Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Malwaresearch – A command line tool to find malware on Openmalware.org

Malwaresearch is a command line tool to find malware on Openmalware.org, it was developed to facilitate and speed up the process of finding and downloading malware samples. The tool was developed to facilitate and speed up the process of finding and downloading malware samples via the command line interface. We’ve made use of the API provided by […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Google Project Zero team the worst Windows RCE vulnerability in recent memory

Hackers at the Google Project Zero team have discovered another critical Windows RCE vulnerability, the worst Windows RCE in recent memory. Security experts at Google Project Zero team have discovered another critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft Windows OS, but this time the hackers defined it as the worst Windows RCE in recent memory. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Android’s Vampire Bat Apps are listening to your life through ultrasonic beacons

Researchers at Technische Universitat Braunschweig published a study on 200+ Android mobile apps that are listening to your life through ultrasonic beacons. Researchers at Technische Universitat Braunschweig in Germany recently published a finding that over 200 Android mobile applications are listening to your life through ultrasonic beacons. Like digital electronic vampire bats, these apps are checking […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2017
Operation WilySupply – Software remote update channel of the supply chain exploited as attack vector

Microsoft has recently uncovered an attack dubbed Operation WilySupply that leveraged the update mechanism of an unnamed software editing tool to compromise targets. The attackers mostly targeted organizations in the finance and payment industries. “An unknown attacker was taking advantage of a silent yet effective attack vector: the compromised update mechanism or software supply chain for a third-party […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2017
European law enforcement takes down Darknet marketplace

Europol supported the Slovak NAKA crime unit in an operation that resulted in the seizure of the Bloomsfield darknet marketplace. Another success of the European police, last week Europol supported the Slovak NAKA crime unit in the arrest of a Slovak national believed to operate the Bloomsfield darknet marketplace dealing in drugs and arms. “Bloomsfield started its marketplace […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2017
Cisco fixes a critical flaw in CISCO CVR100W Wireless-N VPN Small Business Routers

Cisco released a firmware update to fix a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in CISCO CVR100W Wireless-N VPN Small Business Routers. Cisco has released a firmware update to fix a critical vulnerability in its CVR100W Wireless-N VPN routers. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-3882, can be exploited by attackers to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and execute arbitrary code […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2017
The Bondnet botnet- From China with Love

The new Bondnet botnet “Bond007.01” recently discovered coming out of China and it has infected an estimated 15,000 Windows server computers world-wide. There’s a new botnet in town and it’s named after the spy with a license to kill – James Bond. The new Bondnet botnet “Bond007.01” was discovered coming out of China by researchers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2017
Macron campaign suffered a huge hacking attack 48 hours before French vote

The campaign of the Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been targeted once again by hackers that leaked a 9GB dump of stolen data from its staff. Information warfare and politics are even more strictly correlated. It has happened again, after the DNC hack, hackers have targeted also French presidential elections. The target of the hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2017
Netrepser Cyber espionage campaign compromised hundreds of Government organizations worldwide

Experts from Bitdefender have uncovered the Netrepser Cyber espionage campaign that compromised more than 500 Government organizations worldwide. Security experts at Bitdefender uncovered a cyber espionage campaign that leverages a strain of malware dubbed Netrepser to target government organizations. Netrepser Trojan samples were first discovered by the Bitdefender in May 2016, according to experts the analysis […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2017
WikiLeaks leaked documents that detail the Archimedes tool used by the CIA in MitM attacks

WikiLeaks has released a news batch of documents detailing the Archimedes tool, a MitM attack tool allegedly used by the CIA to target LAN networks. WikiLeaks has released a new batch of documents detailing a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack tool dubbed Archimedes allegedly used by the CIA to target local networks. The leaked documents, dated between […]