Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2017
Oracle patch update for April 2017 fixed a record number of vulnerabilities, including Apache Struts and Shadow Brokers exploits. Oracle has released security updates to fix flaws in its product, including Apache Struts and a Solaris exploit included in a dump leaked by the Shadow Brokers hackers and containing NSA documents and hacking tools. The Oracle patch update […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2017
A critical vulnerability affects the Drupal References module that is used by hundreds of thousands of websites using the popular CMS. The Drupal security team has discovered a critical vulnerability in a third-party module named References. The Drupal team published a Security advisory on April 12 informing its users of the critical flaw. The flaw has a huge impact on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2017
The Chinese security Xudong Zheng is warning of Homograph Phishing Attacks are “almost impossible to detect” also to experts. The Chinese security researcher Xudong Zheng has devised a phishing technique that is “almost impossible to detect.” Hackers can exploit a known vulnerability in the popular web browsers Chrome, Firefox and Opera to display to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2017
It started quietly as a probability not a reality. Now within months cyberwarfare has become a reality plausible as the air we breathe. The revelation of governments hacking units has brought light for a new domain of conflict: Cyberwarfare. Once a secret these government agencies were public revealed like the Equation Group as well as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2017
The Security expert David Routin (@Rewt_1) has detailed a step by step procedure to exploit the recently patched cve-2017-0199 vulnerability exploited in Windows attacks in the wild. Introduction Since several days the security community has been informed thanks to FireEye publication of different malware campaigns (Dridex…) leveraging the CVE-2017-0199. Several other publications were related to this vulnerability but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2017
The failure of the missile launch made the North Korea may have been thwarted by a cyber attack powered by the US Cyber Command. The crisis between the US and North Korea is increasing, Donald Trump warns his military may ‘have no choice’ to strike the rogue state. According to The Sun, US cyber soldiers may have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2017
The Callisto APT Group borrowed the source code leaked by hackers that broke into Hacking Team network. According to F-Secure Labs, The Callisto APT Group used the HackingTeam leaked surveillance software to gather intelligence on foreign and security policy in eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. The Callisto APT group targeted government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2017
Security experts discovered vulnerabilities in the Bosch Drivelog Connector dongle that could be exploited by hackers to stop the engine. Security Researchers at automotive cybersecurity firm Argus discovered vulnerabilities in Bosch Drivelog Connect solution that can be exploited by hackers to inject malicious messages into a vehicle’s CAN bus. The Bosch Drivelog Connect is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html · Millions of mobile phones and laptops potentially exposed to attack leveraging baseband zero-days · ATMitch – […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2017
Facebook disrupted an international spam campaign leveraging on bogus accounts used to create “likes” and bogus comments. The security team at Facebook has disrupted an international spam operation after a six months investigation. The company has neutralized a coordinated campaign that was leveraging on bogus accounts used to create inauthentic likes and comments. “Today we are taking another […]
