Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2019
Microsoft enabled Retpoline mitigations against the Spectre Variant 2 for Windows 10

Microsoft started rolling out a new software update for Windows 10 systems to apply mitigations against the Spectre attacks. Over the weekend, Microsoft started distributing software updates for Windows 10 systems to enable the Retpoline mitigations against Spectre attacks.  In January 2018 security experts at Google Project Zero disclosed Meltdown and Spectre side-channel attacks that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2019
Google Project Zero discloses zero-day in Apple macOS Kernel

Cybersecurity expert at Google Project Zero has publicly disclosed details and proof-of-concept exploit for a high-severity security vulnerability in macOS operating system. Google Project Zero white hat hacker Jann Horn disclosed the flaw according to the 90-days disclosure policy of the company because Apple failed to address the issue within 90 days of being notified. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2019
The Wireshark Foundation released Wireshark 3.0.0

The Wireshark Foundation released Wireshark 3.0.0, the latest release of the popular open-source packet analyzer. The Wireshark Foundation announced the release of Wireshark 3.0.0, the latest release of the popular open-source packet analyzer. The new version addresses several bugs and introduces tens of new features, it also improved existing features. The most important changes is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 203 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! 70000 Pakistani banks cards with PINs go on sale on the dark web. CVE-2019-9019 affects British Airways Entertainment System on Boeing 777-36N(ER) Duo Labs presents CRXcavator Service that analyzes […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2019
A Cobalt Strike flaw exposed attackers’ infrastructure

According to security experts at Fox-IT, a recently addressed flaw in the Cobalt Strike penetration testing platform could be exploited to identify attacker servers. Security experts at Fox-IT discovered that a recently addressed vulnerability in the Cobalt Strike penetration testing platform could be exploited to identify attacker servers. The vulnerability was addressed in Cobalt Strike […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2019
2 HackerOne members received each over $1M via Bug programs

Bug bounty platform HackerOne announced that two of its members have each earned more than $1 million by participating bug bounty programs. Bug bounty programs could be a profitable activity, the popular bug bounty platform HackerOne announced that two of its members have each earned more than $1 million by helping companies in discovering flaws […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2019
Emissary Panda updated its weapons for attacks in the past 2 years

Experts analyzed tools and intrusion methods used by theChina-linked cyber-espionage group Emissary Panda in attacks over the past 2 years. This morning I wrote about a large-scale cyber attack that hit the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in November 2016, Emissary Panda was suspected to be the culprit. Experts at Secureworks reports who investigated the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2019
Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab analyze GoBrut: A new GoLang Botnet

Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab analyze a new GoLang botnet named GoBrut, the investigation allowed to discover that the bot supports a lot more features Introduction Malware written in Go programming language has roots almost a decade ago, few years after its first public release back in 2009: starting from InfoStealer samples discovered since 2012 and abused in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2019
CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019

The popular in-browser cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive has announced that it will shut down on March 8, 2019. The service made the headlines across the years because it was used by crooks to abuse computational resources of the victims that were visiting compromised websites hosting the Coinhive script. Coinhive was initially launched as a legitimate […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2019
PDF zero-day samples harvest user data when opened in Chrome

Experts at Exploit detection service EdgeSpot detected several PDF documents that exploit a zero-day flaw in Chrome to harvest user data. Exploit detection service EdgeSpot spotted several PDF documents that exploit a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome to harvest data on users who open the files through the popular web browser. The experts initially detected the […]