Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2019
Electronic Arts (EA) has fixed a security issue in the Windows version of its gaming client Origin that allowed hackers to remotely execute code on an affected computer. Electronic Arts (EA) has addressed a vulnerability in the Windows version of its gaming client Origin that allowed hackers to remotely execute code on an affected computer. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2019
A database belonging to the Indian local search service JustDial was left online without protection exposing personal data of over 100M users. The archive is still leaking personally identifiable information of more than JustDial customers that are accessing the service via its website, mobile app, or even by calling on the customer care number (“88888 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2019
Threat Group Exploits Chrome Bug to Serve Malicious Ads to iOS Users Threat actors tracked as eGobbler developed a new exploit that is allowing them to serve more than 500 million malicious ads to iOS users. The group tracked as eGobbler is exploiting a security flaw in the Google Chrome browser to target millions of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
Blue Cross of Idaho announced to have suffered a data breach, hackers accessed to the personal information of about 5,600 customers. Blue Cross of Idaho announced suffered a data breach that might have exposed the personal information of about 5,600 customers (out of a grand total of 560,000 health insurance customers), including their names, subscriber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
Cyber security firm FireEye announced the release of FLASHMINGO, a new open source tool designed to automate the analysis of Adobe Flash files. FireEye released FLASHMINGO, a new open source tool designed to automate the analysis of Adobe Flash files. Adobe Flash is one of the most exploited software components of the last decade, even […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
Expert discovered an exploit that could allow ad blocking filter list maintainers for the Adblock Plus, AdBlock, and uBlocker browser extensions to craft filters to inject remote scripts into web sites. ad blocking extensions receive in input a list of malicious URLs that prevents the browser from connecting to them. With the release of Adblocker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
Scranos is a powerful cross-platform rootkit-enabled spyware discovered while investigating malware posing as legitimate software like video players, drivers and even anti-virus products. The Scranos rootkit malware was first discovered late last year when experts at Bitdefender were analyzing a new password- and data-stealing operation leveraging around a rootkit driver digitally signed with a stolen […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2019
Ecuador suffered 40 million cyber attacks on websites of public institutions since the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Last week, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. after Ecuador withdrew asylum after seven years. In response to the arrest acktivist communities launched several attacks against the Ecuador government. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
The popular hacker Gnosticplayers made the headlines again, he is offering for sale on the dark web the fifth round of hacked accounts. The popular hacker Gnosticplayers is offering for sale on the dark web the fifth round of hacked accounts. Between February and March, the hacker disclosed the existence of some massive unreported data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
Experts at Imperva discovered a new type of large-scale DDoS attack that abuses the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. Experts at Imperva Vitaly Simonovich and Dima Bekerman observed a large-scale DDoS attack abusing the HTML5 Ping-based hyperlink auditing feature. The DDoS attack peaked at a massive 7,500 requests per second and delivered more than 70 […]
