Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
The website of the tram system in Dublin, the Luas, was hacked on Thursday, attackers claim to have the access to information stored on the organization’s systems. Attackers defaced the website of the Luas, the home page displayed a message demanding the payment of 1 bitcoin. The hackers asked the payment within 5 days threatening to “publish all data and send emails […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
Three years after its disclosure, Google has patched an information disclosure flaw in the Android version of the popular Chrome web browser. The issue exposes devices information, including device model and firmware version, an attacker could exploit this info to remotely identify unpatched devices and target them. The flaw ties the way the Android version […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
The unCaptcha automated system can once again bypass Google’s reCAPTCHA challenges, despite major updates to the security service. It has happened again, the unCaptcha automated system is able to bypass the Google reCAPTCHA mechanism even if it was improved over the years. The unCaptcha system was created in 2017 to bypass the reCAPTCHA mechanism used to protect websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
The Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net was hit by a ransomware-based attack on Christmas Eve that took down its systems. Data Resolution LLC provides software hosting, business continuity systems, cloud computing, and data center services to more serves than 30,000 businesses worldwide, The news was first reported by the popular investigator Brian Krebs on KrebsOnSecurity, the company believe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
Developers that include the GNU’s wget utility in their applications have to use the new version that was released on Boxing Day. GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
The latest attack of 2018 against cryptocurrency wallets and organizations in the cryptocurrency industry hit the popular Electrum wallets. Hackers hit Electrum Bitcoin wallet and stole over 200 bitcoin, more than $750,000. The attack started on December 21th, 2018, and hackers leveraged a critical vulnerability that was addressed in early 2018. The vulnerability could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
ESET analyzed the distribution technique used by cyber criminals in new Emotet campaign that has recently affected various countries in Latin America. In November, experts from ESET uncovered a massive spam campaign that was distributing the Emotet malware. The campaign targeted several users in some Latin American countries and ESET shared details on the propagation used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 01, 2019
A team of researchers demonstrated that cryptocurrency wallets Trezor and Ledger are vulnerable to several type of attacks. During the 35c3 conference held in Leipzig, Germany, the researchers Dmitry Nedospasov, Thomas Roth, ad Josh Datko demonstrated that cryptocurrency wallets Trezor and Ledger are vulnerable to several type of attacks. The group of researchers presented called “wattet.fail” firmware, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2018
Security expert SandboxEscaper published a proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a new Windows zero-day, it is the fourth she released this year. The proof-of-concept (PoC) code published by SandboxEscaper overwrites ‘pci.sys’ with information about software and hardware problems, collected through the Windows Error Reporting (WER) event-based feedback infrastructure. SandboxEscaper initially announced the release of the PoC code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2018
The LA Times revealed that a malware-based attack hits the delivery chain of the major US newspapers delaying the hardcopy distribution. A malware-based attack originated outside the US hit US major US newspapers delaying their hardcopy distribution. According to the LA Times, the attack was carried out on Saturday, it hita computer network at Tribune […]
