Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
Three men who admitted to being the authors of the Mirai botnet avoided the jail after helping the FBI in other cybercrime investigations. I’m following the evolution of Mirai botnet since MalwareMustDie shared with me the findings of its investigation in August 2016. Now three individuals who admitted to being the authors of the infamous botnet avoided the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. The first data that emerged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
An authentication bypass vulnerability in Western Digital My Cloud NAS could allow hackers to access the content of the storage Researchers at security firm Securify have discovered an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Western Digital My Cloud platform that could be exploited by attackers to gain admin-level access to the device via an HTTP request. The flaw, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2018
Security researcher Max Justicz has discovered several flaws in the distribution Alpine Linux, including an arbitrary code execution. Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution that is heavily used in containers, including Docker. Alpine Linux is based on musl libc and busybox, it is a tiny distro and is optimized to manage resources, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2018
One year after the discovery of the BlueBorne Bluetooth vulnerabilities more than 2 billion devices are still vulnerable to attacks. In September 2017, experts with Armis Labs devised a new attack technique, dubbed BlueBorne, aimed at mobile, desktop and IoT devices that use Bluetooth. The BlueBorne attack exposes devices to a new remote attack, even without […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2018
Experts at the Google Android team have discovered high severity privilege escalation vulnerability in some of Honeywell Android-based handheld computers. Security experts from the Google Android team have discovered a high severity privilege escalation vulnerability in some of Honeywell Android-based handheld computers that could be exploited by an attacker to gain elevated privileges. According to the vendor, Honeywell handheld computers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2018
The gambling application EOSBet was affected by a vulnerability in its smart contract system that has been exploited by attackers to steal $200,000 worth of EOS. The security breach was first reported by the member “thbourlove” of the EOSBet Reddit community that shared the code used to exploit the flaw. After seeing the exploit code, the EOSBet’s official Reddit account […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2018
The Bristol Airport was hit by a cyber attack that caused problems with operations, flight display screens were taken offline for two days. The Bristol Airport was hit by a ransomware-based attack that caused problems to the flight display screens for two entire days. The news reported by the BBC and was confirmed by an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2018
MageCart cyber gang compromised the cloud service firm Feedify and stole payment card data from customers of hundreds of e-commerce sites. MageCart crime gang appears very active in this period, payment card data from customers of hundreds of e-commerce websites may have been stolen due to the compromise of the cloud service firm Feedify. Cloud service firm Feedify has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2018
Security experts disclosed a locally exploitable kernel-level vulnerability in the Webroot SecureAnywhere macOS security software. The Webroot SecureAnywhere macOS security software was affected by a locally exploitable kernel-level vulnerability. An attacker that exploit the flaw could execute malware at the “kernel level” on a vulnerable Mac system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-16962, was patched months ago but publicly disclosed […]
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