Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2019
On June 6, for more than two hours China Telecom re-routed through its infrastructure a large chunk of European mobile traffic. In November security researchers Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt published a paper that detailed how China Telecom has been misdirecting Internet traffic through China over the past years. The experts speculate that they were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2019
Cisco Talos experts uncovered a new wave of attacks tracked as Frankenstein campaign, attackers used tools built by combining four open-source techniques. Security experts at Cisco Talos uncovered a series of highly targeted attacks, tracked as Frankenstein campaign, hackers used tools built by combining four different open-source techniques. Attackers behind the Frankenstein campaign carried out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2019
In October 2017, the city of Fort Worth, Texas became the target of a phishing scam. Their accounts payable department received an email that appeared to be from Imperial Construction, a company that was doing business with the city at the time. The sender of the email, later identified as Gbenga A. Fadipe, requested a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2019
SandboxEscaper publicly disclosed a second Windows zero-day exploit dubbed ByeBear to bypass a recently patched elevation of privilege issue. SandboxEscaper is a well of neverending surprises, today publicly disclosed a second Windows zero-day exploit (dubbed ByeBear) to bypass a recently patched elevation of privilege issue. SandboxEscaper is well-known researchers that publicly disclosed several zero-day exploits […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2019
Cyber criminals stole 3.2 million Ripple coins (XRP), worth nearly $10 million, from the users of the GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service. A new cyber heist made the headlines, crooks stole 3.2 million Ripple coins (XRP), worth nearly $10 million, from the users of the GateHub cryptocurrency wallet service. “Recently, we have been notified by our […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2019
A new botnet tracked as GoldBrute is scanning the web for Windows machines with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection enabled. A new botnet tracked as GoldBrute has appeared in the threat landscape, it is scanning the web for Windows machines with Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection enabled. The botnet is currently targeting over 1.5 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2019
The Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself to protect the funds of its users and avoid that hackers steal them exploiting a flaw in its Agama wallet. The story I’m going to tell you is amazing, the Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself after discovered a backdoor in its Agama wallet. Komodo’s Agama Wallet allows users to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2019
A new version of the popular Tor Browser was released by the Tor Project, it is Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 8.5.1 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, the new version of the popular anonymizing browser. This release includes a temporary fix for a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2019
VMware has informed its users that it has patched two high-severity vulnerabilities that affect its Tools and Workstation software. VMware has patched two high-severity flaws that affect its Tools and Workstation software. The first security flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-5522, affects VMware Tools 10.x on Windows. The vulnerability is an out-of-bounds read issue in the vm3dmp driver in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2019
Researchers at security firm CheckPoint have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in a popular IPTV middleware platform. Security experts at CheckPoint have discovered multiple critical flaws in a popular IPTV middleware platform that is used by more than a thousand online media streaming services to manage their millions of subscribers. Ministra TV platform is a PHP-based […]
