Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2018
Sony Bravia Smart TVs affected by a critical vulnerability

Experts at FortiGuard Labs team discovered three vulnerabilities in eight Sony Bravia smart TVs, one of them rated as critical. Patch management is a crucial aspect for IoT devices, smart objects are surrounding us and represent a privileged target for hackers. Experts at FortiGuard Labs team discovered three vulnerabilities (a stack buffer overflow, a directory traversal, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2018
Windows 10 October 2018 Update could cause CCleaner stop working

Users are reporting problems with the CCleaner software that appears to be partially broken after the installation of Windows 10 October 2018 Update Many Windows users are reporting problems after the installation of Windows 10 October 2018 Update, a few days ago a Reddit user discovered the Task Manager tool was showing inaccurate CPU usage after the upgrade. Other users […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2018
Silk Road admin pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges and faces up to 20 years in prison

Gary Davis, one of the admins and moderators of the notorious Silk Road black marketplace, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges. Gary Davis is an Irish national (20) who was one of the admins and moderators of the notorious Silk Road black marketplace, on Friday he pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges. “Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2018
Sales intel firm Apollo data breach exposed more than 200 million contact records

The sales intelligence firm Apollo is the last victim of a massive data breach that exposed more than 200 million contact records. Apollo collects a lot of its information from public sources, including names, email addresses, and company contact information, it also gathers data by scraping Twitter and LinkedIn. The company already notified the security breach to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2018
US DoJ indicted 7 Russian Intelligence officers for attacking Anti-Doping Organizations

US DoJ indicted seven defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. The news of the day is that a US DoJ indicted seven defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. The defendants are […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2018
Experts warns of a new extortion campaign based on the Breach Compilation archive

Cybaze ZLab spotted a new scam campaign that is targeting some of its Italian customers, crooks leverage credentials in Breach Compilation archive. Security experts from Cybaze ZLab have spotted a new scam campaign that is targeting some of its Italian customers. Crooks attempted to monetize the availability of a huge quantity of credentials available in […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2018
Canada blames Russia for cyber attacks against its structures

The Government of Canada blamed the GRU, the Russian military’s intelligence agency, for cyber attacks at the Montreal-based World Anti-Doping Agency. “The government of Canada assesses with high confidence that the Russian military’s intelligence arm, the GRU, was responsible” for these cyber attacks, the foreign ministry said in a statement. [cyber attacks are] “part of a broader […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2018
CVE-2018-4251 – Apple did not disable Intel Manufacturing Mode in its laptops

Positive Technologies while analyzing Intel Management Engine (ME) discovered that Apple did not disable Intel Manufacturing Mode in its laptops Experts from security firm Positive Technologies while analyzing Intel Management Engine (ME) discovered that Apple forgot did not lock it in laptops. The Intel Management Engine consists of a microcontroller that works with the Platform Controller Hub chip, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2018
US offers its cyber warfare defense capabilities to NATO

The United States will offer its offensive cyber capabilities to NATO to strengthen its defenses against threat actors like Russian ones. The United States is expected to announce to provide cyber warfare capabilities to NATO to strengthen its defenses against threat actors like Russian ones. The announcement is expected today at a meeting of defence ministers in Brussels, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2018
APT38 is behind financially motivated attacks carried out by North Korea

Security experts from FireEye published a report on the activity of financially motivated threat actors, tracked as APT38, linked to the North Korean government. The attacks aimed at financial institutions, FireEye estimates APT38 has stolen at least a hundred million dollars from banks worldwide. APT38 appears to be a North Korea-linked group separate from the […]