Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2017
OpenSSL patches vulnerabilities discovered with Google OSS-Fuzz fuzzing service

OpenSSL patches two low and medium severity vulnerabilities that were discovered by using Google’s open source OSS-Fuzz fuzzing service. The medium severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-3736 was addressed with the release of OpenSSL 1.1.0g and 1.0.2m. The flaw is a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure, it affects processors that support BMI1, BMI2 and […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2017
White hat hackers earn over $500,000 for mobile exploits at Mobile Pwn2Own 2017 competition

Let’s see what has happened at Mobile Pwn2Own 2017 competition organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) at the PacSec conference in Tokyo. Here we are discussing once again of the Mobile Pwn2Own competition organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) at the PacSec conference in Tokyo. White hat hackers earned more than half a million […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2017
2014 Data Breach – 46.2 Million Malaysian Mobile phone numbers leaked online

46.2 Million Malaysian Mobile phone numbers leaked online, authorities confirmed data were stolen from government servers and databases at a dozen telcos. Millions of Malaysians have been affected by a major data breach, hackers have accessed 46.2 million cellphone accounts after they broke into government servers and databases at a dozen telcos in the country. Considering that the population […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2017
Silence Group is borrowing Carbanak TTPs in ongoing bank attacks

A cybercrime gang called Silence targeted at least 10 banks in Russia, Armenia, and Malaysia borrowing hacking techniques from the Carbanak group. A cybercrime gang called Silence targeted at least 10 banks in Russia, Armenia, and Malaysia borrowing hacking techniques from the dreaded Carbanak hacker group that stole as much as $1 billion from banks worldwide. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2017
WordPress releases the version 4.8.3 to address a serious SQL Injection vulnerability

WordPress developers fixed a serious SQL injection vulnerability on Tuesday with the release of version 4.8.3.. Apply it as soon as possible. WordPress developers fixed a serious SQL injection vulnerability that was reported by the researcher Anthony Ferrara,  VP of engineering at Lingo Live. The issue was addressed on Tuesday with the release of version 4.8.3. The vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2017
Oracle issues an emergency patch for a bug in Oracle Identity Manager, apply it now!

Oracle fixed a flaw in Oracle Identity Manager that was rated with a CVSS v3 score of 10.0 and can result in complete compromise of the software via an unauthenticated network attack. Oracle issued an emergency patch for a vulnerability in Oracle Identity Manager, the flaw tracked as CVE-2017-10151 was rated 10 in severity on the CVSS scale. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2017
MBR-ONI ransomware involved in targeted attacks against Japanese organizations

MBR-ONI is a new ransomware that is being used for targeted attacks in Japan, experts speculate it was used to cover larger hacking campaigns. MBR-ONI is a new ransomware that is being used for targeted attacks in Japan, it is a bootkit ransomware that uses a modified version of the legitimate open-source disk encryption utility DiskCryptor to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2017
Experts spotted a new strain of the Sage Ransomware that implements Anti-Analysis capabilities

Security experts from Fortinet spotted a new strain of the Sage ransomware that included new functionalities, such as anti-analysis capabilities. Sage 2.0 is a new ransomware first observed in December and not now it is distributed via malicious spam. Sage is considered a variant of CryLocker ransomware, it is being distributed by the Sundown and RIG exploit kits. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2017
FireEye releases GoCrack, a free managed Password Cracking Tool

Early this week FireEye released a managed password cracking tool, dubbed GoCrack, that is able to execute tasks across multiple GPU servers. Early this week FireEye released a managed password cracking tool, dubbed GoCrack, that is able to execute tasks across multiple GPU servers. GoCrack is an open source tool developed by FireEye’s Innovation and Custom Engineering […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2017
Vulnerabilities in Google Issue Tracker exposed details about unpatched flaws

A flaw in the Google Issue Tracker, also known as the “Buganizer,” might have exposed details about unpatched flaws listed in the database. A vulnerability in the Google Issue Tracker, also known as the “Buganizer,” might have exposed details about unpatched flaws listed in the database. The flaw was reported by the bug hunter Alex Birsan […]