Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2017
Major Banking Applications were found vulnerable to MiTM attacks over SSL

Security experts discovered a critical vulnerability in major mobile banking applications that left banking credentials vulnerable to hackers. A group of security researchers has discovered a critical vulnerability in major mobile banking applications that left banking credentials vulnerable to hackers. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers of the Security and Privacy Group at the University […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2017
Process Doppelgänging Attack allows evading most security software on all Windows Versions

Experts devised a new attack technique dubbed Process Doppelgänging, that could be implemented by vxers to bypass most antivirus solutions. A group of security researchers from Ensilo discovered a new malware evasion technique, dubbed Process Doppelgänging, that could be implemented by vxers to bypass most antivirus solutions and security software. The technique is a fileless code […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2017
Introducing ProtonMail Bridge, email encryption for Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail

ProtonMail is officially launching ProtonMail Bridge, which brings easy-to-use email encryption to desktop email clients. Ever since the day that we first got the idea to create ProtonMail, one of the most enduring challenges has been how to do email security right while simultaneously making encrypted email easy enough to use for normal people. Since […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2017
NiceHash Hacked – Crooks have allegedly stolen $60m worth of Bitcoin

The cryptocurrency mining market NiceHash confirmed it has fallen victim to a hacking attack that may have resulted in the loss of $60m worth of Bitcoin Cryptocurrency companies continue to be a privileged target of hackers, the last victim in order of time is the cryptocurrency mining market NiceHash.  The NiceHash marketplace allows users to buy […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2017
MailSploit vulnerabilities allow email spoofing with more than 30 email clients

A security researcher discovered a collection of vulnerabilities dubbed MailSploit affecting more than 30 popular email client software. Email spoofing is quite simple and it is an important activity in any phishing/spear phishing attack. Attackers modify email headers and send an email with the forged sender address to trick recipients into opening the message believing they […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2017
TeamViewer fixes a flaw that allows users sharing a desktop session to gain control of the other’s PC

TeamViewer released a patch to fix a vulnerability that allows users sharing a desktop session to gain control of the other’s computer without permission. Remote support software company TeamViewer released a patch to address a vulnerability that allows users sharing a desktop session to gain control of the other’s computer without permission. TeamViewer confirmed the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2017
DJI drones may be sending data about U.S. critical infrastructure and law enforcement to China

The US DHS has accused the Chinese Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI) of cyber espionage on U.S. critical infrastructure and law enforcement. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has recently accused the Chinese Da-Jiang Innovations (DJI), one of the largest drone manufacturers, of sending sensitive information about U.S. critical infrastructure and law enforcement to China. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2017
Global operation allowed law enforcement agencies to take down the Andromeda Botnet

A joint international operation conducted by the FBI, law enforcement agencies in Europe and private partners managed to dismantle the Andromeda botnet. A joint international operation conducted by the FBI and law enforcement agencies in Europe managed to dismantle the dreaded Andromeda botnet (aka Gamarue and Wauchos) last week. The Andromeda botnet has been around since 2011, it was […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2017
Experts discovered a new variant of Shadow BTCware Ransomware Variant

The security expert Michael Gillespie discovered a new variant of the Shadow BTCware Ransomware which is manually installed on unsecured systems. The security expert Michael Gillespie discovered a new variant of the BTCWare ransomware, the malicious code was spread by hacking into poorly protected remote desktop services and manually installed by crooks. The new Shadow BTCware Ransomware variant appends the .[email]-id-id.shadow extension to the encrypted files, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2017
RSA Authentication SDK affected by two critical vulnerabilities, patch it now!

Two different critical vulnerabilities were found in the RSA Authentication SDK (software development kit), patch them asap. The first bug, tracked as  CVE-2017-14377, is authentication bypass that affects the RSA Authentication Agent for Web for Apache Web Server. The flaw could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated user by sending a crafted packet that triggers a validation error, in […]