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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
The first Adobe security updates for 2019 addresses two critical vulnerabilities in the Acrobat and Reader products. Adobe addressed two critical vulnerabilities in the Acrobat and Reader products, a use-after-free issue and a security bypass flaw. The flaws affect the latest versions of Acrobat DC, Acrobat Reader DC, Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat Reader DC 2017 for Windows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
The website of the tram system in Dublin, the Luas, was hacked on Thursday, attackers claim to have the access to information stored on the organizationâs systems. Attackers defaced the website of the Luas, the home page displayed a message demanding the payment of 1 bitcoin. The hackers asked the payment within 5 days threatening to âpublish all data and send emails […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
Three years after its disclosure, Google has patched an information disclosure flaw in the Android version of the popular Chrome web browser. The issue exposes devices information, including device model and firmware version, an attacker could exploit this info to remotely identify unpatched devices and target them. The flaw ties the way the Android version […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
The unCaptcha automated system can once again bypass Googleâs reCAPTCHA challenges, despite major updates to the security service. It has happened again, the unCaptcha automated system is able to bypass the Google reCAPTCHA mechanism even if it was improved over the years. The unCaptcha system was created in 2017 to bypass the reCAPTCHA mechanism used to protect websites […]
