Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2018
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2018
Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from the Amazon UK branch that is notifying them an accidental data leak. The news is disconcerting, Amazon has suffered a data breach a few days before Black Friday Many readers of the Register shared with the media outlet an email sent from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2018
Security experts have found several vulnerabilities affecting Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance products. They also warn that VMware’s vSphere Data Protection, which is based on Avamar, is also affected by the issues. Dell EMC released security updates for Dell EMC Avamar Client Manager in Dell EMC Avamar Server and Dell EMC Integrated Data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2018
Sofacy APT group (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium) has a new weapon in its arsenal dubbed Cannon. The Russia-linked APT group delivers Cannon in a spear-phishing attack that targets government organizations in North America, Europe and in a former USSR state. Experts at Palo Alto Networks spotted a new campaign in late October and early November, spear-phishing messages used Word […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2018
Hackers targeted Drupal web servers chaining some known vulnerabilities, including Drupalgeddon2 and DirtyCOW issues. Security experts at Imperva reported an attack against Drupal Web servers running on Linux-based systems. Hackers exploited the Drupalgeddon2 flaw (CVE-2018-7600) along with other issues. The Drupalgeddon2 could be exploited to take over a website, it affects Drupal versions 6, 7 and 8. The other flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2018
Two men from Tamworth, Staffordshire were sentenced to prison for their roles in the 2015 TalkTalk hack. Two men, Connor Allsopp, 21, and Matthew Hanley, 23, pleaded guilty to charges of hacking. Allsopp has been sentenced to 8 months in jail and Hanley to 12 months. In October 2015, TalkTalk Telecom Group plc publicly disclosed that four […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2018
Security researchers at F-Secure have recently uncovered a small spam campaign aimed at delivering spyware to Mac users that use Exodus wallet. Security experts at F-Secure have recently spotted a small spam campaign aimed at Mac users that use Exodus cryptocurrency wallet. The campaign leverages Exodus-themed phishing messages using an attachment named “Exodus-MacOS-1.64.1-update.zip.” The messages were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2018
TP-Link has addressed several vulnerabilities, including a remote code execution flaw, in its TL-R600VPN small and home office (SOHO) router. TP-Link as fixed four security vulnerabilities in the TL-R600VPN small and home office (SOHO) router that were reported by experts at Cisco Talos. The vulnerabilities are two remote code execution (RCE) flaws(CVE-2018-3950, CVE-2018-3951), a denial-of-service issue (CVE-2018-3948), and a server information disclosure bug (CVE-2018-394). The DOS and server information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2018
Hackers earned more than $1 million for zero-day exploits disclosed at the Tianfu Cup PWN hacking contest that took place on November 16-17 in Chengdu. Hackers earned more than $1 million for zero-day exploits disclosed at the Tianfu Cup PWN competition that took place on November 16-17 in Chengdu during the Tianfu Cup conference. According to organizers, hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2018
Malware researchers from Cybaze ZLab – Yoroi team have detected a new strain of malware that appears to be associated with a new wave of attacks carries out by Russia linked APT29 group. The researchers of Yoroi ZLab, on 16 November, accessed to a new APT29’s dangerous malware which seems to be involved in the recent […]
