Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 190 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      6,500+ sites deleted after Dark Web hosting […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2018
North Korea-linked group Lazarus targets Latin American banks

According to security reearchers at Trend Micro, the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus recently targeted banks in Latin America. The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus recently targeted banks in Latin America, Trend Micro experts reported. The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2018
Beware Black Friday & Cyber Monday shoppers: fake products, credit cards scams and other types of fraud

Group-IB security experts are warning about the increasing scammers’ activity during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, warns about the increasing scammers’ activity during the Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales. Group-IB experts have discovered more than 400 website-clones of the popular marketplace AliExpress and roughly 200 fake websites […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2018
Exclusive Cybaze ZLab – Yoroi – Hunting Cozy Bear, new campaign, old habits

The experts at Cybaze ZLab – Yoroi continue the analysis of new strain of malware used by the Russia-linked APT29 cyberespionage group (aka Cozy Bear) The experts at Cybaze ZLab – Yoroi continue the analysis of new strain of malware used by the Russia-linked APT29 cyberespionage group (aka The Dukes, Cozy Bear, and Cozy Duke). The researchers of Yoroi ZLab, on […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2018
Software company OSIsoft has suffered a data breach

Software company OSIsoft has suffered a data breach, the firm confirmed that all domain accounts have likely been compromised. Software company OSIsoft notified security breach to employees, interns, consultants, and contractors. The company offers real-time data management solutions, its core product is the open enterprise infrastructure, the PI System, that allows connecting sensor-based data, systems, and people. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2018
Chaining 3 zero-days allowed pen testers to hack Apple macOS computers

Dropbox team disclosed three critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple macOS, chaining them it is possible to take over a Mac computer. Dropbox team disclosed three critical zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-13890, CVE-2018-4176, CVE-2018-4175) affecting the Apple macOS operating system, an attacker could chain them to remotely execute arbitrary code on a targeted Mac computer. The attacker only needs to trick victims […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2018
Flaw allowing identity spoofing affects authentication based on German eID cards

The authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed, an attacker could impersonate any other citizen. The nightmare comes true, the authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed and a flaw could allow an attacker to allow identity spoofing and changing the date of birth. The situation is […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2018
Experts found first Mirai bot targeting Linux servers via Hadoop YARN flaw

Security experts from Netscout Asert discovered more than ten Mirai bot variants attempting to exploit a recently disclosed flaw in Hadoop YARN on Intel servers. These Mirai variants are the first one that doesn’t target Internet of Things devices, the bot was specifically developed to target Linux servers. The Hadoop YARN is vulnerability is a command injection […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2018
A flaw in US Postal Service website exposed data on 60 Million Users

US Postal Service has patched a critical bug that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view and modify account details for other users US Postal Service has patched a critical bug that allowed anyone who has an account at usps.com to view and modify account details for other users, some 60 million users were affected. The news was […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 21, 2018
Facebook increases rewards for its bug bounty program and facilitate bug submission

Facebook updates its bug bounty program, it is increasing the overall rewards for security flaws that could be exploited to take over accounts. Facebook announced an important novelty for its bug bounty, the social media giant is going to pay out as much as $40,000 for vulnerabilities that can be exploited to hack into accounts without […]