Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2015
APT28 Russian hackers exploited two zero-day flaws in the wild

FireEye recently detected a new highly targeted attack run by APT28 exploiting two zero-day flaws to compromise an “international government entity”. Security experts at FireEye have recently detected a new cyber espionage campaign, dubbed “Operation RussianDoll,” operated by the Russian APT28 group. This time the hackers run highly targeted attack by exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities to target an “international […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2015
TheRealDeal black Marketplace Offers Zero-Day Exploits

A new deep web marketplace dubbed TheRealDeal has appeared and it is offering a platform for both sellers and buyers of the zero-day exploits. The anonymity ensured by the Dark Web and black markets it hosts is an element of attractive for cyber criminal and intelligence agencies. Black markets offer a wide range of illegal products and services, despite normal people believes that drugs and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2015
Safari cookie access vulnerability affects a billion iThings

A Safari iOS/OS X/Windows cookie access vulnerability (CVE-2015-1126) potentially affects a billion iThings devices, patch it as soon as possible. The security researcher Jouko Pynnönen at Finnish firm Klikki Oy, has discovered a since patched bug (CVE-2015-1126) that could potentially affect a billion Apple iDevices. The cross-domain vulnerability affects Safari’s file transfer URL schemes and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2015
Java – New vulnerabilities affects million applications

Oracle warned that a dozen of new Java security vulnerabilities could be exploitable remotely to gain access to a target application without login. Once again Java vulnerabilities are worrying the security community, a series of vulnerabilities could be exploitable remotely to gain access to a target application without authentication. Every application running on any of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2015
How to move YouTube comments from any video to another

An Egyptian Researcher discovered a flaw that allowed him to duplicate/copy any YouTube comments from any video to another video without user-interaction. The Egyptian colleague Ahmed Aboul-Ela has discovered a vulnerability in YouTube that could be exploited by attackers to move comments from any video to another without any user-interaction. Now imagine that you move the YouTube comment […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2015
In-flight Wi-Fi can be an open door for hackers

A report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warns that the FAA faces some serious cyber security issues for modern flights. Security experts for a long time suspected that in-flight Wi-fi could create an entry door for hackers and a new report issued by The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) describes the dungeon of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2015
Wikileaks released documents from Sony hack, the company condemned it

WikiLeaks on Thursday published a searchable database of more than 30,000 documents that were obtained by hackers in the cyber attack on Sony Pictures. WikiLeaks organization has leaked online a collection of documents stolen in the  Sony Pictures data breach, more than 30,000 files showing the inner workings of a “secretive” firm. WikiLeaks  published the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2015
MS15-034 flaw leaves over 70 million sites vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security experts worldwide have discovered that threat actors are exploiting the Microsoft Zero-Day vulnerability MS15-034 in cyber attacks. Security researchers at SANS Internet Storm Center revealed that the critical remote code execution vulnerability MS15-034 affecting the Windows HTTP protocol stack is being actively exploited in the wild. The experts explained that the MS15-034 flaw affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2015
Criminal crew Hellsing strikes back after attack by a rival APT group

The elite cyber crime group Hellsing strikes back after attack by the rival APT crew known as Naikon. This is the first documented case of APT-on-APT attack. What happens when an APT group running a cyber espionage campaign target a second distinct APT group? The events occurred last year, when a group involved in a cyber espionage campaign […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2015
Dell report revealed attacks on SCADA system are doubled

A recent report published by Dell revealed a 100 percent increase in the number of attacks on industrial control (SCADA) systems. The new Dell Annual Threat Report revealed that the number of attacks against supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems doubled in 2014 respect the previous year. Unfortunately, the majority of incidents occurred in SCADA systems is […]