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Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2016
Merry Xmas, @Kapustkiy hacked Russian Visa center in USA

The notorious white hat hacker Kapustkiy hacked the Russian Visa Center in the USA and accessed information of around 3000 individuals. The Russian Visa Center is an organization that helps Americans to obtain Russian Visa, this morning the white hat hacker Kapustkiy informed me that he broke into the database its website and accessed data of around […]

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 25, 2016
Moscow wants Apple to unlock iPhone of the killer of the Russian Ambassador

The Russian and Turkish authorities asked Apple to unlock iPhone belonging to the assassin of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov. The Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was killed on Monday during an exhibition in Ankara. The killer is a lone Turkish gunman that shouted “God is great!” and “don’t forget Aleppo, don’t forget Syria!” The shooter was killed […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2016
Hackers breached the “The Standard Hong Kong” newspaper

The hacker @Cryptolulz666 and his colleague @EvoIsGod have broken into the website of the Hong Kong English newspaper “The Standard Hong Kong” (www.thestandard.com.hk) The hackers breached the database of the website and uploaded data to Pastebin. I reached the hackers who confirmed to have hacked the website by exploiting a SQL Injection flaw in their CMS. The hackers posted only […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2016
Hackers want to take down Xbox Live and PSN on Christmas Day

Christmas time is a critical period for the gaming industry that is threatened by hackers that want to paralyze their services with massive attacks. Yesterday I reported the DDoS attacks launched by Phantom Squad and PoodleCorp against Steam and Origin Servers, and unfortunately they are not alone. Hackers threaten to take down Xbox Live and PSN […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 24, 2016
Facebook hack allowed to disclose email address for each FB user

A Facebook hack could have been exploited to retrieve the private email address of any user with a serious impact on the privacy. A smart Facebook hack allowed to retrieve the private email address of any user. The issue was discovered by the hacker Tommy DeVoss who awarded with $5,000 under the Facebook Bug bounty program. […]

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 23, 2016
Cyber attacks against the healthcare industry are expected to grow

The number of cyber attacks against organizations in the healthcare industry is increasing, this trend is expected to continue in 2017. The monitoring of the activity in the cyber criminal underground is essential for investigators and security experts. The value of illegal products and services gives us a precious information on cyber criminal trends. Security experts […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2016
Signal implements ‘domain fronting’ technique to bypass censorship

The latest update of Signal introduces the ‘domain fronting’ technique that has been implemented to circumvent censorship. Signal is considered the most secure instant messaging app, searching for it on the Internet it is possible to read the Edward Snowden’ testimony: “Use anything by Open Whisper Systems” Snowden says. The Cryptographer and Professor at Johns Hopkins […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2016
A flaw in Cisco CloudCenter Orchestrator exploited by hackers in the wild

Cisco is warning customers about a critical privilege escalation flaw that has been exploited in attacks against the Cisco CloudCenter Orchestrator systems. Cisco has warned its customers of a critical privilege escalation flaw in Cisco CloudCenter Orchestrator systems, tracked as CVE-2016-9223, that has been exploited in cyber attacks. The Cisco CloudCenter is a hybrid cloud management […]