Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2016
The GeekedIn recruitment project scraped user data from GitHub and other similar websites, but data were inadvertently leaked online. The popular security expert Troy Hunt, who operates the data breach notification service the owner ‘Have I Been Pwned,’ recently received a 600 Mb MongoDB backup file containing data from a tech recruitment website called GeekedIn. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2016
Hacker Kapustkiy breached into an Italian Government website (Dipartimento della Funzione Pubblica) exposing 9,000 users of 45,000. A few days ago I was contacted by a young hacker that breached Indian embassies across the worlds, he goes online with the moniker Kapustkiy. Kapustkiy is a pentester that is targeting organizations and embassies across the world. Recently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2016
Cyber criminals are exploiting the capability of the Mirai botnet to use the STOMP Protocol to launch massive DDoS attacks. The Linux Mirai IoT malware is one of the most popular cyber threats in the moment, its botnet was used to power the massive attacks against the Dyn DNS service, OVH, Brian Krebsâ blog, and likely […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2016
According to Elcomsoft, iPhone and iPad automatically send call history to Apple when iCloud is enabled, the company stores the data for up to four months. According to the digital forensics firm Elcomsoft, Apple mobile devices automatically send call history to the company when the iCloud is enabled, it also stores the data for up […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2016
The UK carrier Three Mobile confirmed a major cyber security breach which could have exposed the personal data of millions of customers. Bad news for the UK carrier Three Mobile, cyber criminals have broken into a company database containing customer personal details, details of possibly six million customers exposed. The news was reported by many […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2016
Drupal developers have released updates for versions 7 and 8 that fix security issues which could expose websites to cyber attacks. The Drupal development team has released security updates for versions 7 and 8. The updates fix security vulnerabilities that could expose websites running on the popular CMS and data they manage to security risks, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2016
A new flaw allows to bypass the iPhone Passcode protection, even when Touch ID is properly configured, and access photos and messages stored on the device. The use of passcode for the protection of users’ data on iPhone Smartphone doesn’t protect users from the possibility that local ill-intentioned will access their data. A new flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2016
Today we will speak with Kapustkiy, which continues to be in the headlines due to the recent strings of attacks against embassies. Kapustkiy is a pentester that is targeting organizations and embassies across the world. Recently he breached the Paraguay Embassy of Taiwan (www.embapartwroc.com.tw), while a few days ago the hacker and his friend Kasimierz (@Kasimierz_) hacked the Indian Embassies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2016
The notorious Carbanak cybercrime gang is now changing strategy and it is targeting the hospitality and restaurant industries. The notorious Carbanak cybercrime gang that allegedly stole $1 billion from financial institutions worldwide is now changing strategy and target and it is targeting the hospitality and restaurant industries. “In the last month Trustwave was engaged by two separate hospitality clients, and one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2016
CryptoLuck ransomware is a new strain of malware discovered by the researcher Kafeine, that is being distributed via the RIG-E exploit kit. The notorious researcher Kafeine has spotted a new strain of ransomware dubbed CryptoLuck. The malware leverages DLL hijacking and exploits the legitimate GoogleUpdate.exe executable to infect computers. The ransomware appends the .[victim_id]_luck extension to the encrypted […]
