Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2018
Hacking Amazon Key – Hacker shows how to access a locked door after the delivery

Other problems for the Amazon Key technology, a hacker posted a video on Twitter to show how to access a locked door after a delivery worker’s one-time code has been used. Earlier in November, Amazon announced for its Prime members the Amazon Key, a program that would allow a delivery person to enter your home under […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2018
GandCrab, a new ransomware-as-a-service emerges from Russian crime underground

Experts at cyber security firm LMNTRIX have discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service dubbed GandCrab. advertised in Russian hacking community on the dark web. Experts at cyber security firm LMNTRIX have discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service in the dark web dubbed GandCrab. The GandCrab was advertised in Russian hacking community, researchers noticed that authors leverage the RIG and GrandSoft exploit kits to distribute the malware. “Over […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2018
More than 1 million worth of ETH stolen from Bee Token ICO Participants with phishing emails

Participants to the Bee Token ICO were robbed for 100s of ETH, scammers sent out a phishing email stating that the ICO was now open, followed by an Ethereum address they controlled. Another day, another incident involving cryptocurrencies, hundreds of users fell victims to email scams in the last days. The victims were tricked by […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2018
Japan’s Financial Services Agency raided the Coincheck headquarters in Tokyo after the hack

  Cryptocurrencies are in the middle of a Tempest, on Thursday India announced it would adopt measures to prevent the use of virtual currencies in the country, the value of Bitcoin dropped below $9,000 for the first time since November. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his annual budget, explained its government would “take all measures to eliminate use […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2018
JenX botnet leverages Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices

Researchers at security firm Radware have spotted a new IoT botnet, dubbed JenX, the leverages the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices. Researchers at security firm Radware have spotted a new IoT botnet, dubbed JenX, that exploits vulnerabilities triggered by the Satori botnet and is leveraging the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect devices. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2018
Western Digital My Cloud flaws allows local attacker to gain root access to the devices

Trustwave disclosed two vulnerabilities in Western Digital My Cloud network storage devices could be exploited by a local attacker to gain root access to the NAS devices. Researchers at Trustwave disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Western Digital My Cloud network storage devices could be exploited by a local attacker to delete files stored on devices or to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2018
Chinese Iron Tiger APT is back, a close look at the Operation PZChao

Chinese Iron Tiger APT is back, the new campaign, dubbed by Operation PZChao is targeting government, technology, education, and telecommunications organizations in Asia and the US. Malware researchers from Bitdefender have discovered and monitored for several months the activity of a custom-built backdoor capable of password-stealing, bitcoin-mining, and of course to gain full control of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2018
Hundreds of ICS products affected by a critical flaw in CODESYS WebVisu

Researcher discovered a critical vulnerability in the web server component of 3S-Smart Software Solutions’ CODESYS WebVisu product currently used in 116 PLCs and HMIs from many vendors, Security researcher Zhu WenZhe from Istury IOT discovered a critical stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the web server component of 3S-Smart Software Solutions’ CODESYS WebVisu product that allows users to view […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2018
DDG, the second largest mining botnet targets Redis and OrientDB servers

Researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab analyzed a new campaign powered by the DDG botnet, the second largest mining botnet of ever, that targets Redis and OrientDB servers. A new Monero-mining botnet dubbed DDG was spotted in the wild, the malware targets Redis and OrientDB servers. According to the researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab, the DDG botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2018
Researchers discovered several zero-day flaws in ManageEngine products

Security experts at Digital Defense have discovered several vulnerabilities in the products of the Zoho-owned ManageEngine. The list of vulnerabilities discovered includes a flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to take complete control over the vulnerable application. The flaws affect ServiceDesk Plus, Service Plus MSP, OpManager, Firewall Analyzer, Network Configuration Manager, OpUtils and NetFlow […]