Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre attacks affect almost any processor, including Intel, ARM, AMD ones

The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could allow attackers to steal sensitive data which is currently processed on the computer. Almost every modern processor is vulnerable to the ‘memory leaking’ flaws, this has emerged from technical analysis triggered after the announcement of vulnerabilities in Intel Chips. White hackers from Google Project Zero have disclosed the vulnerabilities that potentially impact […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2018
Android Security Bulletin for January 2018, tech giant fixes multiple Critical flaws

Google patched five Critical bugs and 33 High severity flaws as part of the Android Security Bulletin for January 2018. The tech giant addressed 38 Android security vulnerabilities, 20 as part of the 2018-01-01 security patch level and 18 in the 2018-01-05 security patch level. The 2018-01-01 security patch level fixed four Critical remote code execution issue and 16 High risk elevation […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2018
Anonymous Italia hacked speed camera database and took over the police systems in Correggio

Anonymous Italy hacked and deleted the entire speed camera database and took over the police email and database system in Correggio. Last week, Anonymous hacked a Speed Camera Database in Italy, the hacktivists took control of a local police computer system in Correggio, Italy and erased the entire archive containing speed camera tickets. According to Gazzetta di Reggio, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2018
Intel Makes a Mistake in The CPU Design, Windows and Linux Scramble to Fix It

Intel Makes a Mistake in The CPU Design, Windows and Linux Scramble to Fix It. It is suspected that the flaw is in the way an Intel CPU manages memory between “kernel mode” and “user mode.” Competition between IT hardware manufacturers is fierce. Decimal point differences in performance specs translate into millions of dollars won […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
Necurs botnet involved in massive ransomware campaigns at the end of 2017

The Necurs botnet made the headlines at year-end sending out tens of millions of spam emails daily as part of massive ransomware campaigns. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed it activity in April. The Necurs botnet was used in the past months to push many other malware, including Locky, Jaff, GlobeImposter, Dridex , […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
CSRF Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin allows attackers to perform DROP TABLE with a single click!

The development team of phpMyAdmin has fixed a CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin that could be exploited by attackers for removing items from shopping cart. Researcher Ashutosh Barot has discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability in phpMyAdmin that could be exploited by attackers to perform malicious operations like drop tables and delete records. phpMyAdmin developers released the version 4.7.7 that addresses the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
Expert publicly disclosed a macOS zero-day that allows local privilege escalation

 A security researcher has publicly disclosed the details of macOS zero-day flaw that can be exploited to take complete control of a system. A security researcher that goes online with the Twitter account Siguza (@s1guza) has publicly disclosed the details of macOS zero-day vulnerability that can be exploited to take complete control of a system. The expert […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2018
Hackers can remotely control thousands of Sonos and Bose speakers

Security experts at Trend Micro have demonstrated that certain models of Sonos and Bose speakers are affected by vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to hijack them. Hackers can trigger the flaws to access the speakers and use them to play spooky sounds or to issue Alexa commands. Only specific models of the two companies are […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2017
It’s a mystery, member of the Lurk gang admits creation of WannaCry ransomware for intelligence agencies

A hacker belonging to the Lurk cybercrime gang admits the creation of WannaCry ransomware and DNC hack on request of intelligence agencies. In an interview to Dozhd TV channel, one of the members of the Lurk crime group arrested in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, Konstantin Kozlovsky, told that he was one of the authors of the dreaded WannaCry ransomware and that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2017
Huawei router exploit (CVE-2017-17215) involved in Satori and Brickerbot was leaked online

The exploit code used to trigger the CVE-2017-17215 vulnerability in Huawei routers over the past several weeks is now publicly available. Before Christmas, the Mirai botnet made the headlines once again, a new variant dubbed Satori was responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532 home routers. The activity of the Satori […]