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Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2016

Zero day broker firm Zerodium has tripled iOS exploit bounty to $1.5M

The notorious zero-day broker company Zerodium has raised the value for a remote IOS jailbreak that reached $1.5 million. The popular zero-day broker Zerodium, which is specialized in Buys and Sells zero-day exploits, has tripled the bug bounty for a remote iOS 10 exploit. The company is willing to pay a jailbreak vulnerability to US$1.5 million. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2016

CVE-2016-6406 – CISCO reported a critical flaw in email security appliances (ESA)

Cisco issued a security advisory about a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-6406, affecting the Email Security Appliance Internal Testing Interface. Cisco Systems reported the existence a vulnerability (CVE-2016-6406) in the email security appliances that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain complete control of the security solution. The vulnerability is related the Cisco IronPort AsyncOS […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2016

CatchApp system can spy on WhatsApp encrypted communications from a backpack

The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale the system called CatchApp that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications. The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale a system that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications from mobile devices within close proximity of a hidden Wi-Fi hacking device in a backpack. The news has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2016

Russian hackers spy on Citizen Journalists investigating on Flight MH17 Crash

Researchers at the Bellingcat agency have been hit with spear phishing attacks and account takeover attempts while investigating flight MH17 crash. Once again cyber security experts warn of a new hacking campaign that this time is targeting Citizen Journalists reporting the crash of the flight MH17 of the Malaysian Airlines. According to the intelligence firm […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2016

150,000 IoT Devices behind the 1Tbps DDoS attack on OVH

The hosting provider OVH continues to face massive DDoS attacks launched by a botnet composed at least of 150000 IoT devices. Last week, the hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack, likely the largest one ever seen. The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter sharing an image that lists the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2016

Fancy Bear Hackers use a new Mac Trojan against aerospace industry

Researchers at Palo Alto spotted a new campaign of the Russian Fancy Bear APT using a new Mac OS X Trojan against companies in the aerospace industry. In the last weeks, we have discussed a lot about a string of attacks that targeted the US Democratic National Committee (DNC), security experts collected evidence of the involvement […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2016

Microsoft removed Windows Journal from its OSs due to security flaws

Microsoft encourages Windows users to remove the Windows Journal application by following the steps found in Microsoft update KB3161102. Microsoft has removed the Windows Journal application from its OSs due to the presence of multiple security flaws that can be exploited by hackers through specially crafted Journal files (.jnt) which are used to store notes […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2016

The Libyan Scorpions group is behind a cyber espionage campaign in Lybia

The Cyberkov Security Incident Response team spotted a cyber espionage campaign in Lybia conducted by a group named Libyan Scorpions. Thinking of Libya we have in mind a non-stable political country where various forces fight for the control of strategic territories and oil productions. but only a few experts know about cyber malicious activities in the area. Evidently, something […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2016

A nation-state actor is testing methods for a massive takedown of the Internet

According to the popular cyber security experts an unknown nation state actor may be running tests for taking down the entire internet infrastructure. What happens if someone shuts down the Internet? Is it possible? Our society heavily depends on technology and the Internet is the privileged vector of the information today. Blocking the Internet could […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2016

Security firm Sucuri analyzed tens of thousands of compromised websites

Security firm Sucuri published a detailed study, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, on compromised websites on the Internet. According to the security expert Daniel Cid from Sucuri, at least 15,769 WordPress websites have been compromised this year. Sucuri has published a report, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, related compromised websites on the web. The […]

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Zero day broker firm Zerodium has tripled iOS exploit bounty to $1.5M

CVE-2016-6406 – CISCO reported a critical flaw in email security appliances (ESA)

CatchApp system can spy on WhatsApp encrypted communications from a backpack

Russian hackers spy on Citizen Journalists investigating on Flight MH17 Crash

150,000 IoT Devices behind the 1Tbps DDoS attack on OVH

Fancy Bear Hackers use a new Mac Trojan against aerospace industry

Microsoft removed Windows Journal from its OSs due to security flaws

The Libyan Scorpions group is behind a cyber espionage campaign in Lybia

A nation-state actor is testing methods for a massive takedown of the Internet

Security firm Sucuri analyzed tens of thousands of compromised websites

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