Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2018
Chili’s restaurant chain is the last victim of a Payment Card Breach

Brinker International warns customers who recently paid with their payment card at a Chili’s restaurant may have had their financial data stolen by crooks. On May 11, Brinker International company, which operates more than 1,600 Chili’s and Maggiano’s restaurants across 31 countries worldwide, announced to have suffered a data breach. “This notice is to make you […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2018
A new flaw in Electron poses a risk to apps based on the framework

Security experts have discovered a vulnerability in the Electron software framework that has been used for building a large number of popular desktop applications. Popular desktop applications, including Skype, Slack, GitHub Desktop, Twitch, WordPress.com, and others, are potentially affected. Electron is a node.js, V8, and Chromium open-source framework that allows developers to use web technologies such as […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2018
Malicious package containing Bytecoin cryptocurrency miner found on the Ubuntu Snap Store

An Ubuntu user has spotted a Bytecoin cryptocurrency miner hidden in the source code of an Ubuntu Snap Pack in the Official Ubuntu Snap Store. An Ubuntu user that goes online with the GitHub moniker “Tarwirdur” has discovered a malware in the source code of an Ubuntu snap package hosted on the official Ubuntu Snap Store, a […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2018
Wannacry outbreak anniversary: the EternalBlue exploit even more popular now

WannaCry ransomware outbreak anniversary – According to researchers from ESET, the popularity of EternalBlue increase significantly over the past months. Exactly one year ago, on May 12, the WannaCry ransomware infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. The success of the malware was the use of the EternalBlue exploit that was stolen by Shadow Brokers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2018
Throwhammer, the new Rowhammer attack to remotely hack systems over the LAN

  Security experts devised a new attack technique dubbed Throwhammer that could be exploited by attackers to launch Rowhammer attack on a system in a LAN. A few days ago we discussed the GLitch attack that leverages graphics processing units (GPUs) to launch a remote Rowhammer attack against Android smartphones. Now security experts devised a new attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2018
Mining passwords from dozens of public Trello boards

Trello, when an error in the publishing strategy is able to put at risk the private data of a huge community of unaware users. A “Security enthusiastic” found a vulnerability in the Trello web management and now with a simple dork is possible to query to mine passwords from dozens of public Trello boards. Our […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2018
Allanite threat actor focused on critical infrastructure is targeting electric utilities and ICS networks

Security experts from the industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos warn of a threat actor tracked as Allanite has been targeting business and industrial control networks at electric utilities in the United States and the United Kingdom. Dragos experts linked the campaigns conducted by the Dragonfly APT group and Dymalloy APT, aka Energetic Bear and Crouching Yeti, to a threat actors they […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2018
The source code of the TreasureHunter PoS Malware leaked online

  Security experts at Flashpoint confirmed the availability online for the source code of the TreasureHunter PoS malware since March. The researchers found evidence that the threat has been around since at least late 2014. TreasureHunt was first discovered by researchers at the SANS Institute who noticed the malware generating mutex names to evade detection. TreasureHunt enumerates the processes running on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2018
Misinterpretation of Intel docs is the root cause for the CVE-2018-8897 flaw in Hypervisors and OSs

Developers of major operating systems and hypervisors misread documentation from Intel and introduced a the CVE-2018-8897 vulnerability into to their products. The development communities of major operating systems and hypervisors misread documentation from Intel and introduced a potentially serious vulnerability to their products. The CERT/CC speculates the root cause of the flaw is the developers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2018
Analysis of CVE-2018-8174 VBScript 0day and APT actor related to Office targeted attack

Recently, the Advanced Threat Response Team of 360 Core Security Division detected an APT attack exploiting a 0-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-8174. Now the experts published a detailed analysis of the flaw. I Overview Recently, the Advanced Threat Response Team of 360 Core Security Division detected an APT attack exploiting a 0-day vulnerability and captured the world’s […]