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Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2017
Some websites use a simple trick to keep their cryptocurrency miners scripts running in the background even when the user has closed the browser window. Website administrators and crooks are looking with an increasing interest at JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miners due to rapid increase in cryptocurrency prices. These scripts exploit the CPU power of their visitor’s PC to mine Bitcoin […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2017
A federal judge in the California court has ruled that cryptocurrency exchange portal Coinbase must hand over details of over 14,000 users to the US IRS. In November 2016, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has filed a motion asking the US Federal Court of Northern California to force the US-based cryptocurrency exchange portal to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · A second variant of the new Cryptomix Ransomware released in a few days · Cash Converters suffered a data breach, users of the old webshop are at risk · De-authentication attack on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2017
An Italian researcher from the security firm InTheCyber devised an attack technique to create self-replicating malware hidden in MS Word documents. A few weeks ago, a security researcher reported a flaw that affects all versions of Microsoft Office that could be exploited by attackers to spread macro-based self-replicating malware. Microsoft promptly implemented a security mechanism in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2017
US Department of Justice charged the Iranian computer expert Behzad Mesri of ‘Games of Thrones’ HBO Hack, he also worked with the Iranian Military. The United States charged the Iranian computer expert Behzad Mesri of ‘Games of Thrones‘ HBO Hack. On Tuesday, the man was charged with stealing scripts and plot summaries for ‘Games of Thrones’. The Manhattan US attorney Joon Kim […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2017
How much is the return on investment in the cybercriminal underground? Let’s dig a report recently published by threat intelligence firm Recorded Future to find the answer. Cybercrime is a profitable business and the returns of investments can be enormous, this is what emerged from another interesting research of the threat intelligence firm Recorded Future. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2017
Security experts spotted a new malware dubbed Ordinypt, it is a wiper disguised as ransomware that currently only targets German users The malware researcher Michael Gillespie first reported a new strain of malware called Ordinypt that is currently targeting German users, but unfortunately instead of encrypting users’ files, the malware intentionally destroy them. Tweets by demonslay335 Early this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2017
The Google researcher Andrey Konovalov discovered several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel USB subsystem using the Google Syzkaller fuzzer. Google researcher Andrey Konovalov has discovered many security vulnerabilities in Linux USB Subsystem. The expert used a fuzzing tool developed by Google dubbed Syzkaller fuzzer, he discovered tens of vulnerabilities, including 22 security flaws. Konovalov published a detailed analysis of 14 vulnerabilities that have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2017
A group of researchers has conducted a rigorous comprehensive characterization of this DDoS attacks and of countermeasures to mitigate the associated risks. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks have been around about as long as computers have been network connected. A website’s purpose is to accept connections from the Internet and return information. A bad actor can take […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2017
UK Government blamed North Korea for the WannaCry attack that affected a third of English hospitals. “This attack, we believe quite strongly that it came from a foreign state,” Ben Wallace, a junior minister for security, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “North Korea was the state that we believe was involved in this worldwide attack,” […]
