Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2017
An Internet-Connected Medical Washer-Disinfector, the Miele’s model Professional PG 8528, is affected by a Web Server Directory Traversal. While the number of IoT devices continue to exponentially increase, the level of security of these smart objects is often not adequate end exposes users at risk of cyber attacks. The news of the say is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2017
How much costs a DDoS attack service? Kaspersky Lab published an analysis on the cost of a DDoS attack and services available in the black markets. The DDoS attacks continue to be a profitable business in the cyber criminal underground. Powering a DDoS attack against an organization is even cheaper, running an attack can cost […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2017
Trend Micro discovered the Chinese threat actor Winnti has been abusing GitHub service for command and control (C&C) communications. Security experts at Trend Micro continue to monitor the activities of the Chinese Winnti hacker group, this time the hackers have been abusing GitHub for command and control (C&C) communications. “Recently, the Winnti group, a threat actor with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2017
Findings of the MIMICS project conducted by Dragos Threat Operations Center show a malware posing as Siemens PLC application is targeting ICS worldwide. After the disclosure of the Stuxnet case, the security industry started looking at ICS malware with increasing attention. A malware that infects an industrial control system could cause serious damages and put in danger human lives. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2017
The recently patched CVE-2017-0022 Windows Zero-Day vulnerability has been exploited by threat actors behind the AdGholas malvertising campaign and Neutrino EK since July 2016. Microsoft has fixed several security flaws with the March 2017 Patch Tuesday updates. According to security experts at Trend Micro, the list of fixed vulnerabilities includes three flaws that had been exploited […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2017
US federal prosecutors speculate the involvement of North Korea in the cyber heist of $81 million from Bangladesh’s account at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The news was reported by The Wall Street Journal, prosecutors suspect the involvement of Chinese middlemen who helped the Government of Pyongyang to organize the cyber theft. In February 2016, unknown hackers transferred […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2017
The vulnerability allows any local user, such as “httpdusr” used to run web application, to escalate to Domain Administrator if the NAS is a domain member. Pasquale ‘sid’ Fiorillo from ISGroup (www.isgroup.biz), an Italian Security Company, and Guido ‘go’ Oricchio of PCego (www.pcego.com), a System Integrator, have just released a critical security advisory for any […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2017
Android Forums notified a data breach, according to the moderators at the site roughly 2.5 percent of users have been affected. Android Forums is the last victim of a data breach, roughly 2.5 percent of users have been affected. The moderators at the Android Forums confirmed they’ve been able to identify the alleged compromised accounts, in response […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2017
The threat group behind the Machete cyber espionage campaign first spotted in 2014 continues to target entities in Spanish-speaking countries. According to the researchers at security firm Cylance Threat actors behind the cyber espionage campaign dubbed Machete continue to target entities in Spanish-speaking countries. The Machete campaign was first uncovered by the researchers at Kaspersky in August 2014 and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2017
Hackers belonging to the Turkish Crime Family group threaten to remotely wipe hundreds of millions of iPhones unless Apple pays a ransom. Crooks are claiming to have over 627 millions of iCloud credentials and intend to wipe date from iPhones, iPads and Macs if the Apple does not pay $150,000 within two weeks. Members of […]
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