Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2016
South Korea ‘s military cyber command was hacked last month

According to the Government of the South Korea, the county military cyber command was hacked last month in the attempt to infect the vaccine routing server. The Government of Seoul revealed that its cyber command center was hacked last month. The South Korean experts have found evidence of the malware in the systems at the cyber command […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2016
ShadowBrokers complain nobody wants the Euquation Group’s full dump

The ShadowBrokers behind the Equation Group hack is very upset that no one is still bidding on the full dump of the NSA arsenal. Once again we are here to report about the NSA-linked Equation Group and its hacking arsenal leaked online by a group of hackers who called itself TheShadowBrokers. The group of hackers claimed to have […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2016
The source code of the Mirai IoT botnet leaked online. Do you trust it?

A hacker released the source code of the Mirai malware that powered the record-breaking DDoS attack against the Brian Krebs Website, but … A couple of weeks ago the unknown hackers launched a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the website of the popular cyber security investigator Brian Krebs. Further investigation revealed the involvement of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2016
UK is going to open the National Cyber Security Centre with 700 experts

The UK Government confirms the opening of the UK first national anti-cybercrime centre, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). UK confirms to be one of the most advanced countries on cyber security and announce the imminent opening of the UK’s first national anti-cybercrime centre, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The anti-cybercrime centre will open in London […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2016
A zero day flaw in OpenJPEG JPEG 2000 could lead arbitrary code execution

Cisco Talos Team disclosed a zero-day flaw affecting the JPEG 2000 image file format parser implemented in the OpenJPEG library.  Security experts at Cisco Talos group have discovered a serious vulnerability (TALOS-2016-0193/CVE-2016-8332) affecting the JPEG 2000 image file format parser implemented in OpenJPEG library. An attacker could exploit the flaw to trigger the heap corruption and execute […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2016
DefecTor – Deanonymizing Tor users with the analysis of DNS traffic from Tor exit relays

Researchers devised two correlation attacks, dubbed DefecTor, to deanonymize Tor users using also data from observation of DNS traffic from Tor exit relays. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies dedicate an important commitment in the fight of illegal activities in the Dark Web where threat actors operate in a condition of pseudo-anonymity. A group of security researchers at […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2016
D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Wireless router affected by multiple backdoors

If you have a D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Wireless router you need to know that it is affected by more that 20 security issues, including backdoor accounts. D-Link ‘s DWR-932B LTE router and access point has been found vulnerable to a number of backdoors as well as a default WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) PIN. Security […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2016
Zero day broker firm Zerodium has tripled iOS exploit bounty to $1.5M

The notorious zero-day broker company Zerodium has raised the value for a remote IOS jailbreak that reached $1.5 million. The popular zero-day broker Zerodium, which is specialized in Buys and Sells zero-day exploits, has tripled the bug bounty for a remote iOS 10 exploit. The company is willing to pay a jailbreak vulnerability to US$1.5 million. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2016
CVE-2016-6406 – CISCO reported a critical flaw in email security appliances (ESA)

Cisco issued a security advisory about a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-6406, affecting the Email Security Appliance Internal Testing Interface. Cisco Systems reported the existence a vulnerability (CVE-2016-6406) in the email security appliances that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain complete control of the security solution. The vulnerability is related the Cisco IronPort AsyncOS […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2016
CatchApp system can spy on WhatsApp encrypted communications from a backpack

The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale the system called CatchApp that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications. The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale a system that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications from mobile devices within close proximity of a hidden Wi-Fi hacking device in a backpack. The news has been […]