Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2017
A Kernel Exploit for Sony PS4 Firmware 4.05 is available online

The developer SpecterDev finally released a fully-functional kernel exploit for PlayStation 4 (firmware 4.05) dubbed ‘namedobj’. Good news for PlayStation gamers, the developer SpecterDev finally released a fully-functional kernel exploit for PlayStation 4 (firmware 4.05) dubbed ‘namedobj’. PS4 gamers who are running firmware version lower than 4.05 need to update their gaming console to trigger […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2017
For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password found in data dumps in 2017

For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password found in data dumps in 2017 despite the numerous warning of using strong passwords. For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password among the millions of passwords exposed online due to the numerous data breaches suffered by organizations and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2017
The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta suffered a DNS attack

The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789) as well as a large number of tokens. The spike in cryptocurrency values is attracting cybercriminals, the last victim is the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta that announced a potential attack against its DNS server. As result […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2017
Mozilla patches five issues in Thunderbird, including a critical flaw

Mozilla issued a critical security update to address five flaws in the popular open-source Thunderbird email client. The latest release, Thunderbird 52.5.2 version, fixes the vulnerabilities, including two issues rated as high, one rated moderate and another low. The most severe flaw fixed with the Thunderbird 52.5.2 version is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability (tracked as […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2017
ATMs operated by a Russian Bank could be hacked by pressing five times the ‘Shift’ key

ATMs operated by the Sberbank bank running Windows XP are affected by easily exploitable security vulnerabilities, they could be hacked by pressing five times the ‘Shift’ key. We have warned several times of risks for ATM running outdated Windows XP operating system. These systems could be easily hacked as recently discovered by an employee of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2017
Experts discovered a flaw in GoAhead that affects hundreds of thousands IoT devices

Experts from Elttam discovered a flaw in GoAhead tiny web server that affects hundreds of thousands IoT devices, it could be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on affected devices. A vulnerability in the GoAhead tiny web server package, tracked as CVE-2017-17562, affects hundreds of thousands of IoT devices. The GoAhead solution is widely adopted by tech giants, including Comcast, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2017
Schneider Electric Patches Flaws in Pelco VideoXpert Enterprise product

Schneider Electric recently released a firmware update for its Pelco VideoXpert Enterprise product that addresses several vulnerabilities, including a high severity code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-9966. The Pelco VideoXpert solution is widely used in commercial facilities worldwide. The security researcher Gjoko Krstic has found two directory traversal bugs and an improper access control flaw that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2017
Financially motivated attacks reveal the interests of the Lazarus APT Group

Researchers at security firm Proofpoint collected evidence of the significant interest of the Lazarus APT group in cryptocurrencies, the group’s arsenal of tools, implants, and exploits is extensive and under constant development. Researchers at security firm Proofpoint collected evidence of the significant interest of the Lazarus APT group in cryptocurrencies. The North Korea-Linked hackers launched several multistage attacks that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2017
Russian Fancy Bear APT Group improves its weapons in ongoing campaigns

Fancy Bear APT group refactored its backdoor and improved encryption to make it stealthier and harder to stop. The operations conducted by Russian Fancy Bear APT group (aka Sednit, APT28, and Sofacy,  Pawn Storm, and Strontium) are even more sophisticated and hard to detect due to. According to a new report published by experts from security firm ESET, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2017
Satori is the latest Mirai botnet variant that is targeting Huawei HG532 home routers

Satori botnet, Mirai variant, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532 home routers. The Mirai botnet makes the headlines once again, a new variant dubbed Satori is responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532 home routers. The activity […]