Dropbox team disclosed three critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple macOS, chaining them it is possible to take over a Mac computer. Dropbox team disclosed three critical zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-13890, CVE-2018-4176, CVE-2018-4175) affecting the Apple macOS operating system, an attacker could chain them to remotely execute arbitrary code on a targeted Mac computer. The attacker […]

Flaw allowing identity spoofing affects authentication based on German eID cards The authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed, an attacker could impersonate any other citizen. The nightmare comes true, the authentication process via German eID cards with RFID chips is flawed and a flaw could […]

Experts found first Mirai bot targeting Linux servers via Hadoop YARN flaw Security experts from Netscout Asert discovered more than ten Mirai bot variants attempting to exploit a recently disclosed flaw in Hadoop YARN on Intel servers. These Mirai variants are the first one that doesn’t target Internet of Things devices, […]

Sofacy APT group (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium) has a new weapon in its arsenal dubbed Cannon. The Russia-linked APT group delivers Cannon in a spear-phishing attack that targets government organizations in North America, Europe and in a former USSR state. Experts at Palo Alto Networks spotted a new campaign in late October and early […]

A security bug inside Instagram’s “Download Your Data” tool that could have been exploited to expose password of thousands of users around the world. The feature « Download Your Data » was introduced in April this year after the change in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  It allows users […]