Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2017
12 InterContinental Hotels Group properties suffered a massive data breach

Hackers compromised payment systems at 12 US properties of the InterContinental Hotels Group and stolen card data with a malware. The hospitality giant InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has confirmed that payment systems of 12 US hotels were victims of a massive data breach. Just a month ago the company InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) confirmed an […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2017
Hacker leaked tools stolen from mobile forensics company Cellebrite

The hacker that breached the systems of the mobile forensics company Cellebrite leaked online some tools and announced further releases. In January the Israeli mobile phone data extraction company Cellebrite was hacked, the company went in the headlines in the dispute between Apple and the FBI in the case of the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. The main […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2017
Russian APT 29 group launched cyber attacks against Norwegian authorities

The Norwegian intelligence agency PST is one of the targets of spear phishing attacks launched by the Russian APT 29 group. The dreaded Russian APT 29 group is back, the Norwegian authorities accuse Russia of cyber attacks that hit the foreign ministry, intelligence and other institutions. “Nine different email accounts were targeted in an attempt at […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2017
US-CERT is warning about a Windows SMB zero-day flaw

The US-CERT issued a security advisory to warn of a zero-day memory corruption vulnerability in the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol that can be exploited by a remote attacker. The US-CERT is warning of a zero-day memory corruption vulnerability in the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol that can be exploited to cause a denial of service condition or […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2017
Authentication Bypass Vulnerability found in Cisco Prime Home product

The experts at Cisco have discovered a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the Cisco Prime Home during an internal security testing. Cisco has released a security update for CISCO Prime Home remote management and provisioning solution to fix a flaw that could be exploited to authentication bypass. The experts at Cisco have discovered the critical […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2017
Popular hacking toolkit Metasploit adds hardware testing capabilities

The Metasploit hacking toolkit now includes a new hardware bridge that makes it easier for users to analyze hardware devices. The popular offensive hacking toolkit Metasploit now is powerful, it included a hardware bridge to conduct security tests on hardware. It is a great support to the users that have to test hardware, including IoT devices. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2017
How much trust do you put into your Gmail inbox messages?

Given the high trust we have on Gmail we tend to believe that all messages that fall into our inbox are legit and safe, but there is something to know … 1.    Introduction Taking good care of e-mail messages is certainly among the first recommendations of any information security policy and user awareness program. The involved […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2017
Russian cyber espionage group Turla leverages on a new JavaScript Malware

The Russia-linked cyber espionage group known as Turla has been using a new piece of JavaScript malware to profile victims, Kaspersky Lab reported on Thursday. Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage ATP group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2017
Foreign hackers broke into the Czech Foreign Ministry email

A nation state actor could be behind the security breach suffered by the Czech Foreign Ministry, experts are investigating the case. On Tuesday the Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek announced that threat actors have breached dozens of email accounts at the Czech Foreign Ministry. Zaoralek added that the cyber-attacks were likely conducted by a foreign state, but […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2017
Zero-day Content Injection Vulnerability found in WordPress

A new dangerous Zero-day Content Injection vulnerability has been discovered in the WordPress CMS, it affects the WordPress REST API. A new dangerous vulnerability has been discovered in the WordPress CMS, it is a zero-day content injection flaw in the WordPress REST API. The vulnerability discovered by a security researcher at firm Sucuri could be […]