Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2019
Iran-linked group Cobalt Dickens hit over 60 universities worldwide

Iran-linked Cobalt Dickens APT group carried out a spear-phishing campaign aimed at tens of universities worldwide. Researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) uncovered a phishing campaign carried out by the Iran-linked Cobalt Dickens APT group (also known as Silent Librarian) that targeted more than 60 universities four continents in July and August. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2019
NetCAT attack allows hackers to steal sensitive data from Intel CPUs

Experts discovered a flaw dubbed NetCAT (Network Cache ATtack) that affects all Intel server-grade processors and allows to sniff sensitive data over the network. Researchers from VUSec group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have discovered a new vulnerability that can be exploited by a remote attacker to sniff sensitive details by mounting a side-channel attack over the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2019
Some models of Comba and D-Link WiFi routers leak admin credentials

Security experts have discovered that some models of D-Link and Comba WiFi routers leak their administrative login credentials in plaintext. Security researchers from Trustwave’s SpiderLabs have discovered several credential leaking vulnerabilities in some models of D-Link and Comba Telecom. The researcher Simon Kenin from SpiderLabs discovered five credential leaking vulnerabilities, three of them affect some […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2019
Million of Telestar Digital GmbH IoT radio devices can be remotely hacked

A security researcher disclosed zero-day flaws in Telestar Digital GmbH IoT radio devices that could be exploited by remote attackers to hijack systems without any user interaction. The security researcher Benjamin Kunz from Vulnerability-Lab disclosed zero-day flaws in Telestar Digital GmbH IoT radio devices that could be exploited by remote attackers to hijack devices without any user […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2019
Robert Downey Jr’s Instagram account has been hacked

The Instagram account of Robert Downey Jr. has been hacked, he is the last celebrity in order of time that had the social media accounts compromised. Robert Downey Jr. Instagram account has been hacked, in this case the attacker did not publish offensive messages, but attempted to monetize their efforts by posting fake giveaways for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2019
DoS attack the caused disruption at US power utility exploited a known flaw

A DoS attack that caused disruptions at a power utility in the United States exploited a flaw in a firewall used in the facility. The incident took place earlier this year, threat actors exploited a known vulnerability in a firewall used by the affected facility to cause disruption. In May, the Department of Energy confirmed […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2019
Telegram Privacy Fails Again

Security expert discovered that busing a well-known feature of deleting messages it is possible to threate the users’ privacy. This is not a security vulnerability its a privacy issue. As I understand Telegram a messaging app focuses on privacy which has over 10,00,00,000+  downloads in Playstore. In this case, we are abusing a well-known feature of deleting […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2019
Symantec uncovered the link between China-Linked Thrip and Billbug groups

The China-linked APT group Thrip is continuing to target entities in Southeast Asia even after its activity was uncovered by Symantec. Experts at Symantec first exposed the activity of the Chinese-linked APT Thrip in 2018, now the security firm confirms that cyber espionage group has continued to carry out attacks in South East Asia. In June […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2019
Wikipedia suffered intermittent outages as a result of a malicious attack

The popular free online encyclopedia Wikipedia was not reachable following what it has described as a “malicious attack”. Popular online reference website Wikipedia went down in several countries after the server of the Wikimedia Foundation that host it were hit by a “massive” Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The news of intermittent outages was […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2019
China-linked APT3 was able to modify stolen NSA cyberweapons

China-linked APT3 stole cyberweapons from the NSA and reverse engineered them to create its arsenal. In 2010, security firm FireEye identified the Pirpi Remote Access Trojan (RAT) which exploited a then 0-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7 and 8. FireEye named the threat group APT3 which has also been described as TG-0100, Buckeye, […]