Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
Expert discovered a new technique bypassing SMS-based two-factor authentication while circumventing Google’s recent SMS permissions restrictions The popular security expert Lukas Stefanko from ESET discovered some apps (namedBTCTurk Pro Beta and BtcTurk Pro Beta) impersonating the Turkish cryptocurrency exchange, BtcTurk, in the attempt of stealing login credentials. In order to steal the 2FA OTPs the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
A zero-day vulnerability affects multiple models of TP-Link Wi-Fi extenders, it could be exploited to remotely execute code. Security expert Grzegorz Wypych from IBM X-Force found a zero-day flaw that affects multiple models of TP-Link Wi-Fi extenders. The Wi-Fi extenders capture the Wi-Fi signal from the main network device and rebroadcast it to areas where […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
Researcher leaked online a dataset containing over 7,000,000 transactions scraped from the Venmo public API Venmo is a digital wallet app owned by PayPal that lets you make and share payments with friends. In August 2016, security expert Martin Vigo devised a method to abuse an optional SMS-based feature that allowed users to authorize payments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2019
Good news for the victims of the latest variants of the GandCrab ransomware, NoMoreRansomware released a free decryption tool. Victims of the latest variants of the GandCrab ransomware can now decrypt their files for free using a free decryptor tool released on the the NoMoreRansom website. The tool works with versions 5 to 5.2 of the ransomware, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2019
Security researchers at Cofense have spotted a phishing campaign aimed at commercial banking customers distributing a new remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as WSH RAT. Security experts at Cofense Phishing Defence Center have spotted a phishing campaign aimed at commercial banking customers that is distributing a new remote access trojan tracked as WSH RAT. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2019
Threat actors are targeting Web-based DNA sequencer applications leveraging a still-unpatched zero-day to take over the targeted systems. Starting from June 12, 2019, the researcher Ankit Anubhav from NewSky Security, observed threat actors targeting Web-based DNA sequencer applications. The attackers are leveraging a still-unpatched zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-6526, to gain full control over the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2019
Bella Thorne is the last victim of a sextortion attack, in a case similar to the Fappening saga, a hacker threatened the actress to publish her private nude photos. The hacker first obtained nude photos of Bella Thorne then threatened her to leak online the picture, but she gave an unsettling answer. Bella Thorne published tweets […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2019
Operators behind the Echobot botnet added new exploits to infect IoT devices, and also enterprise apps Oracle WebLogic and VMware SD-Wan. Recently a new botnet, tracked Echobot, appeared in the threat landscape its operators are adding new exploits to infect a broad range of systems, including IoT devices, enterprise apps Oracle WebLogic and VMware SD-Wan. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2019
On Friday, security experts at Microsoft warned of a new Linux worm, spreading via Exim email servers, that already compromised some Azure installs. Bad actors continue to target cloud services in the attempt of abusing them for several malicious purposes, like storing malware or implementing command and control servers. Microsoft Azure is not immune, recently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Critical RCE affects older Diebold Nixdorf ATMs Facebook is going to stop Huawei pre-installing apps on mobile devices Millions of Exim mail servers vulnerable to cyber attacks CIA sextortion […]
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