Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2019
The Magecart gang made the headlines again, the hackers this time compromised the Forbes magazine subscription website. The Magecart group is back, the hackers this time compromised injected a skimmers script into the Forbes magazine subscription website. The malicious traffic was spotted by the security expert Troy Mursch, Chief Research Officer of Bad Packets, on Wednesday. Magecart hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2019
The BlackTech cyber-espionage group exploited the ASUS update process for WebStorage application to deliver the Plead backdoor. The cyber espionage group tracked as BlackTech compromised the ASUS update process for WebStorage application to deliver the Plead backdoor. The BlackTech group was first observed by ESET on July 2018, when it was abusing code-signing certificates stolen from D-Link for the […]
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 in WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568, 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 hacker Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y) discovered how to brick all Samsung mobile phones. French white hat hacker Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y) discovered how to brick all Samsung 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 […]
