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Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2018
Novidade, a new Exploit Kit is targeting SOHO Routers

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new exploit kit, dubbed Novidade (“novelty” in Portuguese), that is targeting SOHO routers to compromise the devices connected to the network equipment. The Novidade exploit kit leverages cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to change the Domain Name System (DNS) settings of SOHO routers and redirect traffic from the connected […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2018
Seedworm APT Group targeted more than 130 victims in 30 organizations since Sept

‘ The Seedworm APT Group has targeted more than 130 victims in 30 organizations since September including NGOs, oil and gas, and telecom businesses. According to a new research conducted from Symantec’s DeepSight Managed Adversary and ThreatIntelligence (MATI) team, the Seedworm APT group, aka MuddyWater, is rapidly evolving and extended its targets to the telecom, IT […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2018
Google will shut down consumer version of Google+ earlier due to a bug

Google announced it will close the consumer version of Google+ before than originally planned due to the discovery of a new security flaw. Google will close the consumer version of Google+ in April, four months earlier than planned. According to G Suite product management vice president David Thacker. the company will maintain only a version designed […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 10, 2018
A new Mac malware combines a backdoor and a crypto-miner

Experts from Malwarebytes discovered a new strain of Mac malware, tracked as DarthMiner, that is a combination of two open-source programs.  Experts from Malwarebytes discovered a new piece of Mac malware, tracked as DarthMiner, that is the combination of two open source tools. The malware is distributed through Adobe Zii, an application supposedly helps in the piracy […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 10, 2018
Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS

The British teenager George Duke-Cohan (19) has been sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and carrying out DDoS attacks.A Cohan was arrested in August by the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA), the teenager, aka “7R1D3N7,” “DoubleParallax” and “optcz1,” was arrested on August 31 and pleaded guilty to three counts of making hoax […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 10, 2018
Hackers defaced Linux.org with DNS hijack

The Linux.org website was defaced last week via DNS hijack, attackers breached into associated registrar account and changed the DNS settings. Attackers changed the defacement page a few times, they protested against the new Linux kernel developer code of conduct in a regrettable way with racial slurs and the image of an individual showing the anus. The defacement page also includes links […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 09, 2018
WordPress botnet composed of +20k installs targets other sites

Experts from security firm Wordfence discovered a Botnet of 20,000 WordPress Sites Infecting other WordPress installs. Experts from security firm Wordfence uncovered a botnet composed of over 20,000 WordPress sites that is being used to compromise other websites running on the popular CMS and recruit them.   “The threat actors (hackers) use a group of four command […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 09, 2018
STOLEN PENCIL campaign, hackers target academic institutions.

STOLEN PENCIL campaign – North Korea-linked APT group has been targeting academic institutions since at least May of this year. North Korea-linked threat actors are targeting academic institutions with spear phishing attacks. The phishing messages include a link to a website where a decoy document that attempts to trick users into installing a malicious Google Chrome […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2018
Europol identified 1504 money mules under EMMA 4 operation

Europol announced the arrest of 168 people under the European Money Mule Action ‘EMMA 4′, a massive operation that resulted in the identification of 1,504 money mules.  Europol announced that 168 people have been arrested under the ‘EMMA 4’, an international operation conducted by law enforcement. EMMA 4 lasted from September to November 2018. Law enforcement in […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2018
Expert devised a new WiFi hack that works on WPA/WPA2

The popular expert Jens ‘Atom’ Steube devised a new WiFi hack that allows cracking WiFi passwords of most modern routers. Jens ‘Atom’ Steube, the lead developer of the popular password-cracking tool Hashcat, has developed a new WiFi hacking technique that allows cracking WiFi passwords of most modern routers. Jens ‘Atom’ Steube, the lead developer of […]