Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2015
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. ZigBee-sniffing drone used to map online Internet of Things RollJam, a $30 device to unlock the majority of car doors Tesla tech top dog downs slug of Scotch, increases […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2015
According to two former employees the Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky has faked malware to harm competitors and cause false positive in their solutions. Two former employees, who requested anonymity, revealed that Kaspersky Lab tried to trick antivirus solutions of its competitors into flagging more false positives. Two anonymous former Kaspersky Lab employees told Reuters that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2015
Microsoft announced in the Tuesday’s bulletin that crooks have been exploiting a vulnerability that allows to execute malicious code using booby-trapped USB Microsoft announced in the last Tuesday’s bulletin that crooks have been exploiting a vulnerability that allows to execute malicious code using booby-trapped USB. The vulnerability affects all supported versions of Windows OS as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2015
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab recently observed a big wave of malicious VBE files targeting Brazilian users to distribute Financial Trojan. Recently security experts have seen old tricks rising from the dead (like for example word/excel macros attachment in e-mails) and malicious VBE files are being spread via email targeting Brazilian users. These VBE files […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2015
Two security experts at the last Def Con hacking conference have demonstrated how Internal LTE/3G modems can be hacked to help malware survive OS reinstalls Many users totally ignore that LTE/3G modems built into new business laptops and tablets have a dedicated processor and operating system that could be exploited by threat actors to maintain persistent […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2015
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. Hacking Industrial Ethernet Switches to take over nuclear plants Microsoft Windows 10 spies on you by default Operation Potao – hackers used a trojanized version of TrueCrypt Mt Goxs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2015
Two researchers demonstrated how to compromise corporate networks by hacking the Windows Server Update Services and serve malware instead security patches. Security researchers from Context security firm have discovered a technique to serve malware exploiting the Windows update mechanism. The researchers are able to exploit insecurely configured implementations of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for an enterprise […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2015
Mozilla released the version 39.0.3 Firefox to patch a critical 0-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. A zero-day vulnerability in Mozilla FireFox was reported on Wednesday to the company. A user noticed that an ad displayed on a Russian news website was serving an a malicious code. The exploit discovered by the user […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2015
A security researcher developed an improved version of the Thunderstrike rootkit that uses Thunderbolt accessories to infect the Mac firmware. Earlier this year, security expert Trammell Hudson presented a proof-of-concept firmware called Thunderstrike. Thunderstrike is a hacking technique to infect Apple’s Mac PCs with EFI Bootkit through the Thunderbolt port. The expert demonstrated how to compromise […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2015
The CTB-Locker Ransomware is Back with a Vengeance, the security experts noticed that bad actors Leveraging the Release of Windows 10 as an Attack Vector. A false sense of hope that the presence, or rather the active spread, of crypto-ransomware in-the-wild has begun to slowly die out has been quickly diminished thanks to the group behind the CTB-Locker ransomware. While […]
