Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2018
CVE-2018-17182 -Google Project Zero reports a new Linux Kernel flaw

Google Project Zero disclosed details for a high severity Linux kernel a use-after-free vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-17182. The vulnerability is a use-after-free tracked as CVE-2018-17182, it was discovered by Google Project Zero’s Jann Horn. The vulnerability was introduced in August 2014 with the release of version 3.16 of the Linux kernel. The issue could be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2018
Pangu hackers are back, they realized the iOS 12 Jailbreak

The popular Chinese hacking team Pangu has devised the iOS 12 Jailbreak running on the latest iPhone XS. Users wait for further details. Here we go again to speak about the notorious Chinese hacking team Pangu, the group is time popular for his ability to jailbreak Apple devices. This time the experts presented a jailbreak […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2018
Talos experts published technical details for other seven VPNFilter modules

Experts from Talos continues to monitor the evolution of the VPNFilter malware, it is more powerful than previously thought. In May, security firm Talos along with other cybersecurity firms and law enforcement agencies have uncovered a huge botnet dubbed VPNFilter, composed of more than 500,000 compromised routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The malicious code targets […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2018
Mutagen Astronomy Linux Kernel vulnerability affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian distros

A new integer overflow vulnerability found in Linux Kernel. Dubbed Mutagen Astronomy, it affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions. Security researchers have discovered a new integer overflow vulnerability in Linux Kernel, dubbed Mutagen Astronomy, that affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions. The vulnerability could be exploited by an unprivileged user to gain superuser access to the targeted system. The flaw was […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2018
Hide and Seek (HNS) IoT Botnet targets Android devices with ADB option enabled

The latest samples of the HNS bot were designed to target Android devices having the wireless debugging feature ADB enabled. The Hide and Seek (HNS) IoT botnet was first spotted early this year, since its discovery the authors continuously evolved its code. The IoT botnet appeared in the threat landscape in January, when it was first discovered on January 10th […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2018
Former NSA TAO hacker sentenced to 66 months in prison over Kaspersky Leak

Former NSA TAO hacker was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky. A former member of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations hacking team was sentenced to 66 months in prison because he leaked top-secret online documents related to the US government ban on Kaspersky software. The former NSA hacker is Nghia […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2018
Crooks leverages Kodi Media Player add-ons for malware distribution

Security experts have spotted a Monero cryptomining campaign that abused Kodi add-ons to deliver miner that target both Linux and Windows systems. Crooks are abusing Kodi Media Player to distribute malware, researchers from ESET recently spotted a cryptomining campaign that compromised about over 5,000 computers. Kodi users can add new functionality by installing add-ons that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2018
oPatch community released micro patches for Microsoft JET Database Zero-Day

0patch community released an unofficial patch for the Microsoft JET Database Engine zero-day vulnerability disclosed by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative Experts from 0patch, a community of experts that aims at addressing software flaws, released an unofficial patch for the Microsoft JET Database Engine zero-day vulnerability that Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) disclosed last […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2018
Bitcoin Core Team fixes a critical DDoS flaw in wallet software

Bitcoin Core Software fixed a critical DDoS attack vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core wallet software tracked as CVE-2018-17144. The Bitcoin Core team urges miners to update client software with the latest Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 version as soon as possible. “A denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2018-17144) exploitable by miners has been discovered in Bitcoin Core versions 0.14.0 up […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2018
SHEIN Data breach affected 6.42 million users

Another fashion retailer suffered a data breach, the victim is SHEIN that announces the security breach affected 6.42 million customers. The retailer hired a forensic cybersecurity firm as well as an international law firm to investigate the security breach. SHEIN is now notifying affected users and it is urging them to change the password for […]