Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2019
Security experts identified nearly 500,000 Ubiquit devices that may be affected by a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Security experts are warning Ubiquit users of a vulnerability that has already been exploited in the wild. Last week, the researcher Jim Troutman, consultant and director of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange (NNENIX), revealed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2019
Researchers at Trend Micro discovered at least 29 malicious photo editing and beauty apps that were able to perform several malicious activities. Crooks continue to abuse Google Play store to distribute malicious apps, this time experts at Trend Micro discovered at least 29 maliciousphoto editing and beauty apps that were stealing users’ photos. The malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2019
A 20-year-old college student that has stolen more than $5 million worth of cryptocurrency through SIM swapping attacks gets a 10 years jail sentence. Joel Ortiz, a young hacker (20) who stole more than $5 million worth of cryptocurrency by hijacking victims’ phone numbers has pleaded guilty for “SIM swapping” attacks. The college student accepted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2019
Metro Bank has become the first major bank to disclose SS7 attacks against its customers, but experts believe it isn’t an isolated case. A new type of cyber attack was used for the first time against the Metro Bank, threat actors are leveraging known flaws in the SS7 signaling protocol to intercept the codes sent via […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2019
Researchers at the threat intel firm Recorded Future, have identified the hacker who amassed credentials in Collection #1 archive. Security experts at the threat intel firm Recorded Future, have discovered the hacker who allegedly created and offered for sale the massive collection known as Collection #1. The ‘Collection #1’ archive was discovered by the cyber security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Using steganography to obfuscate PDF exploits Aztarna – […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2019
Hungarian police arrested a young hacker because he discovered and exploited serious vulnerabilities in the systems of the Magyar Telekom Which are the risks for a hacker that decide to publicly disclose a vulnerability? The case I’m going to discuss shows us legal implication for this conduct. Last year, Hungarian law enforcement arrested a young […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2019
Researchers at the CenturyLink Threat Research Labs discovered that the operators of the TheMoon IoT botnet are offering it as a service. Experts at the CenturyLink Threat Research Labs observed a new evolution for the TheMoon IoT botnet, operators added a previously undocumented module that allows them to offer it with a malware-as-a-service model. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2019
The home remodeling and design platform Houzz informed customers that it suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. The popular home design platform Houzz has suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. Houzz has over 40 million monthly unique users, at the time is not clear how many individuals are affected. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2019
On Friday, Apple announced that the FaceTime issue recently discovered has been partially fixed, the company plans to release a complete update next week. This week, Apple issued a partial fix for the FaceTime issue recently discovered, the tech giant plans to release a complete update next week. Apple experts implemented a server-side patch, but the […]
