Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2016
Information Security experts have discovered an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability in Joomla component ja-k2-filter-and-search. Information Security Researchers Dimitrios Roussis and Evangelos Apostoloudis have discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in component ja-k2-filter-and-search (https://www.joomlart.com/joomla/extensions/ja-k2-search) of Joomla, a popular open-source Content Management System (CMS). This component has been used in various Joomla sites. Through the use of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2016
Security experts have spotted an interesting exfiltration technique adopted by crooks to exfiltrate card data from Magento platforms. Security experts from Sucuri and RiskIQ have spotted an interesting exfiltration technique adopted by crooks to exfiltrate payment data from compromised e-commerce websites powered by the Magento platform. Cybercriminals have been using image files to store and exfiltrate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2016
Experts at ElevenPaths, a Telefonica’s cyber security unit, provided further details on political cyberattacks leveraging on advanced malicious codes. On 19 July at 11pm Ankara time, Wikileaks published the first emails that were grabbed from the Turkish AKP. The organization led by Julian Assange, being in line with its policy on publication of secret information, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
Even if you have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint it is possible to unlock it. 1. Introduction You have an iPhone 6S protected by a 6 digits password plus the touch ID fingerprint and you may think that nobody can unlock it without the code, right? […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
“VeraCrypt is much safer after this audit, and the fixes applied to the software mean that the world is safer when using this software.” The security researcher Jean-Baptiste Bédrune from Quarkslab and the cryptographer Marion Videau have discovered a number of security vulnerabilities in the popular encryption platform VeraCrypt. A new audit of the disk-encryption […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2016
The group calling itself The Shadow Brokers who hacked the NSA-linked Equation Group announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign for the stolen arsenal. This summer the hacker group Shadow Brokers hacked the NSA-linked group known as the Equation Group and leaked 300 Mb of hacking tools, exploits, and implants. The Shadow Brokers launched an all-pay auction for the full archive containing the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2016
NRSC hack – A platform used by the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the donations was hacked and donors’ financial data have been exposed. Other rumors around the Presidential Election, once again, it’s a hacking story in the headlines, the NRSC hack. Donations sent to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) between March 16 and October 5, 2016 on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2016
The Group-IB firm has published a report titled “High Crime Trends 2016” that includes interesting data about principal cybercrime trends. Group-IB, one of the global leaders in preventing and investigating high-tech crimes and online frauds, has published an interesting report titled “High Crime Trends 2016” that provides an interesting analyzing of current criminal activities. The Key Trends evaluate are evaluated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2016
Experts from Kaspersky have spotted a new threat in the wild written in Python, the CryPy ransomware that uses a unique key for each. Researcher newly founded “CryPy “ Ransomware written in python has surprised Israeli server for command and control (C&C) communication. In past, we have other ransomware written in python like Zimbra, HolyCrypt, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2016
The US Government is thinking of a possible cyber strike against the Kremlin in response to the alleged interference with the 2016 presidential election. A few days ago the US Government has formally accused the Russian Government of trying to interfere in the 2016 Political Election. Washington is officially accusing Russia trying to interfere the 2016 US […]
