Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2017
A bug in macOS High Sierra allows Root access with no password

macOS High Sierra is plagued by a vulnerability that can be exploited to gain root access to a machine with no password. An easy exploitable vulnerability in macOS 10.13, aka macOS High Sierra, could be triggered by users to gain admin rights, or log in as root, without a password. The vulnerability is exploitable via the authentication […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Google detects Android Tizi Spyware that spies on popular apps like WhatsApp and Telegram

Google identified a new family of Android malware dubbed Tizi spyware by using Google Play Protect, it spies on popular apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. In May, Google introduced the defense system called Google Play Protect to protect the Android devices, it implements a machine learning and app usage analysis to identify any malicious activity on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Hackers can easily target container ships by hacking load plans due to its vulnerable messaging system

Ship loading and container load plans are vulnerable to hack because are created without using a secure messaging system. Transportation is not immune from hacking attacks, aircraft and vessels can be compromised by cyber criminals and nations state actors exactly like any other system. Today let’s speak about ship loading and container load plans that are […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Bulletproof 360 website was hacked. Personal and financial data exposed

The website of the coffee vendor Bulletproof 360 was infected with a malware that stole customers’ financial and personal data. The firm Bulletproof 360, Inc. manufactures coffee and tea products, and dietary supplements for upgrading mind and body. It serves customers online, as well as through stores in the United States and internationally. The company […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2017
Unix mailer Exim is affected by RCE, DoS vulnerabilities. Apply the workaround asap

The Exim Internet mail message transfer agent warned of flaws through the public bug tracker, sys admins have to apply the workaround asap. Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet, it is the most popular MTA on the Internet. The Internet mail message […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2017
A Verge specific node wallets hacked, crooks stole $655,000 from CoinPouch XVG Verge wallets

CoinPouch publicly disclosed the hack of a Verge specific node wallets and the theft if $655,000 from its XVG Verge wallets. A mystery surrounds the recent hack of CoinPouch wallet app, users lost over $655,000 worth of Verge cryptocurrency. On Tuesday, the maintainers of the CoinPouch multi-currency wallet app  published a statement that disclosed a security breach […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2017
The Cobalt group is exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office flaw in targeted attacks

A few days after details about the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office flaw were publicly disclosed, the firm Reversing Lab observed Cobalt group using it. A few days after details about the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office vulnerability were publicly disclosed, security experts from firm Reversing Lab observed criminal gang using it in the wild. The gang is the notorious Cobalt hacking group […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2017
A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, around 100,000 IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours

A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, experts observed around 100K IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours searching for flawed ZyXEL PK5001Z routers. According to Li Fengpei, a security researcher with Qihoo 360 Netlab, the publication of the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code in a public vulnerabilities database is the root cause of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2017
GOLDEN SAML attack technique forges authentication to cloud apps

Golden SAML could be exploited by an attacker to create fake enterprise identities and access to valuable cloud resources. Security experts at CyberArk Labs have devised a post-intrusion attack technique dubbed Golden SAML that could be exploited by an attacker to create fake enterprise identities and forge authentication to gain access to valuable cloud resources […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2017
A new version of the Scarab ransomware is now being distributed via the Necurs botnet

The Scarab ransomware is now being distributed to millions of users via a massive spam campaign powered with the dreaded Necurs botnet. Scarab is a strain of ransomware, first spotted in June by the security researcher Michael Gillespie, that is now being distributed to millions of users via a massive spam campaign powered with the dreaded Necurs […]