Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2018
Mexican central bank confirmed that SWIFT hackers stole millions of dollars from Mexican Banks

The head of the Mexican central bank, Alejandro Diaz de Leon announced this week that hackers were involved in shadowy transfers of between $18 million and $20 million. Mexican central bank is the last victim of the SWIFT hackers, officials at the bank confirmed this week that hackers hit the payments system and stole millions […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2018
Operation Hotel – Ecuador spent millions on spy operation for Julian Assange

According to The Guardian newspaper, Ecuador spent millions on spy operation for Julian Assange after he hacked the embassy network. According to a report published by the Guardian, Ecuador spied on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its London embassy where he took in political asylum since 2012, In 2012 a British judge ruled he should be extradited to Sweden […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2018
Mysterious hackers ingenuously reveal two Zero-Days to security community

Mysterious hackers ingenuously reveal two zero-days to the security community, experts collaborated to promptly fix them. Anton Cherepanov, security expert form ESET researcher, discovered two zero-days while analyzing a malicious PDF, according to the researcher the mysterious hacker(s) were still working on the exploits. The malicious PDF was discovered late in March 2018 (Two suspicious PDF samples zero-day […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2018
Red Hat Linux DHCP Client affected by a command injection flaw, patch it now!

Red Hat has announced a critical vulnerability in its DHCP client tracked as CVE-2018-1111 that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on targeted systems. Felix Wilhelm from the Google security team discovered a critical remote command injection vulnerability in the DHCP client implementation of Red Hat Linux, the issue also affects other distros […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2018
Anonymous defaced Russia govt website against Telegram ban

Anonymous collective hacked and defaced the subdomain of the Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) site to protest against the government censorship, with a specific reference to the ban on Telegram. Anonymous hacked the official website of Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), the cyber attack occurred on May 10th (Rossotrudnichestvo). The popular collective hacked […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2018
Rail Europe North America hit by payment card data breach

Rail Europe North America (RENA) notifies customers of a security breach, crooks compromised its website with a malware used to siphon payment card data. The website allows users to buy European train tickets, according to the company the data breach lasted at least three months (between November 29, 2017 and February 16, 2018), the incident exposed also customers’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2018
Hackers shared technical details of a Code Injection flaw in Signal App

Researchers shared details of a code injection vulnerability they found in the in the Signal app for both Windows and Linux systems. The flaw was promptly fixed by Signal. Signal has fixed a code injection vulnerability in the app for both Windows and Linux systems that was reported by a team of Argentinian experts. A remote attacker could […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2018
Massive DDoS attack hit the Danish state rail operator DSB

The Danish state rail operator DSB was hit by a massive DDoS cyber attack that paralyzed some operations, including ticketing systems and the communication infrastructure. The Danish state rail operator DSB was hit by an unprecedented DDoS cyber attack, the attack was confirmed on Monday by the company and reported by The Local media outlet. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2018
Researchers disclosed details of EFAIL attacks on in PGP and S/MIME tools. Experts believe claims are overblown

EFAIL attacks – Researchers found critical vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME Tools, immediately disable and/or uninstall tools that automatically decrypt PGP-encrypted email. A few hours ago, I reported the news that security researchers from three universities in Germany and Belgium have found critical vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME Tools that could be exploited by attackers to read emails encrypted […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2018
Critical Flaws in PGP and S/MIME Tools – Immediately disable tools that automatically decrypt PGP-encrypted email

Researchers found critical vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME Tools, immediately disable and/or uninstall tools that automatically decrypt PGP-encrypted email. If you are one of the users of the email encryption tools Pretty Good Privacy and S/MIME there is an important warning for you. A group of European security expert has discovered a set of critical […]