Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2017
The Halloware ransomware is a new malware offered for sale in the dark web, the author that goes online with the moniker Luc1F3R is selling it for just $40. According to the experts at Bleeping Computer, Luc1F3R started selling the Halloware this week through a dedicated portal on the Dark web. Luc1F3R claims to be a 17-year-old college […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2017
Security researcher discovered thousands of Lantronix Serial-to-Ethernet devices connected online that leak Telnet passwords. The security researcher Ankit Anubhav, principal researcher at NewSky Security, has discovered thousands of Serial-to-Ethernet devices connected online that leak Telnet passwords. Hackers can use the leaked passwords to launch cyber attacks against the equipment that is connected to them. Serial-to-Ethernet “device […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2017
In an astonishing move, Anonymous leak public sector entities infrastructure topology data for the people of Brazil in the midst of Lava Jato scandal. The compromised data includes IP addresses from the public sector, ranging law enforcement agencies and local municipality. This data leak comes at a moment where a strong fight against corruption is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2017
A former NSA hacker pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally taking classified documents home, which were later stolen by Russian cyber spies. A member of the US National Security Agency Tailored Access Operations hacking team, Nghia Hoang Pho (67) pleaded guilty in a US district court in Baltimore on Friday to one count of willful retention of national defense […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2017
Law enforcement agencies dismantled a criminal ring and arrested four key members responsible for ATM attacks and performing illegal transactions. European law enforcement agencies announced the success of an operation called “Neptune” that allowed to dismantle a criminal ring and arrest of four key members responsible for stealing payment card data and performing illegal transactions. The investigation supported by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2017
Researchers discovered that the original patch for the Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) is affected by a security flaw. The original patch for the Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) is affected by a security flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to run local code on affected systems and exploit a race condition to perform a privilege escalation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2017
Seleznev gets another prison sentence. He received 14-year prison sentence for charge in Nevada and another 14 years for the second charge in Georgia. In April, the Russian hacker Roman Seleznev, aka Track2, Bulba and Ncux, was sentenced to 27 years in prison, he was convicted of causing $170 million in damage by hacking into point-of-sale systems. The 33-year-old was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2017
Google announced the block of code injection from third-party applications into the Chrome browser. Developers have 14 months to update their code. Google continues to improve security of its product and services, the IT giant announced the for blocking third-party applications from injecting code into the Chrome browser. The decision of the company will have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2017
NTT Security, a company of the tech giant NTT Group focused on cyber security, has released its 2017 Global Threat Intelligence Center (GTIC) Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report. The research includes data collected over the last three months from global NTT Security managed security service (MSS) platforms and a variety of open-source intelligence tools and honeypots. The report […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2017
Some websites use a simple trick to keep their cryptocurrency miners scripts running in the background even when the user has closed the browser window. Website administrators and crooks are looking with an increasing interest at JavaScript-based cryptocurrency miners due to rapid increase in cryptocurrency prices. These scripts exploit the CPU power of their visitor’s PC to mine Bitcoin […]
