Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2018
Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. The first data that emerged […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2018
Flaw in Western Digital My Cloud exposes the content to hackers

An authentication bypass vulnerability in Western Digital My Cloud NAS could allow hackers to access the content of the storage Researchers at security firm Securify have discovered an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Western Digital My Cloud platform that could be exploited by attackers to gain admin-level access to the device via an HTTP request. The flaw, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
NSO mobile Pegasus Spyware used in operations in 45 countries

A new report published by Citizen Lab revealed that the NSO Pegasus spyware was used against targets across 45 countries worldwide. A new investigation of the Citizen Lab revealed that the powerful Pegasus mobile spyware was used against targets across 45 countries around the world over the last two years. Pegasus is a surveillance malware developed by the Israeli surveillance NSO Group that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
A flaw in Alpine Linux could allow executing arbitrary code

Security researcher Max Justicz has discovered several flaws in the distribution Alpine Linux, including an arbitrary code execution.   Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution that is heavily used in containers, including Docker. Alpine Linux is based on musl libc and busybox, it is a tiny distro and is optimized to manage resources, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
Cracked Windows installations are serially infected with EternalBlue exploit code

According to Avira, hundreds of thousands of unpatched Windows systems are serially infected with EternalBlue exploit code. The EternalBlue, is the alleged NSA exploit that made the headlines with DOUBLEPULSAR in the WannaCry attack. The malicious code was leaked online by the Shadow Brokers hacking group that stole it from the arsenal of the NSA-linked Equation Group. ETERNALBLUE targets the Server […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
Amazon is investigating allegations that its staff is selling customer data

Amazon confirmed an ongoing investigation of the allegations that some of its personnel sold confidential customer data to third party companies. Amazon confirmed that it is investigating allegations that its staff sold customer data and other confidential information to third-party firms, particularly in China, a practice that violated the company policy. The news was first […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2018
New XBash malware combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms

Palo Alto Network researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as XBash, that combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new piece of malware, dubbed XBash piece that is targeting both Linux and Microsoft Windows servers. Xbash was developed using Python, then the authors converted into […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2018
One year later BlueBorne disclosure, over 2 Billion devices are still vulnerable

One year after the discovery of the BlueBorne Bluetooth vulnerabilities more than 2 billion devices are still vulnerable to attacks. In September 2017, experts with Armis Labs devised a new attack technique, dubbed BlueBorne, aimed at mobile, desktop and IoT devices that use Bluetooth.  The BlueBorne attack exposes devices to a new remote attack, even without […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2018
Google Android team found high severity flaw in Honeywell Android-based handheld computers

Experts at the Google Android team have discovered high severity privilege escalation vulnerability in some of Honeywell Android-based handheld computers. Security experts from the Google Android team have discovered a high severity privilege escalation vulnerability in some of Honeywell Android-based handheld computers that could be exploited by an attacker to gain elevated privileges. According to the vendor, Honeywell handheld computers […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2018
EOSBet Gambling application hacked, crooks stole $200,000 worth of EOS

The gambling application EOSBet was affected by a vulnerability in its smart contract system that has been exploited by attackers to steal $200,000 worth of EOS. The security breach was first reported by the member “thbourlove” of the EOSBet Reddit community that shared the code used to exploit the flaw. After seeing the exploit code, the EOSBet’s official Reddit account […]