Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2018
Experts disclose dangerous flaws in robotic Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums

Positive Technologies discovered two flaws affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums that can be used to perform video surveillance. Security researchers from Positive Technologies have discovered two vulnerabilities affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuum cleaners that could be exploited by an attacker to run malicious code on a device with superuser privileges. The flaws likely affect smart vacuum cleaners […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2018
MoneyTaker hacking group stole 1 million US dollars from Russian PIR Bank

The cybersecurity firm Group-IB is involved in the incident response on an attack on the Russian PIR Bank conducted by MoneyTaker hacking group. MoneyTaker hacker group has stolen 1 million US dollars from the Russian bank, the cyber heist occurred on July 3 through the Russian Central Bank’s Automated Workstation Client (an interbank fund transfer system similar […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2018
Thousands of Mega account credentials leaked online, it is credential stuffing

Thousands of account credentials associated with the popular file storage service Mega have been published online, The former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle, co-founder at Digita Security, discovered in June a text file containing over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names. 😱 Found file on VirusTotal w/ 15K+ Mega accounts (user names/passwords & users' file listings) đŸ˜„đŸ€Ź […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2018
Cisco fixes critical and high severity flaws in Policy Suite and SD-WAN products

Cisco has found over a dozen critical and high severity vulnerabilities in its Policy Suite, SD-WAN, WebEx and Nexus products. The tech giant has reported customers four critical vulnerabilities affecting the Policy Suite. The flaws tracked as CVE-2018-0374, CVE-2018-0375, CVE-2018-0376, and CVE-2018-0377 have been discovered during internal testing. Two of these flaws could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to access […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018
How crooks conduct Money Laundering operations through mobile games

Experts uncovered a money laundering ring that leverages fake Apple accounts and gaming profiles to make transactions with stolen payment cards. A money laundering ring leverages fake Apple accounts and gaming profiles to make transactions with stolen payment cards and then sells these game premiums on online forums and within gaming communities. The money laundering […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018
US Biggest Blood Testing Laboratories LabCorp suffered a security breach

Hackers have breached the network at LabCorp, one of the largest diagnostic blood testing laboratories in the US, millions of Americans potentially at risk. The biggest blood testing laboratories network in the US, LabCorp has suffered a security breach. The company announced the incident on Monday, the security breach occurred over the weekend. The hackers breached into […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018
QUASAR, SOBAKEN AND VERMIN RATs involved in espionage campaign on Ukraine

Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign aimed at Ukrainian government institutions and involving three different RATs, including the custom-made VERMIN. Security researchers from ESET uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign aimed at Ukrainian government institutions, attackers used at least three different remote access Trojans (RATs). The campaign was first spotted in January by […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018
Cyber espionage campaign targets Samsung service centers in Italy

Security researchers from Italian security firm TG Soft have uncovered an ongoing malware campaigns targeting Samsung service centers in Italy. “TG Soft’s Research Centre (C.R.A.M.) has analyzed the campaign of spear-phishing on 2 april 2018 targeting the service centers of Samsung Italy.” reads the analysis published by TG Soft. “The campaign analyzed is targeting only the service centers of Samsung […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2018
Researchers show how to manipulate road navigation systems with low-cost devices

Researchers have developed a tool that poses as GPS satellites to deceive nearby GPS receivers and manipulate road navigation systems. Researchers have developed a tool that poses as GPS satellites to deceive nearby GPS receivers. The kit could be used to deceive receivers used by navigation systems and suggest drivers the wrong direction. “we explore […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2018
Crooks deployed malicious ESLint packages that steal software registry login tokens

Hackers compromised the npm account of an ESLint maintainer and published malicious versions of eslint packages to the npm registry. Crooks compromised an ESLint maintainer’s account last week and uploaded malicious packages that attempted to steal login tokens from the npm software registry. npm is the package manager for JavaScript and the world’s largest software registry. ESLint is open […]