Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2017
The recent global outbreak of the “NotPetya” malware has some very curious features that have left security officials puzzled. Despite the press coverage, NotPetya is not really a ransomware attack to hold your data hostage. It’s a killbot. Several information security specialists have pointed a finger directly at Moscow; citing circumstantial evidence the source of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2017
The FBI hacked the system of a dark web user who tried to purchase a mail bomb from an undercover investigator in the US. According to a plea agreement, filed on April 28, 2017, Clinton Scott Bass of Georgia (US) tried in a first time to purchase a car bomb. The man, who was using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2017
NATO attributed the massive NotPetya attack to a ‘state actor,’ NotPetya and WannaCry Call for a Joint Response from International Community. According to NATO CCD COE, the recent massive attack based on NotPetya ransomware was powered by a “state actor.” The malware infected over 12,000 devices in around 65 countries, the malicious code hit major […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2017
Security experts at Sucuri have discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in WP Statistics, one of the most popular WordPress plugins. Security experts at Sucuri have discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability in WP Statistics, one of the most popular WordPress plugins, that is currently installed on over 300,000 websites. The SQL Injection vulnerability in WP Statistics could be exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2017
WikiLeaks released a new batch of documents that detail the CIA tool OutlawCountry used to remotely spy on computers running Linux operating systems. WikiLeaks has released a new batch of documents from the Vault 7 leak that details a CIA tool, dubbed OutlawCountry, used by the agency to remotely spy on computers running Linux operating systems. According to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2017
The security researcher Elad Erez developed Eternal Blues, a free EternalBlue vulnerability scanner that could be used to assess networks. Now systems administrators and hackers have a new free tool, dubbed Eternal Blues, to scan networks looking at computers vulnerable to the NSA EternalBlue exploit. EternalBlue is one of the hacking tools that the ShadowBrokers hacker group stolen to the NSA-linked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2017
Experts at CISCO discovered severe remote code execution vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS Software while conducting internal testing. Cisco warned users of serious vulnerabilities in IOS software that can be exploited by authenticated, remote attackers for code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Experts at CISCO discovered the vulnerabilities while conducting internal testing. “The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of Cisco IOS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2017
Microsoft is warning sysadmins to check their Azure Active Directory Connect installs and patch them against an important Privilege Escalation flaw. Microsoft fixed an important privilege escalation vulnerability in Azure Active Directory (AD) Connect, tracked as CVE-2017-8613, that can be exploited by attackers to hijack the accounts of privileged users. Azure Active Directory Connect allows organizations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2017
According to the researchers, the Petya variant (NotPetya) used in the massive attack is a wiper disguised by a ransomware. In these hours the massive global attack based on Petya variant made the headlines, computers in many countries were infected, including Russia, Ukraine, France, India and the US. A new analysis conducted on the ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2017
Shadow Brokers has sent out the first round of exploits to the subscribers of its service, the hackers also threaten to dox former NSA hacker. In May the notorious Shadow Brokers group announced the launch of a monthly subscription model for its data dumps, 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions goes for $21,000 per month. The group claimed […]
