Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2019
The official website of the Monero Project has been compromised to deliver a coin stealer. The official website of the Monero Project has been compromised to deliver a cryptocurrency stealer on November 18. The hack was discovered after a user downloaded a Linux 64-bit command line (CLI) Monero binary that was containing a coin stealer. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2019
New data leak threatens the world of finance after the Panama Papers, hackers published 2TB of the Cayman National bank’s confidential data. The Cayman Islands are a fiscal paradise that attracts money of questionable origin from all over the world, for this reason, the content of a new data leak is scaring the global finance. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2019
Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company: ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, detected and analyzed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), with Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2019
Experts found multiple flaws (CVE-2019-2234) in the Android camera apps provided by Google and Samsung that could allow attackers to spy on users. Cybersecurity experts from Checkmarx discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Android camera apps provided by Google and Samsung could have been exploited by hackers to spy on hundreds of millions of users. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2019
The Tianfu Cup 2019 International Cyber Security Competition is ended and white hat hackers have earned $545,000 for working zero-day exploits. During Day 1 of the Tianfu Cup 2019 contest 13 hacking attempts out of a total of 32 were successful, 13 attempts failed and in 12 cases the researchers abandoned the attempts. Now that the competition […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2019
With the advent of this year’s holiday shopping season are cybercriminals are using carding bots to test stolen payment card data before using them. Cybercriminals need to test the validity of the stolen card data before carrying out fraudulent transactions or selling them during the holiday shopping season. Cybercriminals are automating this process using carding […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2019
The Tianfu Cup 2019 International Cyber Security Competition has started, in two days white hat hackers will attempt to exploit flaws in major software. The Tianfu Cup 2019 International Cyber Security Competition has started, white hat hackers will attempt to devise working zero-day exploits for popular software. Each working exploit receives a cash prize and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2019
Researchers discovered a vulnerability in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 programmable logic controller (PLC) that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable devices. Researchers discovered an undocumented access feature in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 programmable logic controller (PLC) that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected devices. The feature was discovered by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2019
The popular messaging platform WhatsApp made the headlines again, a new bug could be exploited by hackers to secretly install spyware. According to the website The Hacker News, WhatsApp has recently fixed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11931, that could have allowed attackers to remotely compromise targeted devices. The CVE-2019-11931 is a stack-based buffer overflow issue […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2019
A working exploit for the checkm8 BootROM vulnerability is now available and security experts fear that threat actors could use is in attacks in the wild. This week, the “unpatchable” jailbreak, known as Checkra1n, for the checkm8 BootROM vulnerability was officially released potentially threatening millions of devices. “This release is an early beta preview and as such […]
