Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2019
Sergiy P. , the administrator of DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Sergiy P. Usatyuk, a man that was operating several DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. DDoS-for-hire services, aka stressers or booters, allows crooks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2019
On Thursday, US authorities arrested two crooks charging them with stealing $550,000 in cryptocurrency from at least 10 victims using SIM swapping. American law enforcement has declared war to sim swapping scammers and announced the arrest of two individuals for stealing $550,000 in Cryptocurrency. The suspects stole the funds from at least 10 victims using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2019
Symantec addressed a local privilege escalation flaw that affects all Symantec Endpoint Protection client versions prior to 14.2 RU2. Symantec addressed a local privilege escalation flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-12758, that affects all Symantec Endpoint Protection client versions prior to 14.2 RU2. The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges on target devices and carry out malicious actions, including the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2019
Security vulnerabilities in Qualcomm allow attackers to steal private data from hundreds of million millions of devices, especially Android smartphones. Security experts from Check Point have discovered security flaws in Qualcomm that could be exploited attackers to steal private data from the so-called TrustZone. The TrustZone is a security extension integrated by ARM into the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2019
Eclypsium experts found a vulnerability affecting the popular PMx Driver Intel driver that can give malicious actors deep access to a device. In August, Eclypsium researchers found multiple serious vulnerabilities in more than 40 device drivers from tens of vendors, including AMI, ASRock, ASUS, ATI, Biostar, EVGA, Getac, Gigabyte, Huawei, Insyde, Intel, MSI, NVIDIA, Phoenix Technologies, Realtek, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2019
Aleksei Burkov is a Russian accused of being involved in more than $20 million in credit-card frauds, has been extradited to the US to face criminal charges. Aleksei Burkov (29) is a Russian man accused of running an online criminal marketplace, called Cardplanet, that helped crooks to organize more than $20 million in credit card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2019
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2019 address over 70 flaws, including an Internet Explorer issue (CVE-2019-1429) that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for November 2019 address 74 flaws, including an Internet Explorer vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1429, that has been exploited in the wild. Microsoft doesn’t provide any […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2019
On Sunday, the Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was infected with the DoppelPaymer ransomware. On Sunday, a piece of the DoppelPaymer ransomware infected systems of the Mexican state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) taking down part of its network. According to the company, less than 5% of the computers in its network were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2019
New problems for Facebook, it seems that the social networking giant is secretly using the camera while iPhone users are scrolling their feed. Is this another privacy issue for Facebook? The iPhone users Joshua Maddux speculates that Facebook might be actively using your camera without your knowledge while you’re scrolling your feed. Maddux published footage […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2019
Researchers from Radware reported that massive TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure in the last month. Researchers from Radware are warning of a wave of TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks that in the last 30 days hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure. “Over the last 30 days, Radware has observed […]
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