Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2016
The Epic Games forums hacked again, more than 800,000 logins accounts have been stolen, with more than half a million from Unreal Engine’s forums. Epic Games forums breached again, salted passwords of 808,000 Unreal Engine and Unreal Tournament forum accounts have been exposed. The stolen records from Epic Games include email addresses, birth dates, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2016
Researchers from Buguroo discovered new Gozi campaigns using new techniques that targeted many banks and financial services worldwide. The Gozi malware was first spotted in 2007, its source code has been leaked twice in the criminal underground allowing the creation of new sophisticated version. Recently security experts from the IBM X-Force Research spotted a new threat dubbed GozNym […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2016
A few members of the community are calling for a ‘Tor general strike’ to protest against some decisions taken recently by the core members. Last month, the Tor Project announced that an internal investigation had confirmed the allegations of sexual misconduct against the notorious member Jacob Appelbaum. The allegations divided the internet privacy community, as a result of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2016
A security expert analyzed a BHU Wi-Fi router and found that it is easy to hack by an unauthenticated attacker that can access sensitive information. Tao Sauvage, an expert from IOActive, has analyzed a BHU Wi-Fi router that he purchased during a travel. The BHU Wi-Fi router appears like a surveillance box, but according to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2016
A group of researchers demonstrated that a number of existing facial recognition systems can be fooled by 3D facial models made from Facebook photos. Facial recognition systems still have a certain margin of error, for example, trying to identify people of color. A group of researchers from the University of North Carolina demonstrated that a number […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2016
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $34 million in funding to projects aimed at the protection of power grid from cyber attacks. A cyber attack against a critical infrastructure is an event that government doesnât exclude, for this reason, one of the pillars of their cyber strategy is the adoption of countermeasures to improve their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2016
Twitter announced it has shut down 360,000 terrorist-related accounts since last year, Daesh traffic on its platform has plummeted by 45 percent in 2 years. Social media platforms are privileged instruments for the ISIS propaganda, members of the terror organization make a large use of social media like Twitter to share images and news about […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2016
A security expert noticed strange transactions from the Bitcoin wallet of the SilkRoad (now in the hands of Feds) to the ShadowBrokers ‘ wallet. I was surfing the Internet searching for interesting data about the ShadowBrokers group that leaked exploits and hacking tools belonging to the NSA Equation Group. I have found a very intriguing analysis […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2016
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 THANK YOU! Hitler ransomware just deletes files instead encrypt them Security Affairs newsletter Round 73 â News […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2016
Researchers tested the BENIGNCERTAIN tool included in the NSA data dump that allows attackers to extract VPN passwords from certain Cisco devices. Following the disclosure of the NSA dump, IT vendors Cisco and Fortinet issued security patches to fix the flaws exploited by the Equation Group in their products. Now, security researchers have uncovered another […]
