Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2018
Iran-linked group TEMP.Zagros now targets Asia and Middle East regions

Experts at FireEye uncovered a new massive phishing campaign conducted by TEMP.Zagros group targeting Asia and Middle East regions from January 2018 to March 2018. Iranian hackers are one of the most active in this period, researchers at FireEye uncovered a new massive phishing campaign targeting Asia and Middle East regions from January 2018 to March 2018. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2018
Experts discovered remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in MikroTik RouterOS

Security experts at Core Security have disclosed the details of a buffer overflow vulnerability that affects MikroTik RouterOS in versions prior to the latest 6.41.3. MikroTik is a Latvian vendor that produce routers used by many telco companies worldwide that run RouterOS Linux-based operating system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7445, could be exploited by a remote attacker with […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2018
The Book : Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web

My new book, titled ‘Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web’ is available online, enjoy it. It’s a pleasure and an honor for me to announce the availability of my book “Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web“ Kindle Edition — Paper Copy What is the Deep Web and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2018
Hackers tried to cause a blast at a Saudi petrochemical plant

A new cyber attack against a Saudi petrochemical plant made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure in August. Do you remember the powerful cyber attack that in 2012 hit computers at Saudi Aramco? A new cyber attack against a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure in August. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2018
VMware addresses a DoS flaw in Workstation and Fusion products

VMware has addressed a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-6957, in its Workstation 12.x and 14.x and Fusion 10.1.1. and 10.x on OS X products. The affected VMware solutions can be attacked by opening a large number of VNC sessions. The DoS vulnerability was discovered by Lilith Wyatt of Cisco Talos, the flaw could be exploited on Workstation […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2018
Chinese APT Group TEMP.Periscope targets US Engineering and Maritime Industries

The China-linked APT group Leviathan. aka TEMP.Periscope, has increased the attacks on engineering and maritime entities over the past months. Past attacks conducted by the group aimed at targets connected to South China Sea issues, most of them were research institutes, academic organizations, and private firms in the United States. The group has also targeted professional/consulting services, high-tech industry, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2018
Hackers awarded $267,000 at Pwn2Own 2018, was far less than in the past editions

At Pwn2Own 2018 the hackers received a total of $267,000, it was far less than in the past editions, but the quality of research was amazing. The popular hacking competition Pwn2Own is concluded, let’s see how much hackers earned and which applications they have successfully pwned. White hat hackers have earned a total of $267,000 at […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2018
Popular Hacker Adrian Lamo, known for the case Chelsea Manning, is dead

The popular Hacker Adrian Lamo died at 37 age, the coroner confirmed his death, but the circumstances of his passing are still unknown. The popular hacker Adrian Lamo has died at 37, he is known for hacking a number of companies, including The New York Times in 2002., and turning the whistleblower Chelsea Manning into the FBI. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2018
Hackers can elevate privileges by hacking into popular text editors

Following recent string of attacks that exploit flawed plugins, researchers at SafeBreach examined 6 popular extensible text editors for unix systems. Most of the modern text editors allow users to extend their functionalities by using third-party plugins, in this way they are enlarging their attack surface. Third-party plugins could be affected by vulnerabilities that could […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2018
Mossack Fonseca law firm shuts down operations 2 years after Panama Papers

News of the day is that the Mossack Fonseca law firm would shut down operations due to the reputational damage caused by the Panama Papers security breach. The Panama Papers is a huge trove of strictly confidential documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that was leaked online on April 3, 2016. The Panama Leaks were acquired […]