Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
Iranian APT groups continue to very active, recently Charming Kitten cyber spies attempted to pose as an Israeli cyber-security firm that uncovered previous hacking campaigns. The Iranian Charming Kitten ATP group, aka Newscaster or Newsbeef, launched spear phishing attacks against people interested in reading reports about it. The Newscaster group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2018
The maintainers of the Trezor multi-cryptocurrency wallet service reported a phishing attack against some of its users that occurred during the weekend. I had some issues yesterday, when accessing your site. It seems to be related with DNS. Is https://t.co/wGje8x5lRN legit? — Carsten đčđ ⥠(@CarstenBKK) July 1, 2018 The attack appears more complex respect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2018
The sale of Zero-day exploits is a prolific business, zero-day broker Zerodium offers rewards of up to $500,000 FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux Zero-Days. The sale of Zero-day exploits is a prolific business that most people totally ignore, to better understand its evolution let’s analyze together the offer of the popular exploit broker Zerodium. To have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2018
Security expert Vinny Troia has found a huge trove of data belonging to millions of Americans that were left unsecured online. The security researcher Vinny Troia was analyzing the level of security for Elasticsearch installs exposed online when discovered millions of records belonging to Americans that were left unsecured online. The expert used Shodan to find U.S. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2018
Security issues in the LTE mobile device standard could be exploited by persistent attackers to spy on users’ cellular networks and hijack data traffic. A team of from Ruhr-UniversitĂ€t Bochum and New York University Abu Dhabi has discovered some security issues in the LTE mobile device standard that could be exploited by persistent attackers (i.e. intelligence […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2018
Typeform, the popular online survey platform, has suffered a data breach that exposed partial data of some users, no payment card data was stolen. Typeform, the popular online survey platform, is the last victim of a data breach. Typeform software is widely adopted by businesses worldwide to easily arrange surveys, it allows easy creation of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2018
Experts discovered a third-party quiz app, called NameTests, that was found exposing data of up to 120 million Facebook users. A bug on the Nametests.com exposed data of over 120 million users who took personality quizzes on Facebook, the good news is that the flaw was addressed as part of the Facebookâs Data Abuse Bounty Program launched […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2018
The sportswear company Adidas announced that it has launched an investigation after learning of a potential security breach that could impact millions of its US customers. Adidas published a security alert to warn that hackers may have stolen customer data from its US website. The German sportswear company confirmed that attackers may have had unauthorized access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2018
The development team of the Gentoo Linux distribution notifies users that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts and planted a malicious code. Developers of the Gentoo Linux distribution announced that hackers compromised one of the GitHub accounts used by the organization and planted a malicious code. âToday 28 June at approximately 20:20 UTC unknown […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2018
The entertainment ticketing service Ticketmaster announced it has suffered a data breach that exposed personal and payment customer information. Hackers accessed name, address, email address, telephone number, payment details and Ticketmaster login details of company customers. According to the company, attackers installed a malicious code on customer support product hosted by Inbenta Technologies, an external […]
