Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2016
A severe flaw in OpenSSL allows hackers to decrypt HTTPS traffic

Developers of OpenSSL issued a patch that fixes a high-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to decrypt secure traffic. The development team at the OpenSSL has issued a security patch to fix a flaw, coded as CVE-2016-0701, that could be exploited by hackers to decrypt secure traffic. The flaw was reported on January 12 by Antonio Sanso […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2016
HSBC online banking services offline due to a DDoS attack

The British branch of the HSBC bank has suffered for the second time in a month a cyber attack that brought its services offline. It’s happened again, HSBC customers were not able to access the online services of the bank due to a DDoS attack that hit the financial institution. “HSBC UK internet banking was attacked this morning. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2016
ATP group uses Word Docs to drop BlackEnergy Malware

The APT group behind the attacks against critical infrastructure in Ukraine is spreading BlackEnergy malware through specially crafted Word documents. Malicious campaigns leveraging the BlackEnergy malware are targeting energy and ICS/SCADA companies from across the world. The threat actors behind the recent attacks based on the popular malware are now targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine. In […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2016
ISIS offers hackers up to $10,000 to hack govt websites

The ISIS radical group is trying to infiltrate the Indian hacking community by offering money to hack government websites. 30,000 people on social media have been already contacted by the group. Members of the ISIS are willing to pay Indian hackers to hack into government websites and gain access to sensitive documents. The radical organization […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2016
Nuclear Threat Initiative says nations not prepared to repel cyber attacks on nuclear facilities

According a report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative, numerous nations are not prepared’ to handle the cyber attacks focusing on their nuclear facilities. Numerous nations are not “prepared” to handle the cyberattacks focusing on their facilities linked to nuclear programs, as per a recent report from the NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative). The Nuclear Threat Initiative is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Be careful, opening crashsafari.com your mobile will crash

It is the joke of these hours,users are sharing a link to crashsafari.com on social media platform that could crash friends’ iPhone and iPad. Do not open any a link to crashsafari.com on your iPhone, iPad or even Macs, visiting the website will cause the Safari application to crash and Apple device to restart. Obviously, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Flaw in Magento exposes millions of websites at risk of takeover

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Magento exposes millions of e-commerce websites at risk of takeover, update your platform as soon as possible Once again a vulnerability in the popular Magento e-commerce platform opens at risk of hijacking attacks millions of online merchants. According to the experts at Sucuri, the Magento e-commerce platform was affected by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Lenovo SHAREit affected by hard-coded password and many other flaws

Security experts at Core Security’s CoreLabs have discovered a hard-coded password and other vulnerabilities in the Lenovo SHAREit File-Sharing App. Lenovo today has patched several security issues related to the presence of a hard-coded password the file-sharing application Lenovo ShareIT application for Android and Windows that is available for free. The application was designed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
OpKillingBay – Anonymous shut down Japanese airport site to protest against slaughter of Dolphin

OpKillingBay – A group of hackers linked to the Anonymous collective shut down the Japanese Airport Website to protest against the slaughter of Dolphin. The collective Anonymous has launched a DDoS attack that shut down the Website of the Japanese Narita International Airport on Friday night (at around 9:30 p.m) until Saturday (around 1 a.m). The attack has been confirmed by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
A flaw in TeslaCrypt ransomware allows file recovering

The victims of the infamous TeslaCrypt ransomware can now rejoice, there is a free tool to decrypt files encrypted by TeslaCrypt and TeslaCrypt 2.0 TeslaCrypt is one of the most insidious ransomware first detected in the wild in 2015, today I have a good news for its victims. TeslaCrypt was first detected in February 2015, the […]