Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2019
With the advent of this year’s holiday shopping season are cybercriminals are using carding bots to test stolen payment card data before using them. Cybercriminals need to test the validity of the stolen card data before carrying out fraudulent transactions or selling them during the holiday shopping season. Cybercriminals are automating this process using carding […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Bad News: AI and 5G Are Expected to Worsen Cybersecurity Risks Boardriders and its subsidiarities QuikSilver and Billabong infected with ransomware Major ASP.NET hosting provider SmarterASP hit by ransomware attack Apple Mail stores parts of encrypted emails in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2019
The Tianfu Cup 2019 International Cyber Security Competition has started, in two days white hat hackers will attempt to exploit flaws in major software. The Tianfu Cup 2019 International Cyber Security Competition has started, white hat hackers will attempt to devise working zero-day exploits for popular software. Each working exploit receives a cash prize and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2019
Researchers discovered a vulnerability in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 programmable logic controller (PLC) that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable devices. Researchers discovered an undocumented access feature in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 programmable logic controller (PLC) that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected devices. The feature was discovered by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2019
The popular messaging platform WhatsApp made the headlines again, a new bug could be exploited by hackers to secretly install spyware. According to the website The Hacker News, WhatsApp has recently fixed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11931, that could have allowed attackers to remotely compromise targeted devices. The CVE-2019-11931 is a stack-based buffer overflow issue […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2019
A working exploit for the checkm8 BootROM vulnerability is now available and security experts fear that threat actors could use is in attacks in the wild. This week, the “unpatchable” jailbreak, known as Checkra1n, for the checkm8 BootROM vulnerability was officially released potentially threatening millions of devices. “This release is an early beta preview and as such […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2019
Sergiy P. , the administrator of DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. Sergiy P. Usatyuk, a man that was operating several DDoS-for-hire services was sentenced to 13 months in prison, and additional three years of supervised release. DDoS-for-hire services, aka stressers or booters, allows crooks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2019
The computer network of Australian Parliament was hacked earlier this year, and hackers exfiltrated data from the computers of several elected officials. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC), earlier this year hackers penetrated the computer network of Australian Parliament and stole data from the computers of several elected officials. The attack took place on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2019
A new threat actor tracked as TA2101 is conducting malware campaigns using email to impersonate government agencies in the United States, Germany, and Italy. A new threat actor, tracked as TA2101, is using email to impersonate government agencies in the United States, Germany, and Italy to multiple families of malware, deliver ransomware, and banking Trojans. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2019
Visa Payment Fraud Disruption warns of a new JavaScript skimmer dubbed Pipka used to siphon payment data from e-commerce merchant websites. Visa Payment Fraud Disruption warns of a new JavaScript skimmer dubbed Pipka that was used by crooks to steal payment data from e-commerce merchant websites. Experts discovered the Pipka while investigating an e-commerce website […]
