Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2015
The rise of the Japanese Cybercrime Underground

Researchers at Trend Micro have issued a new report on the Japanese Cybercrime Underground, a growing criminal community with his characteristics. Cybercrime underground is a growing and prolific industry that knows no crisis as demonstrated by the numerous reports issued by principal security companies and law enforcement. In the past we have analyzed criminal most […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2015
USB Killer 2.0 – How to easily burn a PC with a USB device

In March I presented the PoC of a computer-frying Killer USB pendrive designed by the Russian researcher, now the USB Killer 2.0 is arrived! Do you remember the killer USB? In March I presented the proof-of-concept computer-frying Killer USB pendrive designed by the Russian researcher with the pseudonym “Dark Purple.” Dark Purple works for a company that develops and manufactures electronic components, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2015
European Aviation Safety Agency – Airplane hacking is reality

European Aviation Safety Agency European Aviation confirmed the concerns about the Airplane hacking. Hackers could easily infiltrate critical systems. On October 8, 2015, the director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, Patrick Ky revealed he has hired consultant, which is also a commercial pilot, who was able to exploit vulnerabilities in the Aircraft Communications Addressing […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2015
China arrested hackers responding to a US Government request

For the first time, hackers have been arrested in China by law enforcement at the behest of the US government. Is it true cooperation? It is probably the first time that Chinese authorities have arrested hackers in China following a request of the US Government. Two weeks, before the visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2015
The Dark web – Why the hidden part of the web is even more dangerous?

Cyber Threat Summit 2015 – Study on criminal activities in the dark web.  “The Dark web – Why the hidden part of the web is even more dangerous?” Also, this year I have participated as a speaker to the Cyber Threat Summit 2015 held in Dublid, an event aimed at senior CISO level delegates and senior executives […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2015
The Dow Jones firm confirmed data breach of 3,500 Users

The Dow Jones firm confirmed to have suffered a data breach, payment card and contact info for less than 3,500 users have been exposed. At the end of the last week, the CEO of Dow Jones & Co disclosed a data breach affecting 3,500 people in a letter to customers. Dow Jones is a media company owned […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2015
Cost of Breaking SHA-1 decreases due to a new Collision Attack

A group of researchers has demonstrated that the cost of breaking the SHA-1 hash algorithm is lower than previously estimated. The SHA-1 is still one of the most used cryptographic hash algorithm, but bad news for its supporters, a New Collision Attack Lowers Cost of Breaking it. The news is worrying, the cost and time […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2015
Netgear Router Exploit in the wild

A security researcher has discovered a serious vulnerability in Netgear router that could be exploited by attackers to change the DNS settings. Once again the NetGear Routers are in the headlines for a serious security issue, nearly 500o devices are exposed to DNS Monitoring. The security researcher Joe Giron has discovered a serious vulnerability in Netgear router […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2015
Brute-Force amplification attacks on WordPress rely on XML-RPC

Security experts at Sucuri have uncovered threat actors abusing an XML-RPC method to run Brute-Force amplification attacks on WordPress websites. According to the experts at security firm Sucuri, threat actors are exploiting the XML-RPC protocol implemented by WordPress and other popular content management systems to run brute-force amplification attacks. The XML-RPC protocol allows users to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2015
Time to update your Veeam to fix a VeeamVixProxy Vulnerability

The vulnerability allows a local unprivileged user of a Windows guest to gain Local and/or Domain Administrator access when VeeamVixProxy is active, the de-facto default in VMWare and Hyper-V environments. Pasquale `sid` Fiorillo, Francesco `ascii` Ongaro from ISGroup, an Italian Security firm, and Antonio `s4tan` Parata from ush team, have just released a critical security […]