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Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2018
New KillDisk variant targets Windows machines in financial organizations in Latin America

A new variant of the infamous disk-wiper malware KillDisk has been spotted by malware researchers at Trend Micro while targeting financial organizations in Latin America. A new variant of the infamous disk-wiper malware KillDisk has been spotted by malware researchers at Trend Micro. This variant of KillDisk, tracked as TROJ_KILLDISK.IUB, was involved in cyber attacks against financial […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2018
Spectre/Meltdown patches had a significant impact on SolarWinds’s AWS infrastructure

Analysis conducted by SolarWinds on the impact on the performance of the Spectre/Meltdown patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure revealed serious performance degradation. SolarWinds, the vendor of IT Management Software & Monitoring Tools, has analyzed the impact on the performance of Meltdown and Spectre security patches on its own Amazon Web Services infrastructure. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2018
Blackwallet hacked, hackers stole $400,000 from users’ accounts through DNS hijacking

BlackWallet.co was victims of a DNS hijacking attack, on January 13 the attackers have stolen over $400,000 from users’ accounts (roughly 670,000 Lumens). The spike in cryptocurrency values is attracting cybercriminals, the last victim is the BlackWallet.co a web-based wallet application for the Stellar Lumen cryptocurrency (XLM). The platform was victims of a DNS hijacking attack, on January […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2018
Mirai Okiru botnet targets for first time ever in the history ARC-based IoT devices

Researcher @unixfreaxjp spotted the first time ever in the history of computer engineering a Linux malware designed to infect ARC CPU, this new Linux ELF malware was dubbed MIRAI OKIRU. In August 2016 the researcher @unixfreaxjp from @MalwareMustDie team first spotted the dreaded Mirai botnet, now the same researcher is announcing a new big earthquake in the malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 145 – 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! ·      Following recent mass demonstration, Iran Infy group may attempt to target protesters and their foreign contacts ·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 144 – News of the week ·      Spear phishing attacks already […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2018
Lenovo spotted and fixed a backdoor in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switches

Lenovo discovered a firmware backdoor in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switch families during an internal security audit. Security experts at Levono have spotted a firmware backdoor, tracked CVE-2017-3765, in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switch families during an internal security audit. An authentication bypass affects only in RackSwitch and BladeCenter switches running ENOS (Enterprise Network Operating System), the tech giant […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2018
Fappening – A fourth man has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities

Fappening – A fourth hacker, George Garofano (26), of North Branford, has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities. A fourth hacker, George Garofano (26), of North Branford, has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities. Garofano had been arrested by the FBI and a federal […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2018
New MaMi Malware targets macOS systems and changes DNS settings

The popular security researcher Patrick Wardle spotted MaMi malware, a new threat malware designed to hijack DNS settings on macOS devices. The cyber security expert and former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle made the headline once again, this time the researcher has spotted a new strain of malware dubbed MaMi designed to hijack DNS settings on […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2018
Mobile App Flaws of SCADA ICS Systems Could Allow Hackers To Target Critical Infrastructure

IOACTIVE researchers warn that critical infrastructure mobile applications are being developed without secure coding compliance that could allow hackers to target SCADA Systems. In a report released today, by IOACTIVE, researchers’ advice that critical infrastructure mobile applications are being developed without secure coding compliance that could allow hackers to target Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2018
Game of Drones – Researchers devised a technique to detect drone surveillance

A group of Israeli researchers at Ben Gurion University have built a proof-of-concept system against surveillance operated a surveillance drone. Drones have created a new threat to people’s privacy. Anyone with a drone equipped with a video camera can potentially violate our privacy by streaming the subject in his/her private space over an encrypted first […]