Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2018
Nicole Eagan, the CEO of cybersecurity company Darktrace, revealed that is company investigated that hack of an unnamed casino that was breached via a thermometer in a lobby fish tank. Internet of things devices are enlarging our attack surface, smart devices are increasingly targeted by hackers in the wild. The case we are going to discuss demonstrate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2018
The Microsoft network engineer Raymond Uadiale (41) is facing federal charges in Florida for the alleged involvement in Reveton Ransomware case. The man is suspected to have had a role in helping launder money obtained from victims of the Reventon ransomware. Uadiale currently works at Microsoft site in Seattle since 2014, according to Florida police between October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2018
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 Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·     ATMJackpot, a new strain of ATM Malware discovered by experts ·     Auth0 authentication […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2018
Malware researchers from Abuse.ch, BrillantIT, and Proofpoint have sinkholed the control infrastructure behind EITest campaign and shut down it. Malware researchers from Abuse.ch, BrillantIT, and Proofpoint have sinkholed the control infrastructure behind EITest campaign that leveraged on a network of hacked servers exploited by crooks to distribute traffic (TDS). The network was used to redirect users to compromised domains hosting exploit kits, delivering […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2018
The British train company Great Western Rail announced it has suffered a security breach that affected at least 1,000 accounts out of more than a million. The company owned by the FirstGroup transport business runs trains between London, Penzance, and Worcester Great Western Rail is urging affected customers to change the password used to access the GWR.com portal, it also informed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
After the publication of a working Proof-Of-Concept for Drupalgeddon2 on GitHub for “educational or information purposes,” experts started observing bad actors attempting to exploit the flaw. At the end of March, the Drupal Security Team confirmed that a “highly critical” vulnerability (dubbed Drupalgeddon2), tracked as CVE-2018-7600, was affecting Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
When the Russian young Malware coder is praised by the Russian head of Information Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of North Ossetia. Under the spotlight: the story of Atsamaz Gatsoev (aka “1ms0rry”) who has set up his illegal business. A new write-up made by a security researcher known as Benkow (@Benkow_) has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
Security researchers at Akamai have discovered a proxy botnet composed of more than 65,000 routers exposed to the Internet via the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol. Crooks have compromised the devices of this multi-purpose proxy botnet to conduct a wide range of malicious activities, including spamming and phishing, click fraud, account takeover and credit card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
Uber agrees to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the massive 2016 data breach, the authorities could assign civil penalties against the company if it will fail to share incident data with FTC. Uber agrees to a new settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over the massive 2016 data breach. “Uber Technologies, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2018
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India’s second exchange, announced that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth of bitcoin Cryptocurrency exchange Coinsecure, India’s second exchange, announced that it has suffered a severe issue, 438 bitcoin, $3,3 million worth of bitcoin, have been transferred from the main wallet to an account that is not under their control. CEO […]
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