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Code Spaces, a code-hosting and software collaboration platform, has been brought down by a serious cyber attack which has caused its out of business, the attackers have deleted the data and backups of the company in a cyber raid. The Code Spaces firm has published an official statement to explain the incident to its u...
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Malware researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a new exploit kit, tracked as Underminer exploit kit, delivering a bootkit that infects the system’s boot sectors as well as a cryptocurrency miner dubbed Hidden Mellifera., “We discovered a new exploit kit we named Underminer that employs capabilities used by other exp...
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The new Lock Ransomware appends the same “.asasin” extension to the file names of encrypted documents as samples analyzed by security firm PhishMe in October., The malware authors attempt to trick the victims into double-clicking the envelope., “This new wave is being spread through Office Word documents, not only Micr...
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Hackers belonging the Anonymous collective compromised the website of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and leaked its database containing personal data of its members., The stolen data are related to personnel of WTO sites located in various countries, including Brazil, China, France, India, Indonesia, Pakistan,  Rus...
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Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet, it is the most popular MTA on the Internet., The Internet mail message transfer agent warned of flaws through the public bug tracker, an unfortunate choice to disclose it because the notice...
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A few days ago security a database containing 5 million alleged Google login and password has been leaked online on a Russian cyber security internet forum. Google immediately started its investigation and discovered that huge archive of Gmail credentials didn’t come from the security data breaches, rather the accounts...
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The UK-based Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has temporarily suspended its service in wake of compromise. Bitstamp announced that its systems suffered a major cyber attack, which lead to the theft of “less than 19,000 BTC”., “We have temporarily suspended Bitstamp services. Bitstamp customers can rest assured that their bitc...
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Security experts at Cyphort firm discovered a new malvertising campaign that hit numerous websites, including the Huffington Post and LA Weekly. The attackers exploited the AOL ad network to run the malicious campaign, Cyphort detected the attacks for the first time on Dec. 31 against the Canadian version of Huffington...
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New problems for Ubuntu Linux distribution, the security expert Donncha O’Cearbhaill discovered a critical vulnerability that could be exploited by a remote attacker to compromise a target computer using a malicious file., The vulnerability, a CrashDB code injection flaw, affects the Apport crash reporting tool on Ubun...
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According to security experts from the computer forensics company Elcomsoft, Apple has weakened the backup security protection of its recently-issued iOS 10 skipping certain security checks. This means that hackers could easily crack password protection used to protect the backups of iOS devices that are stored on Macs...
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VMware released security updates to address a vulnerability (CVE-2018-6983) that was recently discovered by Tianwen Tang of Qihoo 360’s Vulcan Team at the Tianfu Cup PWN competition., White hat hackers earned more than $1 million for zero-day exploits disclosed at the hacking contest that took place on November 16-17 i...
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The security expert Miroslav Stampar, a member of the Croatian Government CERT, has discovered a new worm, dubbed EternalRocks, that exploits the EternalBlue flaw in the SMB protocol to spread itself like the popular WannaCry ransomware., Stampar discovered the EternalRocks after it infected his SMB honeypot, he called...
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New legislation exempting police, GCHQ and other officers from intelligence department from prosecution in a connection to mobile and computer hacking by the said government guns, has been passed by the UK Government – quietly!, While normally controversial or major legislative changes in law tend to go through a parli...
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A hacker has stolen over 700,000 user accounts the from a popular law enforcement forum PoliceOne and is offering for sale the entire database., The PoliceOne forum is used by verified police officers and investigators to exchange information on techniques of investigation, training or other law enforcement centric dis...
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The capillary diffusion of mobile devices, the lack of security systems on these platforms and low level of awareness on principal cyber threats made them a privileged target for cybercrime. We have assisted in the recent year to an explosion of malware designed to hit principal mobile OSs, in a recent report Sophos se...
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We are in the middle of a battle in the cyberspace, with the advent of Presidential elections experts observed an intensification of the hacking attacks., While hackers target parties and personnel involved in the Presidential campaigns, the US Government threatens Russia is blaming its cyber army for the attacks., The...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a lawsuit against the Taiwanese firm D-Link, over failure to secure its IoT products, including IP cameras and routers., “Hackers are increasingly targeting consumer routers and IP cameras — and the consequences for consumers can include device compromise and exposure o...
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The move aims to replace the Intel processors running on its desktop and laptop systems like done for its own A-series custom chips that are used for iPhones and iPads., “Apple Inc. is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel Corp., according to people f...
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According to malware researchers at Symantec, the North Korean APT group Lazarus was likely behind a recent string of cyber attacks against organizations in 31 countries. According to Symantec, the Lazarus APT was behind high-profile attacks on Bangladesh Bank, Sony and South Korea,, The activity of the Lazarus Group s...
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According to the security advisory published by Google Security Team’s Jason Geffner and Jan Bee on Seclists, it is possible to get remote root execution on Apple Mac systems via Man-In-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks. The attackers can get root-level remote code execution on a Mac by intercepting the ESET antivirus package’...
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Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a widely adopted protocol for remote administration, but it could dramatically enlarge the attack surface if it isn’t properly managed., The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and the DHS issued a joint alert to highlight the rise of RDP as an attack vector., Attackers are exploi...
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Cyber technology could be a catalyst to equality in the labor market. Its power is seeded in the ability of everyone to gain skills without social entry barriers. To succeed in the cyber labor market, one has to have curiosity, creativity and the Patience to learn a computer language. In contrast to other skills, one c...
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The security experts Vulnerability Lab CEO Benjamin Kunz Mejri and Marco Onorati have discovered a number of SQL injection vulnerabilities in the websites of the European Parliament and the European Commission., The exploitation of the flaws in the websites of the European Parliament and the European Commission could r...
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A new study commissioned by the engineering firm Siemens revealed that oil and gas industry in the United States is largely unprepared to mitigate cybersecurity risks in operational technology (OT) environments., The survey was conducted by the Ponemon Institute and involved 377 individuals who are responsible for secu...
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Stolen email credentials from the largest US universities are a precious commodity in the dark web, crooks are offering them for a price ranging from $3.50 to $10 apiece., The researchers, supported by a research firm ID Agent, found 13,930,176 credentials from those big schools, mostly from the University of Michigan ...
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After a long investigation conducted by the Italian Competition Authority AGCM, the agency has fined Apple and Samsung a 5 million Euros ($5.8 Million) and 10 million Euros ($11.5 Million) for “planned obsolescence” of their mobile devices., Both companies are accused to have been slowing down their old devices with th...
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FBI released the Internet Crime Compliant Center – IC3 report of 2015 last week. During the last calendar year, IC3 received 288,012 complaints and 44 percent of them reported financial loss equal to $1,070,711,522. Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and Ransomware are the hottest topics o...
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The Majority are aware of the impact cyber-attacks can have on Industrial Control Systems however, the reality in terms of mitigation techniques are shrouded with confusion and a reactive approach. Recent 0-day vulnerability dubbed as ‘Panel Shock’ found in Schneider Electric’s SCADA Human Machine Interface (HMI) devic...
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The Internet of Things is expected to lead to 50 billion connected devices by 2020 collecting and exchanging personal data about their users, their lives, their preferences and tastes.  This will lead not only to relevant data protection issues, but also to increased cybercrime related risks triggering the need to ensu...
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One of the sectors most targeted by cyber attacks and by malware is the banking, during the last months we have read several times of agents developed to steal credentials of accounts and to realize complex frauds. We all remember malicious applications such as Spyeye and Zeus, the second is considered for example one ...
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According to documents obtained by The Intercept, the CIA is funding a new skincare line that can allow the agency to collect DNA., “SKINCENTIAL SCIENCES, a company with an innovative line of cosmetic products marketed as a way to erase blemishes and soften skin, has caught the attention of beauty bloggers on YouTube, ...
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The security researcher Stefan Winter from the Luxembourg’s high-speed academic network RESTENA has discovered a FreeRADIUS TLS resumption authentication bypass., FreeRADIUS is the world’s most popular RADIUS Server, “it is the basis for multiple commercial offerings. It supplies the AAA needs of many Fortune-500 compa...
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We have discussed several times regarding the intention of the FBI to create a special unit for internet monitoring and surveillance, a task force established to prevent and fight cyber crimes .In reality the Bureau already has different internal units that work with the same purpose and in the last years has promoted ...
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Cisco patches a DoS vulnerability in IOE XE software that was introduced due to changes to its implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) over an Ethernet VPN., The Cisco IOS XE operating system automates network operations and manages wired and wireless networks., The vulnerability in the IOS XE, tracked as C...
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Today’s teens are in a world with major communication and productivity channels open to them and they don’t have the knowledge to defend themselves against the fraud, identity theft, privacy leaks and other attacks made against them just for using the Internet. This is the main reason for Hacker Highschool (HHS)., , Th...
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Christmas is approaching, and the experts are already at work, including the authors of PoS malware that at that time maximize their profits., The criminal group behind the FastPoS PoS malware have updated its malicious code to improve the efficiency of stealing credit card data from infected systems ahead of the festi...
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A resident in the Gaza strip pleads guilty for hacking into drones belonging to the Israeli Defense Force., An Israeli court accepted a guilty plea from Islamic Jihad master hacker Maagad Ben Juwad Oydeh for the alleged hack of Israeli drones while the UAVs were involved in reconnaissance activities over Gaza., The gui...
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Meltdown and Spectre security updates made the headlines again, according to the security researcher Ulf Frisk some of them issued for Windows introduce a severe flaw., The Meltdown and Spectre security updates released by Microsoft in January and February for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 patch Meltdown are aff...
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Many reports published by security firms warn of the increasing threat represented by Iranian hackers. US and Israeli organizations represent a privileged target for these hackers, last year they used stolen private pictures of IDF’s women soldiers to breach Israeli military server., According to a report published by ...
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There is another whistleblower inside the US Intelligence, according to the popular journalist Glenn Greenwald Edward Snowden was not alone as revealed in the new documentary about Edward Snowden that premiered in New York last week., The two-hour documentary was the highlight of the New York Film Festival, it was dire...
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According to the Guardian, the social network giant Facebook put the safety of its content moderators at risk after inadvertently exposing their personal details to suspected terrorist users on the social network., A bug in the software used by moderators to review and remove inappropriate content resulted in the discl...
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No doubt, the news of the beginning of the year is the alleged theft of the source of the Symantec antivirus. The news is sensational, “They stole everything to the police station!”, hilarious but very serious. Let’s try to resume the events. A group that calling itself the Lords of Dharmaraja has posted online a piece...
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, When the gun first fired without authentication “I almost didn’t believe it had actually worked. I had to fire it again,” the researcher said. “And that’s how I found out for $15 (£11.50) of materials you can defeat the security of this $1,500 (£1,150) smart gun.” said Plore., Plore demonstrated that he was also able...
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The US President Donald Trump intends to extend by one year the Executive Order 13694 that gives the US Governments special powers to issue sanctions against people and organizations engaged in significant cyberattacks and cybercrime against the U.S., The Executive Order 13694 was introduced by former President Barack ...
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According to experts from the firm Zimperium, multiple vulnerabilities in the Android remote management tool AirDroid could expose more than 50 million devices, The flaws could be exploited to abuse built-in features and use them against the application’s users., Experts highlight that AirDroid uses insecure communicat...
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Hyatt Hotels revealed that 250 of its resorts have been involved in the data breach suffered last year. In December the Hyatt Hotels Corporation issued an official announcement to inform its users that unknown hackers used a malicious code to steal credit card information from customers, the company did not provide inf...
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Browsers have long been a hot target of numerous hacking-related incidents. They are the primary source of hacking incidents as we search, share, watch and download files from browsers. Moreover, various vulnerabilities exists in browsers, emphasizing the fact of using necessary tools to make your browser hacker-proof....
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As most of you already know I have officially presented my new Co a couple of months ago, CybSec Enterprise is its name and we already started to work on strategic projects that we will reveal soon … meantime I apologize for the website that is still under construction., , We have already launched a malware Lab, let’s ...
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Apple fans, I have a bad news for you, just one specially-crafted message can expose your personal information, including your authentication credentials stored in the memory of your Apple device., This means that your Wi-Fi passwords, login credentials, and email logins, could be easily compromised in the attack. The ...
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Ransomware continues to represent one of the most insidious and aggressive cyber threats, a new campaign launched by threat actors in the wild is impersonating the telecom giant Telia., According to the experts at the Heimdal Security firm, millions of Telia’s customers are exposed to the risk of infection. Hackers hav...
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The best news of the week with Security Affairs, , , , Once again thank you!, Pierluigi Paganini, (Security Affairs – Newsletter, SecurityAffairs)
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Two days ago, reading the news that lawful interception malware FinFisher was discovered in the wild I thought …, “wow finally we have the evidence, probably we will debate for a long time regarding the use of this tool and of similar agents”, But as fate would have it the same day came the news that a new malware has ...
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The Juniper Networks company announced last week it would stop using a portion of code that security experts believe was developed by the National Security Agency in order for surveillance purposes., The code that relies on numbers generated by Dual Elliptic Curve technology could be exploited by the US intelligence to...
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The hacker 0x2Taylor is claiming to have breached an Amazon server containing login credentials of Kindle users. As a proof the hack, the hacker leaked online more than 80,000 credentials belonging to Amazon users, he also explained that the company ignored his warnings about the existence of vulnerabilities in its ser...
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Group-IB is one of the leading companies in fraud prevention, cybercrime and high-tech crime investigations, it is IMPACT-ITU member and one of most active firms in the analysis if cyber criminal phenomena., The firm reported that cyber criminals use personal and confidential data of senior management of different fina...
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 , Today I desire to analyze with you the data proposed by FireEye in the 2013 Advanced Threat Report (ATR), the study provides a high-level overview of the computer network attacks discovered by the company during 2013. The 2013 Advanced Threat Report (ATR) is focused on the advanced persistent threat (APT) evolution,...
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The affected models are ThinkPad 10,  ThinkPad L460, ThinkPad P50s, ThinkPad T460, ThinkPad T460p, ThinkPad T460s, ThinkPad T560, ThinkPad X260 and ThinkPad Yoga 260., One of the flaws was discovered in June by Google that publicly disclosed it in September. Google also published a proof-of-concept exploit for a Wi-Fi ...
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The effort is necessary to fight against terrorism in a wake of the recent tragic Manchester attack., “The G7 calls for Communication Service Providers and social media companies to substantially increase their efforts to address terrorist content,” the G7 states said in a statement., “We encourage industry to act urge...
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Technology in modern warfare has assumed a crucial role, every government is developing new cyber capabilities to be able to contrast and prevent cyber threats the fifth domain of warfare, the cyberspace., Today the concept of warfare is profoundly changed, many states choose to attack foreign governments exploring new...
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On Monday, the popular question-and-answer website Quora suffered a major data breach, unknown hackers breached its systems and accessed 100 million user data., The company is notifying the incident to the affected users and reset their passwords as a precautionary measure, it also reported it to law enforcement. Quora...
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The transportation industry is considered part of the critical infrastructure of a country, and according to the IBM’s X-Force security team is it a privileged target for hackers., The report, Security Trends in the Transportation Industry, published by IBM this week confirms that cybercriminals are targeting the syste...
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In the most recent post of atxsec.com the owner of the blog talks about a flaw that he discovered after trying to pay his utility bill., To pay his utility bill he decided to use the web application of the utility company where the authentication is based on the client number. He did it, and once authenticated he shoul...
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The tech giant has reported customers four critical vulnerabilities affecting the Policy Suite., The flaws tracked as CVE-2018-0374, CVE-2018-0375, CVE-2018-0376, and CVE-2018-0377 have been discovered during internal testing., Two of these flaws could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to access the Pol...
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Internet of things devices are becoming a privileged target of cyber criminals, recently Akamai disclosed the existence of the Spike botnet which used by bad actors to run DDoS attacks through desktops and IoT devices. Another report issued by the same vendor explained that bad actors are exploiting vulnerable UPnP dev...
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According to experts from Kaspersky Lab, a number of organizations in Asia have been targeted with InPage zero-day., InPage is a word processor widely used in Asia because is supports languages such as Urdu, Persian, Pashto and Arabic. Its user base includes academies, libraries, government organizations, and of course...
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Another week, another batch of CIA Vault7 leaks was published by Wikileaks. This time the documents provide details about the Project Protego, a CIA Secret Missile Control System., The Project Protego is a PIC-based missile control system that was developed by Raytheon, one of major U.S. defence contractors, and mainta...
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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., The activity of the Satori botnet has been observed in 2017 by researchers from Check Point securit...
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Symantec researchers have discovered a new android malware toolkit dubbed Dendroid, early 2014 the company also detected AndroRAT, an Android Remote admin tool which is believed to be the first malware APK binder., Thanks to the diffusion of the Google mobile OS, Android platform is considerable a privileged target for...
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The UK’s National Crime Agency is investigating on cyber attacks on British bank accounts that allowed the criminals to steal £20m from the victims. The attackers have used the notorious Dridex banking trojan to harvest victims’ online banking details and steal money from their accounts., “Global financial institutions...
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, , , Once again thank you!, Pierluigi Paganini, (Security Affairs – Newsletter, SecurityAffairs)
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In 2012, security researchers identified a bug in modern DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips that could lead to memory corruption., In 2015, Google Project Zero researchers demonstrated “rowhammer“, a working exploit of this attack providing privilege escalation on vulnerable Linux and Windows systems. In 2016, r...
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Medical devices are open to cyber attacks, many studies have demonstrated that a large number of medical systems could be affected by security flaws that could be exploited by hackers., A few weeks ago, a group of researchers reported that drug infusion pumps are affected by numerous remotely exploitable vulnerabilitie...
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According to COSCO a “local network breakdown” disrupted some systems in the United States., Media confirmed the incident was the result of a ransomware attack and quoted a company spokesman as the source., “The China Ocean Shipping Co. Terminal at the Port of Long Beach was hit by a cyberattack on Tuesday, July 24.” s...
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According to the experts at the Cybereason security firm threat actors breached an unnamed organization network and maintained persistence for months via a webmail server., The victim was a midsize public services company based in the United States that contacted the Cybereason firm to investigate possible intrusions.,...
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Security researchers at Morphisec discovered a discovered stealth attack technique dubbed CIGslip that could be exploited by attackers to bypass Microsoft Code Integrity Guard (CIG) and inject malicious libraries into protected processes., “Morphisec researchers Michael Gorelik and Andrey Diment have discovered CIGslip...
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Messaging apps have been increasing rapidly in popularity. WhatsApp has gone over one billion users and Telegram claims to have over 350,000 people a day signing up for its services. So, it seems that there is a great need to cover communication freely and with some sort of encryption. Added security is always a wonder...
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A serious vulnerability found in the PwnedList could have been exploited by hackers to gain access to millions of account credentials collected by the service., The service PwnedList allow users to check if their accounts have been compromised, now a serious vulnerability could expose millions of account credentials co...
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Which are the most active malware in the wild?, According to a research conducted by CheckPoint Security, a malware landscape was characterized by some interesting changed in this first part of 2017., The Kelihos botnet climbed to the top position, while the Conficker worm dropped to fourth on the chart of malware., Wi...
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Since Robert Tappan Morris in 1988 created the first worm, cyberspace started to change its virtual state in a critical cyberwar field.  Even if the first worm was an error, aimed at trying to calculate the vastness of the Internet, it became an inspiration for all the studies and cyber activities in the recent history...
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As I explained in the presentation the trend for mobile malware is the design of malicious code able to infect both desktop and mobile devices to steal password and intercept transaction authorization codes used in two-factor authentication processes., Hesperbot is one of most interesting malware detect recently, i, ha...
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Security researchers at cloud security company Avanan have discovered a technique, dubbed baseStriker, used by threat actors in the wild to bypass the Safe Links security feature of Microsoft Office 365., The Safe Links feature is designed by Microsoft to protect Office users from malicious codes and phishing attacks, ...
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In Chile NFC electronic payment is already a reality, “Tarjeta BIP!” is the name of the payment system used to pay for public transportation with users’ smartphones that support the standard. The adoption of NFC standards for NFC ticketing application is a reality worldwide, many companies enable NFC ticketing payments...
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Privacy advocates and rights groups are in revolt against the UK law enforcement that has purchased mobile phone snooping technology., The rights groups are protesting against the adoption of the IMSI-catcher technology that could be used for dragnet surveillance., The IMSI-catcher is a surveillance solution used for i...
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The shipping giant Maersk was one of the companies that suffered the NotPetya massive attack, in August 2017 the company announced that it would incur hundreds of millions in U.S. dollar losses due to the ransomware massive attack., According to the second quarter earnings report, there were expecting losses between $2...
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Cyber security experts are warning of new attacks against U.S. government agencies, think tanks, and businesses., Threat actors carried out spear phishing attacks impersonating a State Department official to attempt compromising targets, the attacks are similar to the ones associated with Russia-linked group APT29  (ak...
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Tor network is even more used by cyber criminals to cover their illegal activities, the Tor community has observed, for example an alarming increase in the number of malware that abuse of the popular anonymizing network to hide their command and control infrastructures., Kaspersky security researcher Sergey Lozhkin pub...
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The organization that controls the development of the Bitcoin system, Bitcoin.org, has warned of possible cyber attacks coordinated by nation-state attackers., Bitcoin Core is the open source client for Bitcoin, the version Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 was released in April and a new one will be soon available (version 0.13.0)....
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It was a poor Patch Tuesday this month for Adobe that only addressed a moderate severity regression issue affecting Flash Player tracked as CVE-2017-11305., The vulnerability was described as a “business logic error,” that can cause the unintended reset of the global settings preference file., “Adobe has released a sec...
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Security experts at Fortinet have uncovered a critical update proposed by criminal ecosystem for P2P Zeus Botnet., The first P2P Zeus variant was uncovered by Trusteer firm a couple of years ago, it was used in a series of attacks against principal internet service providers and targeting users of popular web services ...
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The cloud-based development platform Wix.com is affected by a DOM-based cross-site scripting vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to gain full control over any website running on the popular platform. Millions of websites hosted on Wix.com are potentially at risk., At the time I was writing the flaw is st...
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Finally, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday commented the Cambridge Analytica case, he admitted that his company has failed in protecting its users, but he pointed out that the company has already adopted necessary measures to prevent future abuses., “we made mistakes” he said. “We have a responsibility to prote...
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A seven-year-old remote code execution vulnerability affects all versions of the Samba software since 3.5.0. The flaw has been patched by the development team of the project. An attacker can exploit the CVE-2017-7494 RCE to upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load and execute it., ...
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The US are among the most advanced countries in Information Warfare, Obama administration considers strategic the dominance of the country in the cyber space., The US Government established in 20o9 its military cyber command in order to defend the country from cyber attacks. Since the creation of the cyber army cyber t...
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Last month, the Tor Project announced that an internal investigation had confirmed the allegations of sexual misconduct against the notorious member Jacob Appelbaum., The allegations divided the internet privacy community, as a result of events the entire board of directors of the project was replaced., News of the day...
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The MAC address is a unique and an hardcoded identifier assigned to a device’s network interface. This characteristic makes it an excellent tool for the tracking of the devices. A group of researchers from the U.S. Naval Academy has devised a new attack method that can be leveraged to track mobile devices that rely on ...
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The security expert Andrea Micalizzi, also known as “rgod,”, has discovered a serious vulnerability in BitTorrent Sync (CVE-2015-2846) can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. The severity of the vulnerability has been rated as “high, in order to exploit the flaw the attacker have to trick the v...
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In 2014 an unknown hacker leaked online nude pictures of celebrities, including the popular and Kate Upton. We are speaking about the case known as The Fappening, the hacker took over a large number of Apple iCloud accounts, including those belonging to the US celebrities., News in the headline it the capture of the al...
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Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is the group of hackers that most of all is threatening the giants of the IT industry and media, the list of victims is very long (Facebook, Microsoft, NYT, Twitter, Forbes, EBay and many others)., This time the Syrian Electronic Army has hit the U.S Central Command (CENTCOM), the group sha...