Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2016
Exploit kit traffic drops by 96% since April, what is happening?

The exploit kit landscape is rapidly changing,the Angler and Nuclear EK disappeared and overall malicious traffic drops by 96% since April. As highlighted by security experts the threat landscape is in continuous evolution, despite the criminal underground was monopolized by Angler and Nuclear exploit kits for several years other EKs represent a serious threat to online […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 65 – 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 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 How to bypass two-factor authentication with a text message WauchulaGhost targets ISIS Twitter Accounts and floods them with […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2016
FBI has a facial recognition system that can access 411 million photos

According to the US GAO the FBI’s Next Generation Identification facial recognition system has access to 411.9M photos of Americans and foreigners alike. When we talk about technology, privacy and security are concepts that are often at odds. Let’s think for example of a facial recognition system, this technology could be used in many contexts […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2016
Hackers find a way to send massive messages on Telegram

Security researchers have found a vulnerability that could allow attackers to send massive messages on Telegram bypassing its limitations. Security researchers have devised a method to send massive messages on Telegram. The experts have found a flaw that allows them so send messages of any size as showed in the proof-of-concept provided by the researchers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 64 – 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 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! Old CVE-2014-3704 flaw in Drupal still exploited in attacks Sh0ping.su hacked, stolen card data and accounts […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2016
How to recover files encrypted by all Teslacrypt Ransomware variants

Experts from Cisco Talos team have improved their decryptor tool to allow the recovery of files encrypted by all the Teslacrypt Ransomware variants In May, criminals behind the TeslaCrypt ransomware leaked online the master encryption key that allowed security experts to develop a decryption tool for the last variant of the threat. “In surprising end to TeslaCrypt, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2016
European Union Websites plagued by SQL Injection Flaws

Experts have discovered several SQL injection vulnerabilities in the European Union Websites, the European Parliament and the European Commission sites The security experts Vulnerability Lab CEO Benjamin Kunz Mejri and Marco Onorati have discovered a number of SQL injection vulnerabilities in the websites of the European Parliament and the European Commission. The exploitation of the flaws in […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2016
WEEKLY DIGEST – THREAT INTELLIGENCE FEED – MAY 31st  – June 8th  2016

Global Intelligence Insight, working with SecurityAffairs and SecurityMediaPublishing deliver a weekly report on issues in Syria and Iraq as well as extremist related global terrorism. GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE INSIGHT Global Intelligence Insight, working with SecurityAffairs and SecurityMediaPublishing will deliver a weekly report on issues in Syria and Iraq as well as extremist related global terrorism. Data […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2016
Facebook fixed a flaw in the Messenger App.Doubts on its severity

Security experts discovered a security vulnerability in the Facebook Messenger App that allows hackers to replace the content of the messages they send. Security experts from Check Point early this week reported a serious vulnerability in the Facebook Messanger App that could be exploited by attackers to replace the content of the messages they send […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2016
As of the end of March, 93 percent of all phishing emails contained ransomware

The anti-phishing company PhishMe that observed that as of the end of March 93 percent of all phishing emails contained a ransomware. Ransomware is becoming a privileged instrument of cyber criminals to rapidly earn money, the diffusion of this type of threat is changing the threat landscape scenario, for example, as of the end of March, […]