Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2017
Toast Overlay attacks, a Cloak and Dagger with No Permissions, fixed by Google

Google just fixed a high-severity Android vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-0752, that ties with the Toast Overlay attacks. Security researchers with Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, warned of a high-severity Android vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-0752, that ties with the “toast attack” overlay vulnerability. The experts reported that it is possible to abuse Android’s toast notification, a feature […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2017
Member of the ‘Crackas With Attitude’ who hacked US intel officials has been sentenced to 5 years in jail

A member of the hacker group ‘Crackas With Attitude’ who hacked US intel officials has been sentenced to 5 years in jail. A member of the dreaded hacking crew Crackas With Attitude has been sentenced to five years in federal prison. “Justin G. Liverman, aka “D3F4ULT”, 25, of Morehead City, pleaded guilty on January 6. Liverman admitted to being […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2017
Microsoft confirmed it won’t fix kernel issue that could be exploited to evade antivirus

A design flaw within the Windows kernel could be exploited by attackers to evade antivirus and stop them from recognizing malware. A design flaw within the Windows kernel is the root cause for antivirus stopping from recognizing malware, and the bad news is that Microsoft won’t fix it because the tech giant doesn’t consider it as a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2017
Experts observed the active exploitation of the CVE-2017-9805 Struts vulnerability

Hackers are exploiting in the wild a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Struts 2, tracked as CVE-2017-9805, that was patched a few days ago. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-9805 is related to the way Struts deserializes untrusted data, it affects all versions of Apache Struts since 2008, from Struts 2.5 to Struts 2.5.12. The experts warn that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2017
Hacker Interview – Jonturk 75 – JRB

Today I have the pleasure to interview Jonturk 75 one of the hackers that hit high profile targets, including the notorious hacker group OurMine. Jonturk 75 and the hacker group he takes part in have recently made the headlines news with a series of attacks against high profile targets. Following CNN and Reuters hacks they’ve recently defaced […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2017
DolphinAttack – Hackers control Siri, Google Now, Alexa voice assistants with ultrasound

The DolphinAttack technique allows hackers to control Siri, Google Now, Alexa and other voice assistants with commands in ultrasonic frequencies. A team of researchers from the Chinese Zhejiang University has demonstrated how to control several popular speech recognition systems using ultrasound. The attack technique was dubbed ‘DolphinAttack’, it was successfully tested against Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Google Now, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2017
PC-Wahl software used in Germany for vote counting lack of security

The European biggest hacker collective Chaos Computer Club demonstrated that PC-Wahl software used in Germany for vote counting is insecure. According to a study conducted by the hacker collective Chaos Computer Club (CCC), the software used in Germany for vote counting is insecure. The experts have found several vulnerabilities in the voting software adopted by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2017
Dragonfly 2.0: the sophisticated attack group is back with destructive purposes

While the first Dragonfly campaigns appear to have been a more reconnaissance phase, the Dragonfly 2.0 campaign seems to have destructive purposes. Symantec has spotted a new wave of cyber attacks against firms in the energy sector powered by the notorious Dragonfly group. The Dragonfly group, also known as Energetic Bear, has been active since at […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2017
Boffins found multiple flaws in Mobile Bootloaders using custom tool BootStomp

Boffins have discovered a series of code execution and denial of service flaws in the bootloaders of popular mobile platforms using custom tool BootStomp. A group of nine researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara researchers has discovered a number of code execution and denial of service flaw in the bootloaders of Android chipsets from six vendors. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2017
ShadowBrokers are back demanding nearly $4m and offering 2 dumps per month

The dreaded hacking group ShadowBrokers posted a new message, promising to deliver two data dumps a month as part its monthly dumps. The notorious group ShadowBrokers is back with announcing new interesting changes to their Dump Service. The hackers published a new message on the Steemit platform announcing new changed to their service. “Missing theshadowbrokers? If someone […]