Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2018
Security experts from FireEye have spotted a new strain of the Zyklon malware that has been delivered by using new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. Researchers at FireEye reported the malware was used in attacks against organizations in the telecommunications, financial, and insurance sectors. Zyklon has been spotted for the first time in 2016, it is a publicly available […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2018
The Briton Goncalo Esteves (24), also known as KillaMuvz, has pleaded guilty to charges related to creating and running malware services. The Briton Goncalo Esteves (24) has pleaded guilty to charges related to creating and running malware services. Such kind of platforms allows crooks to improve the development of their malicious codes. The malware created with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2018
Security researchers at Check Point have spotted a malware family dubbed RubyMiner that is targeting web servers worldwide in an attempt to exploit their resources to mine Monero cryptocurrency. RubyMiner, was first spotted last week when a massive campaign targeted web servers worldwide, most of them in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2018
Oracle rolled out the January 2018 Critical Patch Update that includes 237 security fixes in its products, the majority of which is remotely exploitable without authentication. The January 2018 Critical Patch Update also includes security updates that address Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. âThe January 2018 Critical Patch Update provides fixes for certain Oracle products for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2018
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has issued security updates for BIND to address a high severity vulnerability that could cause DNS servers crash. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has rolled out security updates for BIND to address a high severity vulnerability that could be remotely exploited to crash DNS servers. The flaw discovered by Jayachandran […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2018
Facebook has fixed a couple of vulnerabilities that could have been exploited by attackers to hijack accounts by abusing integration with the Oculus virtual reality headset. In March 2014, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the acquisition of Oculus VR and included the handsets produced by the company to its bug bounty program. White hat hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2018
The Skygofree spyware analyzed by Kaspersky today was first spotted by the researcher Lukas Stefanko and the first analysis was published last year by the CSE Cybsec ZLab. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have made the headlines because they have spotted a new strain of a powerful Android spyware, dubbed Skygofree, that was used to gain full control […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2018
Four malicious Chrome extensions may have impacted more than half million users likely to conduct click fraud or black search engine optimization. More than half million users may have been infected by four malicious Chrome extensions that were likely used to conduct click fraud or black search engine optimization. According to ICEBRG, the malicious extensions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2018
A Canadian Man supposed to be the admin of the LeakedSource.com website was charged over the leak of 3 billion hacked accounts. The Canadian man Jordan Evan Bloom (27) was charged with data leak of 3 billion hacked accounts, the man was running a website to collect personal data and login credentials from the victims. The man […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2018
Several customers of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer. OnePlus claim to have been the victim of fraudulent credit card transactions after making purchases on the company webstore. A large number of OnePlus users claim to have been the victim of fraudulent credit card transactions after making purchases on the official website of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer. Dozens […]
