Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2019
Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address a critical flaw in Flash Player and more than 80 vulnerabilities in Acrobat products. Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for May 2019 address a total of 84 vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader products for Windows and macOS. The tech company addressed many critical vulnerabilities in its products, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2019
Millions of computers powered by Intel processors are affected by a new class of vulnerabilities (MDS) that can leak potentially sensitive data. Researchers from multiple universities and security firms discovered a new class of speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities that could be exploited with new side-channel attack methods dubbed Fallout, RIDL (Rogue In-Flight Data Load), and ZombieLoad. “On May […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2019
Security firm Red Balloon discovered a severe vulnerability dubbed Thrangrycat, in Cisco products that could be exploited to an implant persistent backdoor in many devices. Experts at Red Balloon Security disclosed two vulnerabilities in Cisco products. The first issue dubbed Thrangrycat, and tracked as CVE-2019-1649, affects multiple Cisco products that support Trust Anchor module (TAm). The issue […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2019
The North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37 and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37, Reaper, and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2019
Facebook fixed a critical zero-day flaw in WhatsApp that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. Facebook has recently patched a critical zero-day vulnerability inĀ WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568,Ā that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. WhatsApp did not name the threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 – In 2018 cyber-security experts observed an increased number of cyber attacks, malware endure to be the most aggressive and pervasive threat. For this reason, analyzing the last year occurred events would help cyber-security professionals to prevent further attacks during the next few months. In many cases the attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
A vulnerability in a GPS tracker used by elderly people and kids could be exploited by an attacker to spy on individuals using it. Researchers at Fidus Information Security discovered a vulnerability in GPS trackers used by elderly people and kids could be exploited to spy on them. Experts discovered that the safety device can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
The popular French white hat hackerĀ Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y)Ā discovered how to brick all SamsungĀ mobile phones. French white hat hackerĀ Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y)Ā discovered how to brick all SamsungĀ mobile phones. Baptiste bought a Samsung mobile phone a few months ago and decided to analyze it. After a few hours of tests, he discovered an unprotected receiver in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Two hacking groups associated with large-scale crypto mining campaigns, Pacha Group and Rocke Group, wage war to compromise as much as possible cloud-based infrastructure. The first group tracked as Pacha Group has Chinese origins, it was first detected in September 2018 and is known to deliver the Linux.GreedyAntd miner. The Pacha Group’s attack chain starts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2019
The paradox, the USB stick eyeDisk that uses iris recognition to unlock the drive could reveal the deviceās password in plain text in a simple way. eyeDisk is a USB stick that uses iris recognition to unlock the drive, it is advertised as the “Unhackable USB Flash Drive,” instead it could reveal the deviceās password […]
