Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
According to a new report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) almost any new weapon systems in the arsenal of the Pentagon is vulnerable to hack. The new generation of weapon systems developed by the Pentagon is heavily computerized and for this reason more exposed to cyber attacks. According to a new 50-page report […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
A Windows zero-day flaw addressed by Microsoft with its latest Patch Tuesday updates is exploited by an APT group in attacks aimed at entities in the Middle East. The Windows zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-8453 is a privilege escalation flaw that was exploited by an APT group in attacks against entities in the Middle East. The flaw, tracked as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
Hackers can compromise your WhatsApp account by tricking you into answering a video call, the company fixed the flaw in September. WhatsApp has addressed a vulnerability in the mobile applications that could have been exploited by attackers to crash victims instant messaging app simply by placing a call. The vulnerability is a memory heap overflow […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
Millions of Xiongmai video surveillance devices can be easily hacked via cloud feature, a gift for APT groups and cyber crime syndicates Security experts from security firm SEC Consult have identified over 100 companies that buy and re-brand video surveillance equipment (surveillance cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs), and network video recorders (NVRs)) manufactured by the Chinese […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2018
Security researchers who devised last year the Key Reinstallation Attack, aka KRACK attack, have disclosed new variants of the attack. Security researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens who devised last year the Key Reinstallation Attack against WPA, aka KRACK attack, have disclosed new variants of the attack. Last year, boffins discovered several key management flaws in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2018
Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted an interesting study about the technique adopted by crooks to infiltrate company emails, so-called BEC scam. According to the FBI, the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. Business email compromise (BEC) and email account […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2018
Security experts discovered several vulnerabilities in WECON’s PI Studio HMI software, the company has verified the issues but has not yet released patches. Researchers Mat Powell and Natnael Samson discovered several vulnerabilities in WECON’s PI Studio HMI software, a software widely used in critical manufacturing, energy, metallurgy, chemical, and water and wastewater sectors. Both experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2018
Experts from Tenable Research have devised a new attack technique to fully compromise MikroTik Routers. MikroTik routers continue to be under attack, and the situation is getting worse because of the availability of a new PoC code. The new attack technique discovered by experts at Tenable Research could be exploited by remote attackers to execute […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2018
Researchers from Kaspersky Lab collected evidence that demonstrates overlaps between the activity of Russian APT groups Turla and Sofacy. In March, during the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit held in Cancun, Kurt Baumgartner, Kaspersky principal security researcher, revealed the activity associated with Sofacy APT group appears to overlap with campaigns conducted by other cyber espionage groups. Baumgartner […]
