Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2018
Hacker Group Makes $3 Million by Installing Monero Miners on Jenkins Servers A criminal organization has made $3.4 million by compromising Jenkins servers and installing a Monero cryptocurrency miner dubbed JenkinsMiner. “The perpetrator, allegedly of Chinese origin, has been running the XMRig miner on many versions of Windows, and has already secured him over $3 million worth […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2018
On Saturday, Germany defense minister Ursula von der Leyen told CNBC that cyber attacks are the greatest challenge threatening global stability. The cybersecurity is a pillar of modern states, the string of recent massive attacks including NotPetya and WannaCry is the demonstration that we are all potential targets. Cyber attacks could hit governments, private companies and citizens in every […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · FSB arrested researchers at the Russian Federation Nuclear Center for using a supercomputer to mine Bitcoins · Hackers are exploiting the CVE-2018-0101 CISCO ASA flaw in attacks in the wild · Thousands of websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
Online safety for your kids is very important. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it needs to be hard work. The key thing is to learn how to get parental controls set up properly so that you won’t have to worry as much about online safety when your kids start to use the internet for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
Researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam spotted a new strain of ransomware called Saturn Ransomware, the name derives from the .saturn extension it appends to the name of the encrypted files. Currently, the malware requests victims of $300 USD payment that doubles after 7 days. Once infected a system, the Saturn Ransomware checks if it is running in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2018
A new attack against the SWIFT system made the headlines again, unknown hackers have stolen 339.5 million roubles (roughly $6 million) from a Russian bank last year. The news of the attack against the international payments messaging system was reported on Friday by the Russian central bank, this is the last incident of a long string […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
Researchers discovered an Amazon S3 bucket contains personal information and scans of IDs of some 119,000 US and international citizens. It has happened again, researchers discovered another unsecured Amazon S3 bucket holding a huge trove of data that was exposed online. The Amazon S3 bucket contains personal information and scans of IDs of some 119,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. OpenSSL adds TLS 1.3 supports in the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that was announced this week. TLS protocol was designed to allow client/server applications to communicate over the Internet in a secure way preventing message forgery, eavesdropping, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
Researchers discovered a new dangerous text bomb that crashes Apple devices, only a single character of the Indian Telugu language could create the chaos. A new ‘text bomb’ threatens Apple devices, just a single character of the Indian alphabet (precisely the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in India by about 70 million people) can crash your device […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2018
Dell EMC addressed two critical vulnerabilities that affect the management interfaces for its VMAX enterprise storage systems. The Dell EMC’s VMAX Virtual Appliance (vApp) Manager is an essential component of a wide range of the enterprise storage systems. The first flaw tracked as CVE-2018-1215 is an arbitrary file upload vulnerability that could be exploited by a […]
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