Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2018
Anonymous collective brought down Spain sites to support Catalonia

Anonymous targeted many governments websites in Spain to protest against the Government’s efforts to block Catalonia ‘s separatist wave. Members of the notorious Anonymous collective claimed responsibility for bringing down several government websites in Spain on Monday to protest against the decision of the government to block Catalonia’s separatist drive. Anonymous brought down the websites of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2018
Flaw in SOLEO IP Relay Service potentially exposed over 30 million Canadian records

Major Internet service providers (ISPs) in Canada were impacted by a local file disclosure flaw in the SOLEO IP Relay service that was recently addressed. Almost all major Internet service providers (ISPs) in Canada were impacted by a local file disclosure vulnerability in the SOLEO IP Relay service that was recently addressed. Telecommunications relay services (TRSs) developed by Soleo […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2018
Unusual Malspam campaign targets banks with Microsoft Publisher files

Researchers from Trustwave have uncovered a malspam campaign targeting banks with the FlawedAmmyy RAT. The peculiarity of this malspam campaign is the unusual use of a Microsoft Office Publisher file to infect victims’ systems. Experts noticed an anomalous spike in the number of emails with a Microsoft Office Publisher file (a .pub attachment) and the subject line, “Payment Advice,” that was sent to domains belonging […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 176 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      DNS Hijacking targets Brazilian financial institutions ·      […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2018
North Korea-linked Dark Hotel APT leverages CVE-2018-8373 exploit

The North Korea-linked Dark Hotel APT group is leveraging the recently patched CVE-2018-8373 vulnerability in the VBScript engine in attacks in the wild. The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11, it was first disclosed last month by Trend Micro and affected all supported versions of Windows. The flaw could be exploited by remote attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2018
China’s Belt and Road project (BRI) is a driver of regional cyber threat activity

Security experts have observed increasing cyber espionage activity related to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The alarm was launched by the experts from cybersecurity firms FireEye and Recorded Future. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a development project for the building of an infrastructure connecting countries in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2018
An Australian schoolboy hacked into Apple Servers and stole 90GB of secure files

According to Australian media, a teen hacker broke into Apple mainframe and downloaded 90GB of secure files. He dreams to work for the Tech Giant. I believe it is time for Apple to hire an Australian 16-year old schoolboy who hacked its computer systems. Yes, it is not a joke, according to Australian media the teen […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2018
CVE-2018-14023 – Recovering expired messages from Signal

An Italian cybersecurity passionate discovered that it was possible to recover the expired messages from Signal version 1.14.3, Advisory ID: n0sign4l-002 Risk level: 4 / 5 Title: Signal Desktop – Recover Expired Messages Credit: Leonardo Porpora – ‘n0sign4l’ Product: Signal CVE: CVE-2018-14023 Version: 1.14.3 and prior Public Disclosure:  17/08/2018 Vendor: Open Whisper System Details  Signal version […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2018
Black Hat 2018 – Expert demonstrated a new PHP code execution attack

The security researcher Sam Thomas from Secarma, has discovered a new attack technique that leverages critical deserialization vulnerabilities in PHP programming language. The flaws potentially expose web applications written in the popular language to cyber attacks, including websites running CMSs like WordPress and Typo3. The expert discovered that an attacker can use low-risk functions against Phar archives to trigger […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2018
Linux Kernel Project rolled out security updates to fix two DoS vulnerabilities

Linux kernel maintainers have rolled out security updates for two DoS vulnerabilities tracked as SegmentSmack and FragmentSmack. Linux kernel maintainers have released security patches that address two vulnerabilities, tracked as two bugs are known as SegmentSmack (CVE-2018-5390) and FragmentSmack (CVE-2018-5391). potentially exploitable to trigger a DoS condition. The vulnerabilities reside the Linux kernel’s TCP stack, an attacker can […]