Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2018
ICS-CERT warns of critical flaws in NetComm industrial routers

Security researcher has found two critical vulnerabilities in the industrial routers manufactured by the Australian company NetComm Wireless. Security researcher Aditya K. Sood has found two critical vulnerabilities in the industrial routers manufactured by the Australian company NetComm Wireless that can be exploited remotely to take control of affected devices. The affected models are NetComm 4G LTE […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2018
Faxploit – Critical flaws potentially exposes millions of HP OfficeJet Printers to hack

A vulnerability in HP OfficeJet all-in-one inkjet printer can be exploited by attackers to gain control of the printer and use it as entry point into the network environment. A critical vulnerability potentially exposes millions of HP OfficeJet printers to hack, according to the experts at Check Point the attackers only need to send a […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2018
Oracle warns of CVE-2018-3110 Critical Vulnerability in Oracle Database product, patch it now!

Last week Oracle disclosed a critical vulnerability in its Oracle Database product, the issue tracked as CVE-2018-3110 has received a CVSS score of 9.9, On Friday, Oracle released security patches to address a critical vulnerability affecting its Database product, the company is urging install them as soon as possible. The vulnerability resides in the Java VM component […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2018
Apple zero-day exposes macOS to Synthetic Mouse-Click attacks

Patrick Wardle, the popular white hat hacker, has discovered a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to carry out synthetic mouse-click attacks Patrick Wardle, the popular white hat hacker and chief research officer at Digita Security, has discovered a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to mimic mouse-clicks for kernel access. Wardle presented his discovery […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2018
DNS Hijacking targets Brazilian financial institutions

Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by carrying out DNS hijacking. Crooks are targeting DLink DSL modem routers in Brazil to redirect users to fake bank websites by changing the DNS settings. With this trick, cybercriminals steal login credentials for bank accounts, Radware researchers reported. The attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 175 – 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! ·      A malware paralyzed TSMC plants where also […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2018
Experts explained how to hack macs in enterprises through MDM

Researchers demonstrated how a sophisticated threat actor can hack a brand new Apple Mac computer in enterprise environments through MDM. A security duo composed by Jesse Endahl, CPO and CSO at macOS management firm Fleetsmith, and Max BĂ©langer, staff engineer at Dropbox, demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference how a persistent attacker could compromise […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2018
The analysis of the code reuse revealed many links between North Korea malware

Security researchers at Intezer and McAfee have conducted a joint investigation that allowed them to collect evidence that links malware families attributed to North Korean APT groups such as the notorious Lazarus Group and Group 123. The experts focused their analysis on the code reuse, past investigations revealed that some APT groups share portions of code […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2018
Expert devised a new WiFi hack that works on WPA/WPA2

The popular expert Jens ‘Atom’ Steube devised a new WiFi hack that allows cracking WiFi passwords of most modern routers. Jens ‘Atom’ Steube, the lead developer of the popular password-cracking tool Hashcat, has developed a new WiFi hacking technique that allows cracking WiFi passwords of most modern routers. Jens ‘Atom’ Steube, the lead developer of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2018
Social Mapper – Correlate social media profiles with facial recognition

Trustwave developed Social Mapper an Open Source Tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles across different social networks. Security experts at Trustwave have released Social Mapper, a new open-source tool that allows finding a person of interest across social media platform using facial recognition technology. The tool was developed to gather intelligence from […]