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Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2016

CrySis ransomware decryption keys published online

The decryption keys for the CrySis ransomware were posted online on the BleepingComputer.com forum by a user known as crss7777. Good news for the victims of the CrySis ransomware, on Sunday the master decryption keys were released to the public. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have already included the decryption keys in the Rakhni decryptor allowing victims […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2016

Security Affairs newsletter Round 86 – News of the week

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! Commercial Exaspy spyware used to target high-level executives Watch out! A new LinkedIn Phishing campaign […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2016

Security Affairs newsletter Round 85 – News of the week

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! AV-TEST study sees search engine results even more poisoned with malicious links LDAP as attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2016

Critical DOM XSS flaw on Wix.com put million websites at risk

A DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability in the cloud-based development platform Wix.com put million websites at risk. The cloud-based development platform Wix.com is affected by a DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to gain full control over any website running on the popular platform. Millions of websites hosted on Wix.com are potentially […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2016

Security Affairs newsletter Round 84 – News of the week

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! Linux.BackDoor.FakeFile.1, a new Linux backdoor in the wild American hacker The Jester defaced a Russian […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2016

Security Affairs newsletter Round 83 – News of the week

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! The Mirai botnet is targeting also Sierra Wireless cellular data gear products US is thinking […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2016

Massive DDoS attack against Dyn DNS service, how and why

A massive DDoS attack targeted the Dyn DNS service and caused an extended Internet outage. How the attackers powered the attack? Yesterday a massive DDoS attack targeted the DNS service of the Dyn company, one of the most authoritative domain name system (DNS) provider, and caused an extended Internet outage. A large portion of Internet users was not able […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2016

US contractor stole an astonishing quantity of data, including Equation Group tools

The US DoJ has charged the US contractor Harold Thomas Martin with theft of secret documents and highly classified government material. A couple of months ago, the FBI announced the arrest of an NSA contractor, Harold Thomas Martin III, over a massive secret data theft. The US DoJ has charged Harold Thomas Martin (51) with theft […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2016

Ops also the Trump Organization uses insecure e-mail servers

According to a security researcher, the Trump Organization’s mail servers run on an outdated version of Microsoft Windows Server. Hillary Clinton is over in the storm for the violation of its private email server, even Trump has used the case to attack the rival. The irony of fate, now we are here discussing because also Trump’s staff […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2016

NRSC hack – financial data of donors were sent to a Russian domain

NRSC hack – A platform used by the National Republican Senatorial Committee for the donations was hacked and donors’ financial data have been exposed. Other rumors around the Presidential Election, once again, it’s a hacking story in the headlines, the NRSC hack. Donations sent to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) between March 16 and October 5, 2016 on […]