Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2018
The encryption system implemented by popular solid-state drives (SSDs) is affected by critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a local attacker to decrypt data. The flaws were discovered by researchers Carlo Meijer and Bernard van Gastel at Radboud University in the Netherlands, the duo discovered that it is possible to bypass password-based authentication to access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2018
Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted an IRC bot dubbed Shellbot that was built using Perl Shellbot. The malware was distributed by a threat group called Outlaw, it was able to target Linux and Android devices, and also Windows systems. “We uncovered an operation of a hacking group, which we’re naming “Outlaw” (translation derived from the Romanian word haiduc, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2018
Google queries allowed Iran Government to dismantle the CIA communication network used by its agents and kill dozens of tens of spies The alleged hack of the communications network used by CIA agents allowed Iranian intelligence to identify and kill at least 30 spies. According to Yahoo! News the security breach has happened in 2009, the Iranian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2018
Icecast streaming media server is affected by a flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to take off the broadcast of online radio stations. Icecast streaming media server is affected by a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-18820, that could be exploited by an attacker to take off the broadcast of online radio stations. Icecast supports both audio and video data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2018
A security researcher has found a serious vulnerability in a building automation product from Sauter AG that could be exploited to steal files from an affected system. Sauter AG CASE Suit is a building automation product used worldwide that is affected by a high severity XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability that could be exploited to steal files from an affected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2018
USB removable storage devices are the main vector for malware attacks against industrial facilities, states Honeywell report. According to a report published on by Honeywell, malware-based attacks against industrial facilities mostly leverage USB removable storage devices Experts from Honeywell analyzed data collected with the Secure Media Exchange (SMX), a product it has launched in 2017 and that was designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2018
PortSmash side-channel flaw that could be exploited with a timing attack to steal information from other processes running in the same CPU core. PortSmash is a new side-channel vulnerability that could be exploited with a timing attack to steal information from other processes running in the same CPU core with SMT/hyper-threading enabled. A group of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2018
According to the Symantec experts, the group behind the SamSam ransomware has continued to launch attacks against organizations during 2018. Security experts from Symantec published an interesting post on the evolution of the SamSam ransomware that in the last month was involved in targeted attacks against several organizations including the Colorado Department of Transportation (DOT) and the City […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2018
Cybercriminals offered for sale private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts claiming of being in possession of data from 120 million accounts. Crooks are offering for sale Criminals are selling the private messages of 81,000 hacked Facebook accounts for 10 cents per account. According to the BBC, crooks are offering for sale on underground […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2018
A cyber attack on a French firm Ingerop allowed attackers to access confidential documents related to nuclear power plant plans in France. The hacker stole more than 65 gigabytes of documents back in June, the huge trove of documents includes nuclear power plant plants and blueprints for prisons and tram networks. According to the media, some […]
