Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2019
Bug hunters have earned a total of $195,000 for finding flaws in TVs, routers and smartphones on the first day of the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 contest. Pwn2Own is the annual hacking contest event organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 contest offers over $750,000 in rewards for working exploits targeting one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2019
Google experts found a flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-18408, in the compression library libarchive could lead to arbitrary code execution. Google experts found a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18408, in the compression library libarchive could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. The libarchive library is a multi-format archive and compression library that implements a single interface for reading/writing various compression formats. Several […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2019
The #FifthOfNovember has arrived, the Italian branch of Anonymous and LulzSecITA hacked websites of professional orders, prefecture of Naples, and also the telephone operator Lyca Mobile. The Million Mask March, also known as “Operation Vendetta” is a worldwide, annual protest associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous occurring annually on Guy Fawkes Day, the 5th of November. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2019
A ransomware attack disrupted IT operations in the territory of Nunavut (Canada), all government services requiring access to electronic data were impacted. A ransomware attack disrupted IT operations in the remote Canadian territory of Nunavut, all government services requiring access to electronic information were impacted. The territory is extended over more than 1.9 million square […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2019
Researchers found serious flaws in Investintech’s Able2Extract Professional tool that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code using specially crafted image files. The Able2Extract Professional has over 250,000 licensed users across 135 countries, it allows them to view, convert and edit PDF files. Cisco Talos experts discovered two high-severity memory corruption vulnerabilities that can be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2019
Business email compromise scam (BEC) continues to target organizations worldwide, crooks stole $742,000 from Ocala City in Florida. The City of Ocala in Florida is the last victim in order of time of a profitable business email compromise scam (BEC) attack, fraudsters redirected over $742,000 to a bank account under their control. Attackers’ emails posed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2019
Palo Alto Networks discovered a new version of Gafgyt botnet composed of Home & Small Office Wireless routers used to attack gaming servers. Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new version of Gafgyt botnet targeting home & small office wireless routers, including Zyxel and Huawei routers, as well as devices with Realtek RTL81xx chipset. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2019
Experts have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit, crooks leverage the exploit to install a cryptocurrency miner. Security researchers have spotted the first mass-hacking campaign exploiting the BlueKeep exploit, the attack aims at installing a cryptocurrency miner on the infected systems. In May, Microsoft warned users to update their systems to address […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2019
A vulnerability affecting devices running Andoid 8 (Oreo) or later, tracked as CVE-2019-2114, could be exploited by hackers to infect them via NFC beaming. Google has recently released a patch to address a vulnerability affecting devices running Android 8 (Oreo) or later, tracked as CVE-2019-2114, that could be exploited to infect nearby phones via NFC […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2019
The data breach suffered by Canada Desjardins credit union last year is bigger than initially thought, it affected all 4.2 million of its customers. In June, Desjardins credit union announced a data breach that exposed personal banking information of 2.9 million customers. Unfortunately, the data breach is bigger than initially thought and affected all 4.2 million of […]
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