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Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2016

SWIFT announced that a second bank was a victim of cyber heist

The SWIFT announced that a second commercial bank was a victim of a cyber heist, the crime appears to be part of a broad online attack on global banking. A second malware-based attack hit the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system. The news was spread by the SWIFT on Thursday, the attack has many similarities with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2016

A Kernel backdoor affects gadgets shipped by a popular Chinese ARM maker

Processors manufactured by the Chinese ARM maker Allwinner are affected by a kernel backdoor and are present is several models of low-cost devices. In the security community is circulating the news about the presence of a backdoor in the gadgets shipped by the popular Chinese ARM maker Allwinner. Processors manufactured by the company are present […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2016

Pawn Storm hackers hit the German Christian Democratic Union party

Researchers at Trend Micro discovered that Pawn Storm threat actor targeted the political party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Christian Democratic Union. Security experts follow a long time the operations of the Russian-linked Pawn Storm cyber spies, aka APT 28, Sednit, Sofacy, Fancy Bear and Tsar Team. In October 2014, security experts at Trend Micro spotted a cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2016

Flawed 7-Zip compression tool opens systems to hack.Update it now!

Recently security experts at Cisco Talos have discovered multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in 7-Zip that open users to cyber attacks. According to the Cisco security researcher Jaeson Schultz, multiple flaws in the 7-Zip compression tool could be exploited by hackers to gain the complete control on the target machine running the popular software. “Recently Cisco Talos has […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2016

Bad actors used a Windows zero-day in financial attacks

In March 2016 experts from FireEye spotted a malicious campaign conducted by a financially motivated threat actor that leveraged on a zero-day exploit. According to security experts at FireEye, a sophisticated criminal organization targeted more than 100 organizations in North America. Most of the victims are in the retail, hospitality and restaurant sectors. Threat actor […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2016

Old flaw exposes SAP BUSINESS Applications across the world

Security experts collected evidence that up to 36 global organizations have been hacked via exploits against an old flaw in SAP Business Applications A five-year-old flaw in SAP software is threatening business worldwide, at least 36 global organizations have been hacked via exploits used to trigger a vulnerability in SAP Business Applications. The flaw resides on […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2016

Facebook Capture The Flag is now open source. Learn to hack!

Facebook hopes to make security education easier for students with the release of its Capture the Flag platform to open source on GitHub! Are you interested in testing your hacking abilities? Facebook is offering a secure opportunity for you by opening it Capture The Flag (CTF) platform to test hacking skills in a legally safe environment […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2016

The ImageMagick flaw is being exploited in the wild

The recently discovered ImageMagick critical vulnerability (CVE-2016-3714) is being exploited in the wild for reconnaissance. The security researcher John Graham-Cumming from CloudFlare asserts that his firm recently discovered a critical vulnerability, code named CVE-2016-3714, in the popular image manipulation software, ImageMagick. The flaw could be exploited by hackers to take over websites running the widely used […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2016

Seoul blames North Korea for hacking a South Korean defense contractor

Is the North Korea behind the hack of a South Korean defense contractor? The officials announced an investigation into the security incident. There is a constant tension between South Korea and the North, now the Government of Seoul is accusing Pyongyang for a cyber attack that in April last hit a navy defence contractor, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2016

CVE-2016-4117 Adobe Flash Zero-Day is being exploited in the wild

CVE-2016-4117 is a zero-day vulnerability affecting the Adobe Flash Player that is being exploited to launch malware-based attacks in the wild. According to Adobe, a new zero-day vulnerability in the Flash Player software is being exploited in cyber attacks in the wild, and the worrisome new is that it will not be patched until May 12th. […]

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SWIFT announced that a second bank was a victim of cyber heist

A Kernel backdoor affects gadgets shipped by a popular Chinese ARM maker

Pawn Storm hackers hit the German Christian Democratic Union party

Flawed 7-Zip compression tool opens systems to hack.Update it now!

Bad actors used a Windows zero-day in financial attacks

Old flaw exposes SAP BUSINESS Applications across the world

Facebook Capture The Flag is now open source. Learn to hack!

The ImageMagick flaw is being exploited in the wild

Seoul blames North Korea for hacking a South Korean defense contractor

CVE-2016-4117 Adobe Flash Zero-Day is being exploited in the wild

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