Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2015
Law enforcement arrested dozens people from Darkode crime forum

An international joint effort of law enforcement allowed the arrest of dozen people active on the popular Darkode crime forum. A joint operation run by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in Europe and Brazil have allowed the identification and the arrest of more than 60 people suspected of carrying out hacking crimes. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2015
Hacking Team Spyware uses a UEFI BIOS Rootkit to gain persistence

Documents leaked online after the Hacking Team hack revealed that the company used a UEFI BIOS rootkit to gain persistence for its spyware software. The recent data breach suffered by the surveillance firm Hacking Team is shocking the IT security industry, the hackers leaked company emails, source codes and contracts revealing uncomfortable truths. Security experts mainly […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2015
Hacking Team will be back to business soon

The Hacking Team CEO David Vincenzetti announced that the popular surveillance company will be back to business vert soon, but experts have many doubts. After the embarrassing data breach suffered by the Hacking Team, the surveillance company plans to rebuild the “empire”. The hackers likely haven’t stolen the entire intellectual property of the firm, which […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2015
Cloudminr Mining Service hacked, DB available online for 1 Bitcoin

According to TheHackerNews the Cloudminr.io Bitcoin Mining Service has been hacked, its database is available online for 1 Bitcoin. Colleagues at The Hacker News just reported that Bitcoin Cloud Mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked and the scaring news is that the entire database is available online for sale for 1 Bitcoin. The hackers have compromised the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2015
Hacking Team supported Italian Special Operations Group with BGP Routing Hijack

Documents leaked online after the Hacking Team hack revealed how the Italian firm supported the Italian Special Operations Group with BGP Routing Hijack. We are following day by day the evolution of the recent Hacking Team hack, the hackers posted online 400 GB of source code, company emails and documents, a treasure for hackers, cyber spies and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
Hacking Team Another Flash Zero-Day: CVE-2015-5122

Following the Hacking Team data breach, yet another Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability has been found actively exploited in-the-wild. Another Flash Zero-Day: CVE-2015-5122 Yet another Adobe Flash Player zero-day has been found actively exploited in-the-wild. Thanks to the breach of the HackingTeam’s private files, another Adobe Flash zero-day has been made publicly accessible and hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
A new Zero-Day Vulnerability arises from Hacking Team hack

Security Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a second Zero-Day Vulnerability that arises from Hacking Team cyber attack. Just Three days ago, Adobe released a new version of Flash to patch the zero-day vulnerability that was disclosed as part of the Hacking Team hack. Security experts at Trend Micro confirmed that the Adobe Flash vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 17 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Anonymous India hacked BSNL website and compromised more than 30 Million records Cisco Unified CDM platform open to cyber attacks Argentine finds messenger to shoot after e-vote vuln allegations […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2015
Three UK politicians hacked while using open WiFi networks

A team of experts hacked three UK politicians while they were using unsecured WiFi networks to demonstrate the risks they are daily exposed. Public Wi-Fi networks are dangerous places for our digital identity, we have explained several times the risks related to the connections to open WiFi hotspots. Security  experts have explained these risks to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2015
Wekby APT attacks leverage Hacking Team exploits

According to the experts at Volexity the Flash Player exploit has been leveraged in spear phishing campaign launched by the Wekby APT. As anticipated, several criminal gangs included the code for the exploitation of CVE-2015-5119 vulnerability in their exploit kits, let’s remember that the exploits code was disclosed as the result of the attack against the Hacking […]