Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2016
The SWIFT announced that a second commercial bank was a victim of a cyber heist, the crime appears to be part of a broad online attack on global banking. A second malware-based attack hit the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system. The news was spread by the SWIFT on Thursday, the attack has many similarities with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2016
Recently security experts at Cisco Talos have discovered multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in 7-Zip that open users to cyber attacks. According to the Cisco security researcher Jaeson Schultz, multiple flaws in the 7-Zip compression tool could be exploited by hackers to gain the complete control on the target machine running the popular software. “Recently Cisco Talos has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Pirate Bay visitors infected with Cerber ransomware via bad ads The British GCHQ has disclosed dozens vulnerabilities this year Garage4hackers Webcast – Bypass Modern WAFs Exemplified at XSS Security Affairs newsletter Round 58 – News of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2016
Mandiant – FireEye has disclosed the details of a serious information disclosure vulnerability affecting one of the Qualcomm software package widely used. Security researchers from the Mandiant firm have discovered a “high severity” vulnerability in the Qualcomm tethering controller (CVE-2016-2060) that could be exploited by a malicious application to access user information. Recently Google released an Android update that addresses […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Snap packaging could reveal private data in Ubuntu 16.04 version Bangladesh Bank hacked due to inadequate defense systems Dutch police seize the Ennetcom encrypted communication network Security Affairs newsletter Round 57 – News of the week The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2016
The data intelligence firm Flashpoint has published an interesting report that explore the cyber capabilities of the ISIS radical group. In the last days of April, Flashpoint a global leader in Deep and Dark Web data and intelligence published a report that is dedicated to the analysis of cyber capabilities of the ISIS with the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2016
The Dutch police in an international effort with Canadian authorities seized the Ennetcom encrypted communication network used by 19,000 users. Another success of the Dutch law enforcement against the cybercrime. The police arrested the owner of Ennetcom, a provider of encrypted communications with more than 19,000 customers. Prosecutors suspect he was using the business to manage […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2016
Facebook hacked! The security expert Orange Tsai discovered the presence of a malicious webshell on one of the company servers. The security expert Orange Tsai from the DevCore firm has found a malicious web shell on Facebook Server. The researcher was analyzing the Facebook’s infrastructure when noticed a domain called files.fb.com. Intrigued, the expert has tried to access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2016
Security experts eavesdropped and geographic tracked a US Congressman only using his phone number by abusing the SS7 protocol. Hackers eavesdropped and geographic tracked a US Congressman only using his phone number. Security experts will be no surprised, I wrote many articles on the topic explaining that security flaws in the SS7 protocol could be exploited by an attacker to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2016
New evidence collected by prosecutors shows lottery machines were rigged to generate predictable numbers on specific days of the year. Last year, the security director of a US lottery was discovered hacking the mechanism of the extraction in order to predict the winning tickets. According to new details revealed by The Des Moines Register, the […]
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