Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2018
A youngster (20) from Washington was indicted last week on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori. MalwareMustDie Team: “It’s time for every teenager or young man to know that playing with malware is the fastest way to finish in the jail” Mirai, Mirai […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2018
The Misfortune Cookie flaw is threatening medical equipment that connects bedside devices to the hospital’s network infrastructure. In December 2104, researchers at Check Point Software Technologies discovered the Misfortune Cookie vulnerability, a flaw that was affecting millions of devices running an embedded web server called RomPager, the vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to run a man-in-the-middle attack on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2018
Air Canada data breach – The incident was confirmed by the company and may have affected 20,000 customers (1%) of its 1.7 million mobile app users. The data breach of the day is the one suffered by Air Canada that may have affected 20,000 customers (1%) of its 1.7 million mobile app users. The news […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2018
Qualys experts discovered that OpenSSH is still vulnerable to Oracle attack, it is affected by the CVE-2018-15919 flaw at least since September 2011. Security experts from Qualys discovered that OpenSSH is still vulnerable to Oracle attack, it is affected by the CVE-2018-15919 flaw at least since September 2011. A few days ago the security expert Darek […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2018
A hacker is offering for sale the personal details of over 130 million hotel chain guests on a Chinese Dark Web forum. The news was reported by Bleeping computers, a hacker is selling the personal details of over 130 million hotel guests for 8 Bitcoin on a Chinese Dark Web forum. “The breach was reported […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2018
A group of security researchers has published a proof-of-concept exploit code for a vulnerability in the Intel Management Engine JTAG. A team of security researchers has published a proof-of-concept exploit code for a vulnerability in the Intel Management Engine JTAG. Last year the same group of experts at Positive Technologies discovered an undocumented configuration setting that disabled […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2018
The Cryptocurrency Platform Atlas Quantum suffered a security breach, information belonging to more than 260,000 users was stolen by hackers. Hackers stole information related to over 260,000 users of the Cryptocurrency Platform Atlas Quantum. Exposed data includes customer names, phone numbers, and email addresses, as well as customer account balances. The platform allows users to trade the cryptocurrency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2018
According to the threat intelligence firm Volexity, the CVE-2018-11776 vulnerability is already being abused in malicious attacks in the wild. Just yesterday I wrote about the availability online of the exploit code for the recently discovered Critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2018-11776 in Apache Struts 2. The PoC code was published on GitHub and experts were warning of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2018
A security researcher has publicly disclosed the details of zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all Microsoft’s Windows operating systems A security researcher who handles the Twitter account @SandboxEscaper has disclosed the details of zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Microsoft’s Windows operating systems that could be exploited by a local attacker or malicious program to obtain system privileges on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2018
Experts from SecureWorks discovered a large phishing campaign targeting universities carried out by an Iran-linked threat actor COBALT DICKENS. Security firm SecureWorks has uncovered a new phishing campaign carried out by COBALT DICKENS APT targeting universities worldwide, it involved sixteen domains hosting more than 300 spoofed websites for 76 universities in 14 countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Israel, […]
