Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2015
The Panda Emissary APT specialized in defence aerospace projects

The Panda Emissary group extensively uses long-running strategic web compromises and relies on whitelists to syphon defence aerospace projects from victims. An alleged Chinese APT group dubbed Panda Emissary (also known as TG-3390) is targeting high-profile governments and organisations searching for defense aerospace projects. Researchers at Dell discovered that the Panda Emissary group used Watering hole […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2015
Man-in-the-Cloud Attacks rely on common file synchronization services to hack cloud account

Popular cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox can be abused by hackers running Man-in-the-Cloud (MITC) attacks. The recently issued Imperva’s Hacker Intelligence Initiative report on Man-in-the-Cloud (MITC) attacks details how threat actors abuse popular cloud storage services for illegal activities. The experts have analyzed a number of cloud storage services including Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and Microsoft OneDrive. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2015
CVE-2015-3823 Android bug phones in endless reboots

Trend Micro revealed that Android users are threatened by another vulnerability coded as CVE-2015-3823 which traps mobile phones in endless reboots. Still problems for Android users! A few days ago security experts at Trend Micro discovered a serious flaw in Android OS that can be exploited to crash mobile devices, just before it was announced the Stagefright […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2015
Terracotta VPN, the Chinese VPN Service as Hacking Platform

A Chinese-language Virtual Private Network service provider dubbed Terracotta VPN offers a network of compromised servers as a stealth hacking platform. According RSA Security, a China-based virtual private network (VPN) service provider offers hacking crews a network of compromised servers which can be used to carry out stealth cyber attacks. The attacks appear to be […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2015
Thunderstrike 2 rootkit infects Mac firmware

A security researcher developed an improved version of the Thunderstrike rootkit that uses Thunderbolt accessories to infect the Mac firmware. Earlier this year, security expert Trammell Hudson presented a proof-of-concept firmware called Thunderstrike. Thunderstrike is a hacking technique to infect Apple’s Mac PCs with EFI Bootkit through the Thunderbolt port. The expert demonstrated how to compromise […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2015
Interpol is training Police officers to fight crime on the Darknet

Police officers from dozen countries have just completed the first training program on Darknets, Tor hidden services and illegal marketplaces. Cybercrime becomes even more sophisticated and explores new technologies for its illegal activities. A growing problem for law enforcement agencies world worldwide is to track illegal activities in the Dark Web. Not only cyber criminals, but also groups […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2015
BIND Flaws exploited in DNS server attacks

Recently we reported a new vulnerability affecting Bind, now experts at Sucuri confirmed that the flaw is being exploited in DNS server attacks. A few days ago we wrote about the BIND software flaws that were discovered, affecting important companies, and last week a patch was released for the denial-of-service flaw (CVE-2015-5477), which was affecting […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2015
A secret NSA map shows successful Chinese attacks

The NBC News published a secret NSA map reporting the locations of “Victims of Chinese Cyber Espionage” attacks that resulted in data thefts. The NBC News has published in exclusive a secret NSA map showing the locations of the cyber attacks carried out by Chinese hackers over a five-year period. Every marker in the secret NSA map […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2015
FDA says healthcare providers to stop using older drug infusion pumps made by Hospira

Food and Drug Administration invited healthcare providers to stop using older drug infusion pumps made by Hospira due to the risk of cyber attacks. A few months ago security experts highlighted the risks related to the hacking of older drug infusion pumps, we discovered that certain versions of common drug infusion pumps are affected by numerous […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2015
After the OPM Hack, the United States will strike back China

The US will strike back China in response to the recent wave of cyber attacks against Government offices, including the Office of Personnel Management. Recently, the New York Times published an article saying that the president of the United States, Barack Obama took the decision to retaliate against China, after the famous hack of the […]