Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2019
The paradox, the USB stick eyeDisk that uses iris recognition to unlock the drive could reveal the device’s 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 device’s 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 its earnings release 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 an 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 an 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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice charged nine individuals connected to a hacking crew focused on identity theft and SIM swapping attacks. The U.S. DoJ announced charges against nine individuals, 6 members of a hacking group known as ‘The Community’ and 3 former employees of mobile phone providers. The latter group helped the hackers to steal roughly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2019
According to researchers at AT&T Alien Labs, threat actors are attempting to exploit the CVE-2019-0604 Microsoft Sharepoint vulnerability in attacks in the wild. AlienLabs has seen a number of reports related to the active exploitation of the CVE-2019-0604 vulnerability in Microsoft Sharepoint. The CVE-2019-0604 vulnerability is a remote code execution flaw that is caused by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2019
Security researchers at the Imaginary team discovered a Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus Engine and responsibly reported it. Security experts at the Imaginary team discovered a Heap Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Kaspersky Antivirus Engine. The flaw tracked as CVE-2019-8285 affects Kaspersky Lab Antivirus Engine version before 04.apr.2019 and potentially allows arbitrary code execution. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2019
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FCI published a new joint report on ELECTRICFISH, a malware used by North Korea. US DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted a joint analysis of a traffic tunneling tool dubbed ELECTRICFISH used by North Korea-linked APT group tracked as Hidden Cobra (aka Lazarus). It […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2019
A Russian hacking group Fxmsp is offering for sale the access to the networks of at least three antivirus companies in the US and source code of their software. Fxmsp is a high-profile Russian- and English-speaking hacking group focused on breaching high-profile private corporate and government information. The group is offering the accesses to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2019
US DoJ indicted a member of sophisticated China-based hacking group for series of computer intrusions. The group is also responsible for the 2015 Health Insurer Anthem data breach. The US Department of Justice indicted Fujie Wang (32), a member of sophisticated Chinese hacking group that breached at several US companies, including the health insurer Anthem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2019
Global information services company Wolters Kluwer took offline has taken offline many of its applications and platforms in response to a ransomware attack. Another ransomware attack made hit a big company, this time the victim is the Global information services giant Wolters Kluwer that took offline some of the affected systems after the incident. Wolters […]
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