Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2018
The popular British hacker Lauri Love (33) will not be extradited to stand trial in the US, the High Court of England and Wales ruled. Lauri Love was accused of hacking into United States government websites, will not be extradited to stand trial in the U.S., the High Court of England and Wales ruled today. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2018
Security researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab have spotted a new Android mining botnet that targets devices with ADB interface open. Security researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab have spotted a new Android mining botnet over the weekend. The malicious code ADB.Miner targets Android devices by scanning for open ADB debugging interface (port 5555) and infects them with a Monero […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2018
According to security researchers at Cisco and FireEye a North Korea Hacking Group is behind the attacks that exploited the recently discovered Adobe Flash 0-Day vulnerability. There have been over 1,000 Adobe Flash vulnerabilities since it was released. Designed to make website development easier and providing additional features not supported by standard web browsers, it also adds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2018
The Israeli security researcher Barak Tawily a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-6389 that could be exploited to trigger DoS condition of WordPress websites. The expert explained that the CVE-2018-6389 flaw is an application-level DoS issued that affects the WordPress CMS and that could be exploited by an attacker even without a massive amount of malicious traffic. “In this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2018
Other problems for the Amazon Key technology, a hacker posted a video on Twitter to show how to access a locked door after a delivery worker’s one-time code has been used. Earlier in November, Amazon announced for its Prime members the Amazon Key, a program that would allow a delivery person to enter your home under […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2018
Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 5) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. The week began with massive cyber attacks against three Dutch banks and the National Tax Agency. Experts speculate the involvement of Russia because the attacks started after the revelation of the hack of the APT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2018
Cryptocurrencies are in the middle of a Tempest, on Thursday India announced it would adopt measures to prevent the use of virtual currencies in the country, the value of Bitcoin dropped below $9,000 for the first time since November. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his annual budget, explained its government would “take all measures to eliminate use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2018
Researchers at security firm Radware have spotted a new IoT botnet, dubbed JenX, the leverages the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices. Researchers at security firm Radware have spotted a new IoT botnet, dubbed JenX, that exploits vulnerabilities triggered by the Satori botnet and is leveraging the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2018
Trustwave disclosed two vulnerabilities in Western Digital My Cloud network storage devices could be exploited by a local attacker to gain root access to the NAS devices. Researchers at Trustwave disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Western Digital My Cloud network storage devices could be exploited by a local attacker to delete files stored on devices or to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2018
Chinese Iron Tiger APT is back, the new campaign, dubbed by Operation PZChao is targeting government, technology, education, and telecommunications organizations in Asia and the US. Malware researchers from Bitdefender have discovered and monitored for several months the activity of a custom-built backdoor capable of password-stealing, bitcoin-mining, and of course to gain full control of the […]
