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Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2015

TrueCrypt doesn’t include a backdoor according to a security audit

The security audit of the popular encryption software TrueCrypt reveals the absence of the backdoor and other significant flaws exploitable by the NSA. The news of the day is the conclusion of the security audit of the popular encryption tool TrueCrypt that confirmed the absence of any backdoor neither critical design vulnerabilities inside the source code. TrueCrypt is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015

A hacker developed Maldrone, the first malware for drones

Security expert Rahul Sasi has discovered and exploited a backdoor in Parrot AR Drones that allows him to remotely hijack the UAV with the malware Maldrone. The diffusion of drones is alerting government and authorities, small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used more frequently in different sectors. The security of drones in both military and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2015

Hackers running Linux Operation Windigo are changing tactics targeting porn sites

Security Experts at ESET firm discovered that Windigo campaign is still active and that bad actors are changing their tactics to remain under the radar. Windigo is a sophisticated malware-based campaign uncovered by security Experts at ESET in March 2014, hackers behind the campaign that exploited the Linux/Ebury backdoor compromising more than 500,000 computers and 25,000 dedicated servers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2015

MiniDuke, CosmicDuke and OnionDuke have a same matrix

Security experts collected further evidences of the link between the CosmicDuke, Miniduke and OnioDuke Advanced Persistent Threat campaigns. Researchers at F-Secure firm are constantly monitoring the cyber espionage campaigns MiniDuke, CosmicDuke and OnionDuke and provided an interesting update on the hacking operation. Below a short description of the campaigns: MiniDuke: Kaspersky Lab and Hungary’s Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security, or CrySyS, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2015

Sucuri firm discovered Backdoors relying on the Pastebin Service

The popular copy and paste website Pastebin has been leveraged by hackers to serve a backdoor to millions of users by exploiting flaws in a WordPress plugin. Malware authors have demonstrated a great inventiveness using any kind of platform and technique to control their malicious code. Security experts have detected botnet controlled via Gmail drafts, Evernote or […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2014

USBdriveby, how to compromise a PC with a $20 microcontroller

USBdriveby is a device designed to quickly and covertly install a backdoor and override DNS settings on an unlocked machine via USB. The security experts Samy Kamkar (@SamyKamkar) has proposed a very interesting way to compromise an unlocked computer and deploy a backdoor on it simply by using a pre-programmed Teensy microcontroller. The cheap ($20) […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2014

CoolReaper, a Backdoor in million Coolpad Android devices

Palo Alto Networks discovered that the software installed on many of Coolpad high-end Android phones includes a CoolReaper backdoor. The US security firm Palo Alto Networks have discovered that millions of Android smartphones commercialized by the Chinese smartphone maker Coolpad Group Ltd. may contain a “backdoor”, dubbed CoolReaper, that allows the tracking of the users. Palo Alto […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2014

APT ported XSLCmd Backdoor on OS X according to FireEye

Security Experts at FireEye Lab discovered a new variant of the XSLCmd backdoor that has been used in targeted attacks infecting Mac OX based systems. Experts at FireEye Labs have discovered a previously unknown variant of the APT backdoor XSLCmd, OSX.XSLCmd, which is used by a group of hackers known for past cyber espionage activities against the U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2014

A Wide Open Backdoor is present in million Netis Routers

Routers manufactured by Netcore and sold worldwide under Netis brand have a wide-open backdoor that can be fairly easily exploited by threat actors. Experts at TrendMicro discovered that routers manufactured by Chinese security vendor and sold under the brand name Netcore in China have a hard-coded password. The hard-coded password allows attackers to access user’s traffic with a backdoor, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2014

Reading the Malware Trend Report, Q2 2014 issued by RedSocks

RedSocks Malware Research Labs issued the Malware Trend Report Q2 2014, which contains data evolution of principal cyber threats observed in the second quarter of the year. The Dutch company specializing in Malware detection RedSocks Research Lab. Has published the second quarterly trend report for 2014. The experts have analyzed large numbers of malicious files […]

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TrueCrypt doesn’t include a backdoor according to a security audit

A hacker developed Maldrone, the first malware for drones

Hackers running Linux Operation Windigo are changing tactics targeting porn sites

MiniDuke, CosmicDuke and OnionDuke have a same matrix

Sucuri firm discovered Backdoors relying on the Pastebin Service

USBdriveby, how to compromise a PC with a $20 microcontroller

CoolReaper, a Backdoor in million Coolpad Android devices

APT ported XSLCmd Backdoor on OS X according to FireEye

A Wide Open Backdoor is present in million Netis Routers

Reading the Malware Trend Report, Q2 2014 issued by RedSocks

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