Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2017
US authorities indicted the suspected operator of the Kelihos Botnet

The Russian hacker Petr Levashov has been indicted in connection with the infamous Kelihos Botnet that was recently dismantled. It isn’t a good period for Russian cyber criminals, last week Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, aka “Track2”, was sentenced to 27 years in prison, he was convicted of causing $170 million in damage by hacking into point-of-sale systems. Today the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2017
Denmark blamed Russia APT28 group for cyber intrusions in Defense Ministry Emails

Denmark on Monday denounced Russia after the publication of a report that accused Russian APT28 of hacking the defense ministry’s email accounts. Today the Danish Government officially blamed Russia for cyber attacks against its Defense Ministry. Denmark denounced a cyber intrusion in several Defense Ministry’s email accounts. The accusation comes after the publishing by the Centre for Cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2017
Fake app hiding a SMSVova spyware went undetected for years in the Google Play Stores

Millions of users looking to get software updates have downloaded an app hiding a spyware called SMSVova through the official Google Play store. Bad news for millions of Android users looking to get software updates, they have been tricked into downloading a spyware called SMSVova through the official Google Play store. Experts at Zscaler discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2017
Terror EK rising in the threat landscape while Sundown EK drops

The Sundown EK has been inactive since early this year, the Terror EK is being very popular in the cybercriminal ecosystem. One year ago the Angler EK and Nuclear EK disappeared from the threat landscape, while the Sundown EK was conquering the criminal underground. What’s happening now? The Sundown EK has been inactive since early this year, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 107 – 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 ·      Millions of mobile phones and laptops potentially exposed to attack leveraging baseband zero-days ·      ATMitch – […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2017
Microsoft says it has fixed exploits leaked by Shadow Brokers in March

Microsoft determined that most of the flaws exploited by the tools in the dump released by Shadow Brokers yesterday were patched in March. Yesterday the Shadow Brokers hacker group has released a new portion of the alleged archive of the NSA containing hacking tools and exploits. The group released a 117.9 MB encrypted dump containing […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2017
Hackers can steal PINs and Passwords capturing data from smartphone sensors

A group of researchers has demonstrated that attackers can steal PINs and Passwords capturing data from smartphone sensors. Modern mobile devices are full of sensors (i.e. GPS, Camera, microphone, accelerometer, magnetometer, proximity, gyroscope, pedometer, and NFC) that could be exploited by hackers to gather data about owner’s activities? A group of researchers from Newcastle University demonstrated that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2017
Watch out! Shadow Brokers dump includes remote root exploits for Solaris boxes

The security expert Matthew Hickey has discovered two tools dubbed EXTREMEPARR and EBBISLAND which were specifically designed to target Solaris systems. After the mysterious Shadow Brokers group has leaked the archive containing the stolen NSA hacking tools and exploits, security experts started analyzing the huge trove of data. Experts discovered that NSA operators developed an attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 106 – 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 ·      Android Chrysaor spyware went undetected for years ·      UEFI Vulnerabilities allow to fully compromise Gigabyte Mini […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2017
Cyber Risk and Cyber Insurance – Insurance challenge to the CIO as corporate Cyber Security Effectiveness manager

[By Cesare Burei, Margas on courtesy of @CLUSIT – Rapporto Clusit 2017 – All right reserved] Until the corporate Risk Managers dealing with Cyber Risk, and there are not many of these, start working at all levels, who shall be entrusted with the management of Cyber Risks and, more specifically, with the transfer of risk […]