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Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2018
Applebee restaurants suffered payment card breach

RMH Franchise Holdings revealed on Friday afternoon that PoS systems at the Applebee ’s restaurants were infected with a PoS malware. Another week another data breach, RMH Franchise Holdings revealed last week that PoS systems at the Applebee’s restaurants were infected with malware. The PoS malware was used to collect names, payment card numbers, expiration dates, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2018
New attacks on 4G LTE networks can allow to spy on users and spoof emergency alerts

A group of researchers discovered a number of weaknesses in the 4G LTE networks that could be exploited by attackers to eavesdrop on phone calls and text messages, knock devices offline, track location, and spoof emergency alerts. A group of researchers from Purdue and the University of Iowa have discovered a number of vulnerabilities affecting the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2018
SgxPectre attack allows to reveal the content of the SGX enclave

A group of researchers from the Ohio State University has discovered a new variation of the Spectre attack named SgxPectre that allows to reveal the content of the SGX enclave. A group of researchers from the Ohio State University has discovered a new variation of the Spectre attack named SgxPectre. Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a technology […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 152 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      Counterfeit Code-Signing certificates even more popular, but still too expensive ·      Czech President wants Russian hacker Yevgeni Nikulin extradited to Russia instead of US ·      Dozen vulnerabilities discovered in Trend Micro Linux-based […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2018
Recent Memcached DDoS attacks drive RDoS extortion practice

Crooks already started to blackmail companies asking for a ransom demand in Monero cryptocurrency to avoid being attacked via Memcached servers. Last week, the Github service was hit by the biggest-ever DDoS attack that peaked 1.35 Tbs by abusing the memcached protocol to power so-called memcached DDoS attacks. Researchers believe that threat actors in the wild will abuse misconfigured […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2018
GCHQ fears energy smart meters could expose millions of Bretons to hack

In the United Kingdom, new smart energy meters that are set to be installed in 27 million homes were found vulnerable by GCHQ. Unsecured IoT devices are a privileged target of hackers and unfortunately, smart energy meters belong to this category. In the UK, new smart energy meters that are set to be installed in […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2018
Bitcoin-linked heist: thieves stolen 600 powerful computers in Iceland

Thieves steal 600 powerful computers in a huge heist in Iceland with the intent to use them for mining Bitcoin. Cyber criminal organization continue to show a great interest in cryptocurrencies, the number of crimes against cryptocurrency industry is on the rise. News of the day is that crooks have stolen 600 powerful computers from data centers […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2018
Over 40 models of low-cost Android devices shipped with Triada banking Trojan

Security researchers at Dr.Web have discovered over 40 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the dreaded Android Triada banking malware. Security researchers at Antivirus firm Dr.Web have discovered that 42 models of low-cost Android smartphones are shipped with the Android.Triada.231 banking malware. “In the middle of 2017, Doctor Web analysts discovered a new Trojan Android.Triada.231 in the firmware of some […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2018
A flaw in HP Remote Management hardware Integrated Lights-Out 3 leaves expose servers to DoS

Hewlett Packard Enterprise issued a security patch to address a vulnerability (CVE-2017-8987) in HP remote management hardware Integrated Lights-Out 3. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has issued a security patch to address a vulnerability (CVE-2017-8987) in its remote management hardware Integrated Lights-Out 3 that equip the family of HP ProLiant servers. The Hewlett-Packard iLO is composed of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2018
Microsoft released Windows Updates that include Intel’s Spectre microcode patches

Microsoft announced this week the release of the microcode updates to address the Spectre vulnerability. Last week Intel released microcode to address the CVE-2017-5715Spectre vulnerability for many of its chips, let’s this time the security updates will not cause further problems. The Spectre attack allows user-mode applications to extract information from other processes running on the same system. It can also […]