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Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2017
Cyber criminals demand HBO millions to stop leaking its material

Cyber gang demands HBO CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom to avoid 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being leaked online. Crooks claiming to have hacked television group HBO networks were demanding millions of dollars in ransom payments from the company while threatening to release more material. The alleged hackers published a five-minute video letter to HBO […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2017
Adobe patches 80 vulnerabilities in its products, including Flash Player, Reader, and Acrobat

Adobe released security updates to address more than 80 flaws in products, including Flash Player, Reader, Acrobat, Digital Editions and Experience Manager. Adobe released security updates for its Flash Player, Reader, Acrobat, Digital Editions and Experience Manager products. The company addressed more than 80 vulnerabilities. Adobe has updated Flash Player to version 26.0.0.151 on all platform, this release […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2017
Black Hat 2017 – Hacking the electronic locks to open the doors could be easy

Many times we have seen in movies hackers and spies breaking electronic locks with any kind of electrical equipment. Is it possible? Many times, we have seen in movies hackers and spies breaking electronic locks with any kind of electrical equipment. A pocket device that in a few seconds is able to try all the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2017
Hotspot Shield VPN threatens your privacy by injecting ads and JS into browsers

The CDT urged US federal trade authorities to investigate VPN provider AnchorFree for deceptive and unfair trade practices. The digital rights advocacy group Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) urged US federal trade authorities to investigate VPN provider AnchorFree for deceptive trade practices. AnchorFree provides the Hotspot Shield VPN app claiming it allows to protect users from online tracking, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2017
Irish electricity transmission system operator EirGrid targeted by a nation-state actor

The Irish electricity transmission system operator EirGrid was targeted by a state-sponsored actor, the hackers weren’t discovered at least for two months. The Irish electricity transmission system operator EirGrid was targeted by a state-sponsored attack. EirGrid is the state-owned company that operates the electricity transmission grid across the Ireland, it also supplies the distribution network […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2017
British model Chloe Ayling kidnapped by Black Death group for auction in the dark web

The British model Chloe Ayling kidnapped in Italy by an alleged member of the ‘Black Death’ organisation who offered her on the Dark Web The 20-year-old British model Chloe Ayling was kidnapped in Milan, Italy, to be auctioned off on a pornographic website on the dark web. According to the declaration of the model to the Italian […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2017
FireEye Provides Update on the alleged data breach revealed late July

Late July, hackers posted details alleged stolen from a system belonging to a Senior Analyst at security firm FireEye/Mandiant. The company provides update. Late July, hackers have posted details alleged stolen from a system belonging to Adi Peretz, a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at security firm FireEye/Mandiant. The leaked archive is a 337MB PST file containing the expert’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2017
Experimental Mozilla Send service allows users share encrypted copy of huge files

Mozilla Send service allows users to make an encrypted copy of a local file, store it on a remote server, and share it with a single recipient. Mozilla has presented Send, an experimental service that allows users to make an encrypted copy of a local file, store it on a remote server, and share it with […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2017
Creator of the Ebury botnet sentenced to 46 months in jail

US authorities sentenced a Russian man to 46 months in prison and accused him of operating an Ebury botnet composed of tens of thousands of servers. US authorities sentenced a Russian man to 46 months in prison and accused him of infecting tens of thousands of servers worldwide with a Linux malware to generate millions in fraudulent payments. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2017
Flaws in solar panels potentially threatening European power grids

The Horus scenario, is a scenario describing a large scale cyber attack targeting the vital electrical infrastructure triggering flaws found in solar panels Willem Westerhof, a Dutch security researcher at the security firm ITsec has found a serious vulnerability in a component of solar panels that could be exploited by hackers to cause widespread outages […]