Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 92 – 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 DNSChanger Exploit kit targets Home routers in malvertising campaign Security expert disclosed a full zero-day drive-by exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2016
Phantom Squad and PoodleCorp tango down against Steam and Origin Servers

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 18, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 91 – 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! President Obama orders full review of alleged Russian hacking in US Election Georgia traced an […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2016
Phishing campaign on Office 365 Business users leverages Punycode

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
Some versions of Netgear routers remain vulnerable to arbitrary command injection

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 09, 2016
Popcorn Time ransomware, pay up the ransom or spread it to decrypt the files

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
Israeli TV broadcast hacked, attackers played Muslim call to prayer

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
Security Affairs newsletter Round 89 – 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! Hackers offer a huge Mirai botnet as a DDoS-for-hire service Scammers advertise backdoored phishing templates […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 88 – 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! Surveillance solutions from Moxa and Vanderbilt firm affected by flaws A second backdoor in a […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2016
Kapustkiy joins the Powerful Greek Army and hacked High Commission of Ghana & Fiji in India

Kapustkiy hacked the High Commission of Ghana & Fiji in India, he also confirmed to have joined the Powerful Greek Army hacked crew. Last week, the hacker Kapustkiy, one of the most active hackers at this moment, hacked the India Regional Council, today he sent me a message to announce to have hacked the High Commission of […]