Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 120 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·      Crooks used Infrared insert skimmers in a recent wave of ATM attacks ·      Did you receive a WhatsApp subscription ending email or text? Watch out! ·      Hackshit PhaaS platform, even more easy to power Phishing campaigns […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 118 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·      FBI hacked a US Darknet shopper who tried to purchase Mail Bomb ·      NATO attributed the massive NotPetya attack to a ‘state actor and call for a joint investigation ·      NATO CCD COE attributed the massive […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2017
Ukrainian cyberpolice seized MeDoc servers while hackers withdrawn Bitcoin from NotPetya wallet

The Ukraine’s cyber police seized the MeDoc servers after detecting a new suspicious activity and fearing new malware-based attacks. The Ukrainian authorities have seized equipment from the online accounting firm MeDoc which is suspected to have had a significant role in the recent NotPetya attack. The Ukraine’s cyber police have seized the servers after detecting a new suspicious activity, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2017
Why AA didn’t inform customers after a massive data leak

A backup containing sensitive information on more than 100,000 AA customers was exposed online, but the company didn’t disclose the incident. UK car insurance company AA is being heavily criticized over its handling of a data breach that exposed customer email addresses and partial credit card number in April. A server misconfiguration is the root cause […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2017
NotPetya – Ukraine secret service announces a joint investigation with Europol, FBI, and NCA

Ukraine secret service announces joint investigation with Europol, FBI, and NCA to attribute the recent Notpetya massive attack. While security experts are investigating real motivation behind the massive NotPetya attack, Ukrainian authorities called for support in the investigation from European and US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. The country’s security service SBU announced the international co-operation […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 116 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·      BAE Systems accused of selling mass surveillance software Evident across the Middle East ·      Facebook inadvertently revealed moderators identities to suspected terrorists ·      Kasperagent malware used in a new campaign leveraging Palestine-Themed decoy files ·      Security […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2017
Stealing AES-256 keys in seconds using €200 of off-the-shelf components

Security experts at Fox‑IT have demonstrated that is possible sniff AES-256 encryption keys from a distance of one meter (3.3 feet) with a cheap equipment. Security experts at Fox‑IT have demonstrated that is possible to power a side-channel attack to wirelessly extract secret AES-256 encryption keys from a distance of one meter (3.3 feet). The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2017
US intelligence claims Russian hackers probed electoral networks in 21 US states

According to the US intelligence, Russian hackers tried to compromise electoral networks in 21 unnamed US states, but voting tallies hadn’t been hacked. According to Homeland Security officials, the attack against the 2016 Presidential election was more sophisticated than first thought. In a public hearing into the Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election held by […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2017
Drupal fixes the CVE-2017-6922 flaw exploited in spam campaigns in the wild

Drupal team released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities, including the critical access bypass flaw CVE-2017-6922 exploited in spam campaigns. The Drupal development team has released security updates to fix several vulnerabilities, including the critical access bypass flaw tracked as CVE-2017-6922 that has been exploited in spam campaigns. The CVE-2017-6922 flaw was fixed with the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 115 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·      Critical kernel command line injection flaw found in Motorola handsets MOTO G4, G5 ·      Police seized two Tor relays investigating WannaCry attack, others disappeared in the same period ·      US Defense is working on new multifactor […]