Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2016
The servers of the Steam gaming platform and Origin are down. Phantom Squad and PoodleCorp are claiming responsibility for the attacks. It’s holiday time and hackers can transform this period in a nightmare for gamers. Two years ago Lizard Squad hackers took down the networks of Sony PSN and Microsoft XBox Live. Now the notorious Phantom Squad […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2016
An expert found flaws in NETGEAR WNR2000 routers that could be remotely exploited by an attacker to take full control of the affected device. The security expert Pedro Ribeiro discovered vulnerabilities in NETGEAR WNR2000 Routers, including a zero-day flaw, that could be exploited remotely to take full control of the device if remote administration is enabled. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! President Obama orders full review of alleged Russian hacking in US Election Georgia traced an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2016
Security researchers discovered a new phishing campaign leveraging Punycode and a bug in Office 365 defense systems to deceive victims. Office 365 business email users continue to be the target of phishing campaigns, a new wave of attacks was leveraging Punycode to avoid detection of Microsoft’s default security and desktop email filters. Punycode is a method added […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2016
A security flaw was discovered in some NetGear routers that could be easily exploited by a remote attacker to gain root access on the device and remotely run code. Some versions of Netgear routers remain affected by a security flaw that could be exploited by hackers to gain root access on the device and remotely […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2016
Waiting for security patches, the CERT/CC suggests to stop using Netgear R7000 and R6400 routers to avoid being hacked. Other routers potentially exposed. IoT devices are privileged targets for threat actors, the Mirai botnet is the demonstration of the effects of a massive attack powered with smart objects, including routers, CCTV and DVRs. Now the security experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2016
Malware researchers from the MalwareHunterTeam have discovered a new strain of ransomware dubbed Popcorn Time on the Dark Web. Malware researchers from MalwareHunterTeam have spotted a new ransomware, dubbed Popcorn Time, that appears to be still under development. The researchers at MalwareHunterTeam found the Popcorn Time ransomware code on the Dark Web. This ransomware comes with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2016
On Tuesday night, a group of unknown hackers took control of the Israeli TV broadcast Channel 2 and played Muslim call to prayer. On Tuesday night, a group of hackers took control of an Israeli news Channel 2 and played Muslim call to prayer. The hackers want to protest a controversial bill that limits the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Hackers offer a huge Mirai botnet as a DDoS-for-hire service Scammers advertise backdoored phishing templates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Surveillance solutions from Moxa and Vanderbilt firm affected by flaws A second backdoor in a […]
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