Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2015
Karma Police, how GCHQ tried to track every visible user on Internet

A new collection of GCHQ’s documents published by The Intercept reveals how the British Agency tried to track Web visits of “every visible user on Internet” A new revelation made by The Intercept confirms that the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has conducted  a massive online surveillance starting from the 2007. The documents accessed by The Intercept detailed an operation […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2015
Lenovo caught with pre-installed tracking application for the third time

Michael Horowitz from Computerworld discovered an application called “Lenovo Customer Feedback Program 64,” which is used to gather customers feedback data. Once, two, three … this is the third time that security experts discover a spyware pre-installed on Lenovo laptops and workstations, and also in this case without the knowledge of its millions of users. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2015
Naikon APT Group backed by the Chinese PLA Unit 78020

According to a new report the popular Naikon APT group is actually backed by China’s PLA Unit 78020, a firm traced it through online activity. Ge Xing, also known as “GreenSky27,” is the name of an alleged member of the People’s Liberation Army unit 78020, a group of Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The man was identified […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2015
XCodeGhost Attack – Is Apple’s Biggest Hack Ever linked to the US Intelligence?

Rumors on the Internet are linking the attack based in XcodeGhost to operations conducted by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). A few days ago principal security firm reported the first major cyber attack on the official Apple App Store, thousands of legitimate applications were infected by the XCodeGhost Malware. Apple announced it is cleaning up the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2015
Data breaches, stolen data and their sale in the Dark Web

Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Trend Micro published a report that explains the dynamics triggered by data breaches, following data from the incidents to their offer in the Dark Web. Stolen data is a precious commodity […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2015
OPM stolen data includes 5.6 Million Fingerprints

According to the a statement by OPM Press Secretary Sam Schumach on Background Investigations Incident OPM breach included 5.6 Million Fingerprints. The press secretary of the Office of Personnel Management, Sam Schumach, announced that the data breach suffered by the OPM exposed approximately 5.6 million sets of fingerprints belonging to federal employees, contractors, and other members of the staff. In […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2015
China spies on airline passengers with IMSI-catchers

The popular expert John McAfee claims passengers with four Chinese airlines are spied with the IMSI-catchers technology by the Government of Beijing. The former owner of McAfee security firm, John McAfee was always known to have made some controversial comments in the IT industry, but also to have good sources that let him get precious […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2015
Targeted attacks on 4Chan and 8Chan exploited bot code in Imgur

Recently a serious vulnerability was discovered in the Imgur service that allowed the injection of malicious code into an image link on the popular website. Is your website popular? Great you are a privileged target for crooks, just yesterday I reported the last malvertising campaign that hit Forbes and today I decide to present a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2015
Access Private Photos and Contacts Without a Passcode on iOS 9 devices

A hacker has found a way to access images and contacts stored on Apple iOS 9 devices even if they are protected with a passcode or Touch ID. A few hours ago I have posted the news on the decision of the Security firm Zerodium to pay a 1 Million Dollars prize for zero-day exploits and jailbreak […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2015
Find a zero-day exploit to hack IOS 9 and win a $1m prize

Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds zero-day flaws in iOS 9, and you can imagine the motivation. Zerodium is an Exploit trader and it’s offering a million dollar prize to any person that finds unknown, unpatched bug in iOS 9 with the main purpose to […]