Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2019
PoC Exploits for CVE-2019-0708 wormable Windows flaw released online

Several security experts have developed PoC exploits for wormable Windows RDS flaw tracked as CVE-2019-0708 and dubbed BlueKeep. Experts have developed several proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the recently patched Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-0708 and dubbed BlueKeep. One of the PoC exploits could be used for remote code execution on vulnerable […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2019
Anonymous and LulzSec target the Italian Police and doctors

In the last 10 days, the collectives of Anonymous and LulzSec continued their operations carrying out several cyber attacks. The main objectives of the attacks carried out by Anonymous and LulzSec ITA were the Italian doctors and the Law enforcement agencies Forces, in particular, the Police and the Carabinieri. They protest against the abuses the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2019
SandboxEscaper disclosed 3 Microsoft zero-day flaws in 24 hours

Yesterday SandboxEscaper publicly disclosed a Windows zero-day vulnerability, now she disclosed other two unknown issues in less than 24 hours. Just Yesterday, the popular developer SandboxEscaper publicly disclosed a Windows zero-day vulnerability in the Task Manager, now in less than 24 hours the revealed two more unpatched Microsoft zero-day flaws. The two new zero-day issues […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2019
ActiveX Controls in South Korean websites are affected by critical flaws

Security experts discovered tens of critical vulnerabilities were found in 10 South Korean ActiveX controls as part of a short research project. Security researchers at Risk Based Security have discovered tens of critical vulnerabilities in 10 South Korean ActiveX controls as part of a research project. The experts discovered that many South Korean websites still […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2019
G Suite users’ passwords stored in plain-text for more than 14 years

Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2019
SandboxEscaper is back with a new Windows Zero-Day in Task Scheduler

SandboxEscaper is back with a new Windows Zero-Day in Win 10 Task Scheduler The developer SandboxEscaper makes the line again, this time he publicly released the exploit code for a Windows zero-day that affect the Windows 10 Task Scheduler. Since August 2018, the expert already revealed other four Windows zero-day vulnerabilities without reporting them to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019
Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw CVE-2019-11815 affects RDS

Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-11815 could lead to privilege escalation, it received a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019
Chronicle experts spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor

Security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Security experts from Chronicle, the Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have discovered a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. It is the first time that researchers found a Linux version of the backdoor user by China-linked APT groups tacked as Winnti. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2019
Unpatched Ethereum Clients expose the ecosystem to 51% Attack risk

Security researchers from SRLabs have published a report that analyzed the risks for Ethereum network caused by unpatched Ethereum clients. Researchers at SRLabs published a report based on ethernodes.org data, that revealed that a large number of nodes using the popular clients Parity and Geth is still unpatched. The expert discovered that the Ethereum clients and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2019
Number of hacktivist attacks declined by 95 percent since 2015

According to a study conducted by IBM, the number of hacktivist attacks that caused quantifiable damage has declined by 95 percent since 2015. Even if in Italy the cells of the popular Anonymous collective are very active, the overall number of hacktivist attacks that caused in quantifiable damage to the victim has declined by 95 […]