Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2017
The Scarab ransomware is now being distributed to millions of users via a massive spam campaign powered with the dreaded Necurs botnet. Scarab is a strain of ransomware, first spotted in June by the security researcher Michael Gillespie, that is now being distributed to millions of users via a massive spam campaign powered with the dreaded Necurs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2017
Security experts are observing numerous massive scans going on for Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets in order to steal their funds. The continuing increase of both Bitcoin and Ethereum price is attracting crooks that are spending a lot of efforts in the attempt to steal funds stored in the wallets used for these two cryptocurrencies. Security researchers worldwide are observing an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2017
Mozilla developer revealed the Firefox browser will soon include a new feature to notify users who visit sites that suffered a data breach Firefox browser is going to introduce a new security feature to make the users’ experience online more secure, it will warn users if they visit websites that have experienced data breaches. The news was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2017
An Italian researcher from the security firm InTheCyber devised an attack technique to create self-replicating malware hidden in MS Word documents. A few weeks ago, a security researcher reported a flaw that affects all versions of Microsoft Office that could be exploited by attackers to spread macro-based self-replicating malware. Microsoft promptly implemented a security mechanism in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2017
Saudi Arabia announced to have detected an “advanced” cyber attack targeting the kingdom with the intent to disrupt government computers. On Monday, Saudi authorities announced to have detected an “advanced” cyber attack targeting the kingdom. According to the experts at the Saudi National Cyber Security Centre, the attackers aimed to disrupt government computers. The attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2017
The advent of Artificial Intelligence has brought with it a new scope for cybersecurity. Why the artificial intelligence is important for cybersecurity? In my last blog, I discussed AI and Big Data. Now, I am going to explain about AI and Cybersecurity. The advent of Artificial Intelligence has brought with it a new scope for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2017
The major Linux distributions rolled out security fixes for a use-after-free error, tracked as CVE-2017-14746, affecting all versions of SAMBA since 4.0. The major Linux distributions (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and others) rolled out security patches for a use-after-free error, tracked as CVE-2017-14746, affecting all versions of SAMBA since 4.0. Administrations have to apply the fixes to their distributions, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2017
Google is secretly gathering location data from billions of Android users, the news is disconcerting and once again raise the debate about user’s privacy. The disconcerting discovery was made by researchers from Quartz. Big G has been caught collecting location data on every Android device owner in the past 11 months. The worse news is that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2017
Almost any PC vendor announced the imminent release of fixes for the flaws in Intel Management Engine, but many of them will be available only in 2018. Intel has started to issue security updated to fix multiple flaws in Intel’s CPUs, unfortunately many of them will not be available to the end-users until 2018. The tech giant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2017
A new strain of the notorious macOS Proton malware is spreading through a blog spoofing the legitimate blog of the security firm Symantec. The attackers used the same domain registration information of the original site, except for the email address. The SSL digital certificate for the site is a legitimate certificate issued by Comodo instead of the […]
