Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2019
The North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37 and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. North Korea-linked APT group ScarCruft (aka APT37, Reaper, and Group123) continues to expand its arsenal by adding a Bluetooth Harvester. ScarCruft has been active since at least 2012, it made the headlines in early February […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 14, 2019
Facebook fixed a critical zero-day flaw in WhatsApp that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. Facebook has recently patched a critical zero-day vulnerability inĀ WhatsApp, tracked as CVE-2019-3568,Ā that has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device. WhatsApp did not name the threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Security experts have found a race condition vulnerability (CVE-2019-11815) in Linux Kernel Prior to 5.0.8 that expose systems to remote code execution. Linux systems based on kernel versions prior to 5.0.8 are affected by a race condition vulnerability leading to a use after free that could be exploited by hackers to get remote code execution. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Yoroi Cyber Security Annual Report 2018 – In 2018 cyber-security experts observed an increased number of cyber attacks, malware endure to be the most aggressive and pervasive threat. For this reason, analyzing the last year occurred events would help cyber-security professionals to prevent further attacks during the next few months. In many cases the attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
A vulnerability in a GPS tracker used by elderly people and kids could be exploited by an attacker to spy on individuals using it. Researchers at Fidus Information Security discovered a vulnerability in GPS trackers used by elderly people and kids could be exploited to spy on them. Experts discovered that the safety device can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
The popular French white hat hackerĀ Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y)Ā discovered how to brick all SamsungĀ mobile phones. French white hat hackerĀ Robert Baptiste (aka @fs0c131y)Ā discovered how to brick all SamsungĀ mobile phones. Baptiste bought a Samsung mobile phone a few months ago and decided to analyze it. After a few hours of tests, he discovered an unprotected receiver in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Two hacking groups associated with large-scale crypto mining campaigns, Pacha Group and Rocke Group, wage war to compromise as much as possible cloud-based infrastructure. The first group tracked as Pacha Group has Chinese origins, it was first detected in September 2018 and is known to deliver the Linux.GreedyAntd miner. The Pacha Group’s attack chain starts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2019
The paradox, the USB stick eyeDisk that uses iris recognition to unlock the drive could reveal the deviceās password in plain text in a simple way. eyeDisk is a USB stick that uses iris recognition to unlock the drive, it is advertised as the “Unhackable USB Flash Drive,” instead it could reveal the deviceās password […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2019
Equifax revealed its earnings release related to the security breach suffered in 2017, the incident has cost about $1.4 billion plus legal fees. Equifax revealed this week itsĀ earnings releaseĀ related to the security breach suffered by the credit bureau back in 2017, the incident has cost about $1.4 billion plus legal fees. In 2017 Equifax confirmed it has suffered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2019
Researchers at Cisco Talos discovered anĀ use-after-free() vulnerability in SQLite that could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute code on an affected device. Cisco Talos experts discovered anĀ use-after-free() flaw in SQLite that could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute code on an affected device. An attacker can trigger the flaw by sending […]
