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Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

Russian hacker Yevgeni Nikulin was extradited to the United States

Last week, the Czech Republic announced it had extradited the Russian hacker Yevgeni Nikulin (29) to the United States. Yevgeni Nikulin was requested by the US for alleged cyber attacks on social networks and by the Russian authorities that charged him with frauds. According to US authorities, the man targeted LinkedIn and Formspring and hacked into the file hosting […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

Tens of thousands of misconfigured Django apps leak sensitive data

The security researcher Fábio Castro discovered tens of thousands of Django apps that expose sensitive data because developers forget to disable the debug mode. Security researchers have discovered misconfigured Django applications that are exposing sensitive information, including passwords, API keys, or AWS access tokens. Django is a very popular high-level Python Web framework that allows rapid development of Python-based web applications. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2018 has arrived

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Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

Grindr gay-dating app exposed millions of users’ private data, messages, locations

According to an NBC report, the Grindr gay-dating app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could expose the information of its more than 3 million daily users. Every day we read of a new data breach, in some cases, exposed data could have a severe impact on the victim. According to an NBC report, the Grindr […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

Fauxpersky Keylogger masqueraded as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreads via USB drives

Security researchers at Cybereason recently discovered a credential-stealing malware dubbed Fauxpersky, that is masquerading as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreading via infected USB drives. Fauxpersky was written in AutoIT or AutoHotKey, which respectively are a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting and a free keyboard macro program to send keystrokes to […]