Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2017
Further investigation on the attacks against Polish banks allowed Symantec to determine that North Korean Lazarus APT group was behind recent attacks on banks. According to malware researchers at Symantec, the North Korean APT group Lazarus was likely behind a recent string of cyber attacks against organizations in 31 countries. According to Symantec, the Lazarus […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2017
New APT Campaign based on Poison Ivy RAT with C&C in China has been reversed by MalwareMustDie who shared a lot of interesting details about the attack vectors and reverse techniques. Our travel along the great analysis of a fresh, new insidious APT China campaign. An ordinary case of phishing? At the beginning, it seemed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2017
Pwn2Own 2017 is started, as usual, it is a great event to see hackers at work. In the first day, experts hacked Edge, Safari, Ubuntu, and Adobe Reader. Pwn2Own 2017 competition held in Vancouver (Canada) is started, as usual, it is a great event to see hackers at work. In the first day Bug bounty hunters […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2017
A flaw recently fixed in the Linux kernel tracked as CVE-2017-2636 might have been exploited to gain privilege escalation or cause a DoS condition. The security expert Alexander Popov from Positive Technologies has discovered a race condition in the n_hdlc driver that might be exploited by attackers for privilege escalation in the operating system. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-2636, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2017
Drupal development team has issued a new release of the popular content management system (CMS), Drupal version 8.2.7, that fixes multiple vulnerabilities. The Drupal development team has released the Drupal version 8.2.7 that addressed a number of vulnerabilities in the popular CMS. The list of flaws includes an access bypass issue, a cross-site request forgery […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2017
The US authorities charged two former Russian FSB agents and two hackers for 2014 Yahoo data breach that caused the exposure of 500 Million Yahoo Accounts. Last year it was disclosed the news of the 2014 Yahoo data breach that compromised over 500 million Yahoo user accounts. At the time of the public disclosure made by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2017
A single picture could have been used by attackers to hack the popular secure messaging applications WhatsApp and Telegram. Security experts from Checkpoint have discovered a vulnerability that was present in both messaging services. The hack only affected the browser-based versions of both WhatsApp and Telegram. The flaw affected the way both apps process images and multimedia […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2017
Turkey vs Holland – Hackers launched a massive hacking campaign that hijacked hundreds of High-Profile Accounts to spread political messages against Holland. A huge number of high-profile Twitter accounts have been hijacked following the recent diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands. The hackers posted through many Twitter accounts political messages in the Turkish language including a link […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2017
Great news for macOS users who were infected by the FindZip macOS ransomware, Avast released a decryption tool for free. Good news for macOS users who were infected by the FindZip ransomware, now a decryption tool was released online for free. The FindZip macOS ransomware was spotted last month by researchers at ESET, it is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2017
Canada Revenue Agency confirmed it shut down its website for filing federal taxes due to a cyber attack leveraging the CVE-2017-5638 flaw in Apache Struts 2 The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) confirmed it shut down its website for filing federal taxes after hackers broke into the server at the nation’s statistics bureau. The security breach occurred […]
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