Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2014
Asus routers are still vulnerable to remote hacking after months of the disclosure of the flaw that allows hackers to access to the device-connected drive. Ars security portal reported that hackers expose eight-month-old weakness in Asus routers by leaving a message on victims’ drives. An Ars reader claimed to have found a strange message browsing the content of his external […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2014
Speaking at Kaspersky Lab’s Industry Analyst Summit,Costin Raiu revealed details on The Mask campaign, the most sophisticated operation they’ve seen to date. The Kaspersky team recently announced to have detected a new significant APT campaign dubbed The Mask or âCaretoâ (Spanish for âUgly Faceâ or âMaskâ), a group of high-level state-sponsored hackers have been targeting government agencies, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2014
Speaking at Kaspersky Lab’s Industry Analyst Summit Costin Raiu, revealed that the cost for APT campaign is dramatically dropping. The cost of developing advanced malware has fallen dramatically malicious code like Stuxnet and Flame are today economically more affordable. It has been estimated that the expense for the development of a cyber weapon like Stuxnet,or for a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2014
Kaspersky experts discovered a java version of icefog espionage campaign that targeted at least 3 us oil, gas companies spreading a backdoor dubbed Javafog. Kaspersky Lab in September 2013 announced to have discovered Icefog team, an emerging group of cyber-mercenaries available for hire to conduct surgical hit and run operations against strategic targets. The cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2014
A default setting in Asus Routers allows an attacker to remotely access data archived on a USB media storage connected to the devices. Swedish users reported an alleged vulnerability in Asus Routers that allows an attacker to remotely access data archived on a USB media storage directly connected to the devices. Asus and many routers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2014
Cisco confirmed the presence of a Backdoor that affects small business devices. The flaw was discovered by the French hacker Eloi Vanderbeken weeks ago. Cisco has recently disclosed (Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20140110-sbd) the presence of a backdoor in different small business networking devices, it is an undocumented Test Interface that could be exploited by attackers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2014
UAE wants terminate a contract with French companies for the supply of two Falcon Eye spy satellites due the presence of security compromising components. United Arab Emirates could cancel a contract with Frence for the supply of two intelligence satellites due the discovery of what was described as âsecurity compromising components.â The UAE claims it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2014
The French hacker Eloi Vanderbeken discovered the presence of a backdoor in principal models of routers including Netgear, Linksys and Cisco. The presence of a backdoor in the commercial routers it is no more a surprise, we found flawed firmware in the popular D-Link in the past and now it seem that a similar problem […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2013
D-Link company has recently released a new version of firmware to fix backdoor vulnerability in various network device models. Last October the security expert Craig Heffner discovered a backdoor inside different D-Link routers. Craig published an interesting blog post on â/dev/ttyS0âł on the reverse engineering of the backdoor (CVE-2013-6027) present in many D-Link devices, it described how […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2013
Craig Heffner has discovered a new backdoor in the Wireless Routers produced by China based networking device and equipment manufacturer Tenda Technology. Just a week ago I wrote on a serious backdoor found by researcher Craig Heffner within the D-Link routers, today I’m here describing a new flaw discovered in the Wireless Routers produced by China […]
