for car hacking, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
Security experts at Myki have recently discovered a new phishing campaign that could deceive even most tech-savvy users. The technique relies upon the concept of being able to reproduce a social login prompt in a very realistic format inside an HTML block. Crooks are distributing links to blogs and services that display users “login using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Adiantum will bring encryption on Android devices without […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2019
Facebook paid a $25,000 bounty for a critical cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability that could have been exploited to hijack accounts simply by tricking users into clicki on a link. The white hat hacker who goes online with the moniker âSamm0udaâ discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability in Facebook and the social network giant paid a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2019
A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web, this time the huge trove of data appears to be originated from eight companies. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘gnosticplayers‘ is offering for sale the data on the Dream Market marketplace asking $14,500 worth of Bitcoin. Early this week, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2019
A new Astaroth Trojan campaign was spotted by the Cybereason’s Nocturnus team, hackers are targeting Brazil and European countries. Researchers at Cybereason’s Nocturnus team have uncovered a new Astaroth Trojan campaign that is currently exploiting the Avast antivirus and security software developed by GAS Tecnologia to steal information and drop malicious modules. “The campaign exploits legitimate operating system processes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2019
Symantec discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. Security experts at Symantec have discovered eight potentially unwanted applications (PUAs) into the Microsoft Store that were dropping cryptojacking Coinhive miners. The removed apps are Fast-search Lite, Battery Optimizer (Tutorials), VPN Browsers+, Downloader for YouTube Videos, Clean Master+ […]
