Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2018
$3.3 Million stolen from main Coinsecure Bitcoin wallet

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India’s second exchange, announced that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth of bitcoin Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India’s second exchange, announced that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth of bitcoin, have been transferred from the main wallet to an account that is not under their control. CEO […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2018
APT33 devised a code injection technique dubbed Early Bird to evade detection by anti-malware tools

The Iran-linked APT33 group continues to be very active, security researchers at Cyberbit have discovered an Early Bird code injection technique used by the group. The Early Bird method was used to inject the TurnedUp malware into the infected systems evading security solutions. The technique allows injecting a malicious code into a legitimate process, it allows execution […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2018
CVE-2018-0950 flaw in Microsoft Outlook could be exploited to steal Windows Passwords

An 18-month-old CVE-2018-0950 vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook could be exploited by hackers to steal the Windows Password. Almost 18 months ago, the security researcher Will Dormann of the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has found a severe vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook (CVE-2018-0950), time is passed but Microsoft partially addressed it with the last Patch Tuesday updates. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2018
Researchers discovered several flaws that expose electrical substations to hack

The ICS-CERT and Siemens published are warning organizations of security flaws in Siemens devices (SIPROTEC 4, SIPROTEC Compact, and Reyrolle devices) that could be exploited by hackers to target electrical substations. “Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to upload a modified device configuration that could overwrite access authorization passwords, or allow an […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2018
SAP April 2018 Security Patch Day address critical flaws in web browser controls in SAP Business Client

SAP released the April 2018 Security Patch Day, a collection of ten security patches that also address critical vulnerabilities in web browser controls in SAP Business Client. SAP also released 2 updates to previously released security notes, one note was rated Hot News, 4 were rated High Priority, and 7 were rated Medium Priority. The most […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2018
AMD and Microsoft release microcode and operating system updates against Spectre flaw

AMD released patches for Spectre Variant 2 attack that includes both microcode and operating system updates. AMD and Microsoft worked together to issue the updates on Tuesday. AMD and Microsoft released the microcode and security updates for Spectre vulnerabilities. The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could be exploited by attackers to bypass memory isolation mechanisms and access target sensitive […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Top VEVO Music videos Including ‘Despacito’ defaced by hackers

Some of the most popular music VEVO videos on YouTube, including the world’s most popular video ‘Despacito’ has been hacked by a duo calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi’SH. Some of the most popular music videos on YouTube, including the world’s most popular YouTube video ‘Despacito’ has been hacked. Popular videos of  pop stars like Shakira, Drake, Selena Gomez, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Public services at the Caribbean island Sint Maarten shut down by a cyber attack

A cyber attack shut down the entire government infrastructure of the Caribbean island Sint Maarten. public services were interrupted. A massive cyber attack took offline the entire government infrastructure of the Caribbean island Sint Maarten. it is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Government building remained closed after the attack. “The Ministry of General Affairs hereby informs […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Booby-trapped Office docs build with ThreadKit trigger CVE-2018-4878 flaw

Microsoft Office documents created with the exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit now include the code for CVE-2018-4878 flaw exploitation. At the end of March, security experts at Proofpoint discovered a Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit that has been used to spread a variety of malware, including banking Trojans and RATs (i.e. Trickbot, Chthonic, FormBook and Loki Bot). […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Linux open source utility Beep is affected by several vulnerabilitues

Researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities in the Linux command line tool Beep, some experts suggest to remove the utility from distros. An unnamed security researcher has found several vulnerabilities in the Linux command line tool Beep, including a severe flaw introduced by a patch for a privilege escalation vulnerability. Beep is a small open source utility […]