Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2016
Baby monitors still open to hackers across the UK, warns the ICO

According to the ICO Baby monitors are still open to hackers across the UK, the ICO issued a list of recommendations to avoid privacy breaches. Early this year, the Shodan search engine launched a feature that lets users easily access vulnerable webcams. In September 2015, researchers from the Rapid7 security firm discovered a number of security vulnerabilities affecting several Video […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016
cuteRansomware leverages Google Docs to avoid detection

A newly strain of ransomware dubbed cuteRansomware leverages on a Google Doc to host the decryption key and command-and-control features. A recently discovered strain of ransomware, dubbed cuteRansomware, shows that your enterprise isn’t the only one thinking about cloud transition. Modern day hackers are loving the Cloud too. The cuteRansomware was discovered by Netskope security firm which observes an increase […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016
Abusing Two-factor authentication to steal money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft

A security expert revealed a number of flaws in the big player’s two-factor authentication methods that could allow crooks to steal money. Social media bug bounty hunter, Arne Swinnen, has revealed a number of flaws in the big player’s 2 factor authentication (2FA) methods that could enable a malicious user to illicit large sums of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016
SFG malware was not designed to target SCADA systems in the energy industry

Security experts from Damballa that analyzed the SFG malware confirmed that it was not designed to target SCADA systems in the energy industry Recently, experts from the SentinelOne security firm spotted a sophisticated malware dubbedSFG, a spawn of Furtim malicious code, targeting at least one European energy company. Media speculated the existence of a powerful SFG […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016
Hacker is offering for sale a complete US Voters archive

Colleagues at HackRead discovered a seller using the pseudonym of ‘DataDirect’ offering US voters’ registration records on a black marketplace. On the Dark Web is quite easy to find any kind of data, recent data breaches have literally flooded the principal black markets. Recently, colleagues at HackRead discovered a seller using the pseudonym of ‘DataDirect’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Zeus Anon

Enjoy the interview with Zeus Anon to understand which phenomena are influencing the cyberspace and how hackers are fighting the ISIS online propaganda. I’m continuing to interview hackers that every day fight against the ISIS supporters, people that live in the shadow that are engaged in hard battles. Enjoy the interview! Hi Zeus, first of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2016
Data breaches in the healthcare sector are fueling the dark web

Data breaches in the healthcare sector are fueling the dark web, millions of people’s medical records are offered for sale in the dark side of the internet. In the past several years, security pundits have been predicting that the healthcare sector was going to be the hotbed of cyber threat activity.  These predictions go back […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2016
OpenSSH is affected by a user enumeration bug

The popular OpenSSH is affected by a user enumeration bug that could be exploited by a remote attacker to check a list of hacked credentials. A bug (CVE-2016-6210) in the popular OpenSSH crypto library could be exploited by a remote attacker to enumerate users on systems running SSHD. An attacker can exploit the bug to check […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2016
Robocop is (almost) here : Artificial Intelligence in your Security Team

DARPA organized a challenge where 7 finalists will battle it out with the Artificial Intelligence system to detect flaws and scan networks for exploits. The Rio Olympics 2016 is something everyone is looking forward to. The sportsmanship, the record making, medals the spirit of the game and the hilarious doping scandals like the 1920’s grafting […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Mr Xer

Today, thanks to the support of Sneaker, I have interviewed the hacker that goes online with the pseudonym of Mr Xer . I’m continuing to interview hackers that try to destroy the online propaganda of the Islamic State, people that are involved in a silent battle that many people still ignore. Today I’ll present you […]