Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2016
Hummer Android malware already infected millions of devices

Experts from Cheetah Mobile firm revealed that the Hummer Android malware has already infected millions of smartphones worldwide. Security experts from the Cheetah Mobile firm are monitoring an Android malware dubbed Hummer since August 2014. The researchers noticed a significant increase in the number of infections in 2016, with a daily average of 1.4 million […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016
CISCO fixed severe vulnerabilities in Network Management and Security Products

Cisco released security patches for some of its products that fix critical and high severity flaw that could be remotely exploited by hackers. Cisco has released security patches for a number of high-severity vulnerabilities in the CISCO Management and other security products. One of the flaws, a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning (CVE-2016-1416), […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016
Dridex and Locky authors revamped the Bart malware

The authors responsible for Dridex and Locky malware have recently made another appearance, this time with their latest release – Bart malware. Similar to other ransomware, infected users are notified of the compromise with their desktop backgrounds changed with a warning, confirming that their files have been encrypted and offering a number of URLs accessible […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016
The transportation industry is increasingly being targeted by hackers

According to the 2015 version of the ‘Transportation Systems Sector-Specific Plan’ the transportation industry is increasingly exposed to cyber threats. The transportation industry is considered part of the critical infrastructure of a country, and according to the IBM’s X-Force security team is it a privileged target for hackers. The report, Security Trends in the Transportation […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2016
The global terror database World-Check was leaked online

The Thomson Reuters terrorist database World-Check used by banks and intelligence agencies worldwide was leaked online, 2.2 million records exposed. There is a terrorist database used by banks and intelligence agencies worldwide, it is called World-Check and unfortunately, it was leaked online. The leaked database is dated back 2014 and contains some 2.2 million records. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2016
For the second time Hard Rock Las Vegas suffered a data breach

On Monday the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas disclosed for the second time a data breach that compromised customers’ payment card data. It has happened again, earlier this week the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas disclosed a data breach, it is the second time the casino suffered a cyber attack. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2016
Critical vulnerabilities open Symantec customers to remote hack

Symantec has fixed dozens of critical vulnerabilities affecting its solutions that can be exploited by remote attackers for arbitrary code execution. The popular Google Project Zero hacker Tavis Ormandy last month reported a number of critical security issues in Symantec solutions, and this is the good news. The bad news is that Symantec promptly fixed one […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2016
Germany limits BND powers after the disclosure of its support to the NSA

The government of Berlin approved new measures to rein in the activities of BND agency after its scandalous support to NSA surveillance activity. In April 2016, the German government replaced the head of the external intelligence service after a barrage of criticism over the support offered by the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) to the NSA in spying […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2016
Another victim of SWIFT attackers, they steal $10 million from a Ukrainian bank

Experts from the ISACA organization confirmed that SWIFT hackers have stolen $10 million from a Ukrainian bank through SWIFT system. It is happened again, unknown hackers have stolen $10 million from an unnamed Ukrainian bank through SWIFT loophole. The news was spread by the Kyiv branch of ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, that confirmed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Cesar Cerrudo

Today I propose you an interview with Cesar Cerrudo, CTO at IOActive Labs, famous for his research on ICS/SCADA, Smart Cities, IoT, software security. Cesar Cerrudo is CTO at IOActive Labs, leading the team in producing ongoing cutting edge research on ICS/SCADA, Smart Cities, IoT, software security. But Cesar, first of all, has chosen the […]