Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2019
The National Security Agency (NSA) will release at the next RSA Conference a free reverse engineering framework called GHIDRA. GHIDRA is a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that runs on major OSs (Windows, macOS, and Linux). The framework was first mentioned in the CIA Vault 7 dump that was leaked in 2017. WikiLeaks obtained thousands of files allegedly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2019
The Dark Overlord published the first batch of decryption keys for 650 confidential documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole âhundreds of thousands of documents,â including tens of thousands files related to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Facebook tracks non-users via Android Apps Hackers bypassed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2019
A misconfigured AWS S3 bucket is the root cause of a data leak that impacted 2.4 million Blur users, reported the online privacy firm Abine. Blur is a popular password manager developed by the online privacy firm Abine, it also implements private browsing features and masked email. The application was developed to secure the personal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2019
Victims of the Aurora Ransomware could use a decryptor tool developed by the popular malware researcher Michael Gillespie to decrypt their data for free. Good news for the victims of the Aurora Ransomware, there are many variants of this Windows malware but most of the victims have been infected by the version that appends the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2019
A serious DoS flaw affects several industrial automation products manufactured by the Yokogawa Electric. The DoS vulnerability in several Yokogawa Electric products affects the Open Communication Driver for Vnet/IP, a real-time plant network system for process automation. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-16196, could be exploited by an attacker to stop communication function of Vnet/IP Open Communication […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2019
A security expert found a flaw in Skype for Android that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to view photos and contacts, and even open links in the browser. Security expert Florian Kunushevci (19) discovered a vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated local attacker to view photos and contacts, and also to open links in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2019
A new variant of the NRSMiner is infecting users in the southern region of Asia, most of the victims are in Vietnam (54%), Iran (16%) and Malaysia (12%). The new version leverages the EternalBlue exploit to spread, experts observed that the threat also updates existing NRSMiner installs. ETERNALBLUEÂ is an NSA exploit that made the headlines […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2019
German politicians were impacted by a massive data leak that exposed their personal data online, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was affected too. Data belonging to hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were exposed online due to a massive leak that is the biggest data dump of its kind in the country. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2019
BlankMediaGames disclosed a data breach that affects millions of players of the popular role-playing game Town of Salem. The BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7.6 million players of the browser-based role-playing game Town of Salem Exposed data includes usernames, emails, passwords, IP addresses, game and forum activity. The bad news for […]
