Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 201 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Adiantum will bring encryption on Android devices without […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2019
Russia is going to disconnect from the internet as part of a planned test

Russia plans to disconnect the country from the internet as part of an experiment aimed at testing the response to cyber attacks that should isolate it. Russia plans to disconnect the country from the Internet for a limited period of time to conduct a test aimed at assessing the security of its infrastructure. Russian citizens […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2019
A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web

A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web, this time the huge trove of data appears to be originated from eight companies. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘gnosticplayers‘ is offering for sale the data on the Dream Market marketplace asking $14,500 worth of Bitcoin. Early this week, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2019
Group-IB helped to arrest phone scammers profiting off the backs of the Russian elderly

Moscow police department operatives, with the participation of Group-IB experts, took down a group of phone scammers who for several years have been extorting money from the elderly. Phone scammers typically managed to steal between 450 and 4500 USD per victim, promising substantial compensation for their purchases of medicines, medical devices or dietary supplements. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2019
Coffee Meets Bagel dating app confirms data breach

The week closes with the news of another embarrassing data breach, the Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed a hack on Valentine’s Day. The dating app Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed that hackers breached its systems on Valentine’s Day and may have obtained access to users’ account data. The company notified the incident to account holders, the intrusion […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2019
Germany makes its cyber capabilities available for NATO alliance

Germany announced it is going to make its cyber capabilities available for the NATO alliance to help fight hacking and electronic warfare. Germany is going to share its cyber warfare capabilities with the NATO alliance to protect members of the alliance against hacking and electronic warfare. During the 2016 Warsaw Summit, NATO officially recognised cyberspace […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2019
SAP security fixes address Critical flaw in SAP HANA XSA

SAP released a collection of security fixes for February 2019 that address 13 vulnerabilities in its products, including a Hot News flaw in SAP HANA XSA. This week SAP addressed 13 vulnerabilities in its products with the released of the February 2019 set of security fixes, including a Hot News flaw in SAP HANA Extended […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2019
Bank of Valletta shut down its operations after a cyber attack

Bank of Valletta, the largest bank of Malta was hit by a cyber attack, attackers attempted to steal 13 million euros ($14.7 million). Bank of Valletta the largest bank in Malta that accounts for almost half of banking transactions in the country, had to shut down its operations on Wednesday after hackers attempted to withdraw 13 […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2019
0patch released micropatch for code execution flaw in OpenOffice

Experts at ACROS Security’s 0patch released an unofficial patch for a recently disclosed remote code execution vulnerability in the Apache OpenOffice suite. ACROS Security’s 0patch released an unofficial patch for a path traversal flaw recently disclosed in the Apache OpenOffice suite. The security researcher Alex InfĂŒhr discovered a severe remote code execution vulnerability in LibreOffice […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2019
Ubuntu snapd flaw allows getting root access to the system.

Expert discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in default installations of Ubuntu Linux that resides in the snapd API. Security researcher Chris Moberly discovered a vulnerability in the REST API for Canonical’s snapd daemon that could allow attackers to gain root access on Linux machines. Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu Linux, promotes their “Snap” packages to roll all […]