Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2019
Security experts warn of a new piece of the Silex malware that is bricking thousands of IoT devices, and the situation could rapidly go worse. Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar discovered a new piece of the Silex malware that is bricking thousands of IoT devices, over 2,000 devices have been bricked in a few hours and the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2019
Operation Soft Cell – Experts at Cybereason discovered that China-linked hackers have breached numerous telco providers controlling their networks. Researchers at Cybereason uncovered an ongoing long-running espionage campaign, tracked as Operation Soft Cell, that targets telco providers. Tactics, techniques, and procedures, and the type of targets suggest the involvement of a nation-state actor likely linked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2019
Mac security software firm Intego has spotted a new Mac malware dubbed OSX/Linker that exploits a recently disclosed macOS Gatekeeper vulnerability. Experts at Mac security software firm Intego discovered a new piece of Mac malware dubbed OSX/Linker that exploits a recently disclosed macOS Gatekeeper bypass vulnerability. The Apple Gatekeeper is designed to protect OS X users by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2019
Belgium police have identified a member of the Anonymous Belgium collective while investigating an arson case at a local bank. The Anonymous member is a 35-year-old man from Roeselare, Belgium, was arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Crelan Bank office in Rumbeke, back in 2014. According to ZDnet, the hacker has been exposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2019
After media reported a cyber offensive launched by the US against Iran, Teheran announced that alleged cyber attack against its infrastructure has ever succeeded. Last week, media reported that the United States has launched a series of cyber attacks on Iran after the Iranian military has downed an American surveillance drone. US President Donald Trump […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2019
SocialEngineered.net is a forum dedicated to social engineering discussions, it has been compromised data of its users was leaked on a hacker forum. SocialEngineered.net, the forum dedicated to social engineering topics, announced it has suffered a data breach two weeks ago. Hackers accessed data from tens of thousands of members and leaked them online on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2019
Researchers from Netlab, discovered a website offering free and commercial proxy servers leveraging a huge botnet (Ngioweb) of hacked WordPress sites. Researchers from Netlab, discovered that Free-Socks.in proxy service is leveraging a huge botnet of hacked WordPress sites. According to the experts, traffic managed by the proxy service is routed through a network of hacked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2019
Malware researchers at Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB observed many attack attempts trying to spread malware abusing the CVE-2019-10149 issue. Introduction In the past days, a really important issue has been disclosed to the public: “Return of the WiZard” vulnerability (ref. EW N030619, CVE-2019-10149). Such vulnerability affected a wide range of Exim servers, one of the main email server […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2019
OpenSSH introduces a new feature to prevent Side-Channel attacks, latest release encrypts secret keys in memory as temporary solution. Memory side-channel vulnerabilities continue to threaten modern processors, Spectre, and Meltdown, Rowhammer, and RAMBleed are just some samples, Now OpenSSH encrypts secret keys in memory against Side-Channel attacks. Many experts demonstrated variants of side-channel attacks against OpenSSH application […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2019
Hundreds of million computers from many vendors may have been exposed to hack due to a serious flaw in PC-Doctor software. Experts at SafeBreach discovered that the Dell SupportAssist software, that comes preinstalled on most Dell PCs, was affected by a DLL hijacking vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-12280. The flaw could have been exploited by an […]
