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Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2016
IBM warns a spike in the number of PHP C99 Webshell Attacks

IBM Security has warned the WordPress community about a spike in the number of attacks leveraging a specific variant of the PHP C99 Webshell. Security experts at IBM reported a spike in the number of cyber attacks pushing a variant of the popular C99 webshell in February and March, a 45 percent increase compared to the previous period. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2016
A small drone hit a British Airways plane over the Heathrow Airport

The Metropolitan Police confirmed that a drone hits a British Airways plane while landing at the Heathrow Airport, and the number of incidents is increasing The Metropolitan Police confirmed that a drone hits a British Airways plane while landing at the Heathrow Airport. The news is disconcerting and highlights the dangers related to the use […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2016
Experts discovered a number of flaws in the Avactis PHP Shopping Cart

A group of experts at VoidSec used a Grey Box approach to assess the security posture of some important aspects of Avactis PHP Shopping Cart. Avactis is an open source ecommerce Shopping Cart platform most used in US and UK. Security experts from VoidSec analyzed the e-commerce software discovered an impressive number of vulnerabilities. The group of experts […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2016
PhineasFisher explained how he breached the Hacking Team

The hacker PhineasFisher published a detailed explanation of how he has hacked the Italian surveillance firm Hacking Team. In July 2015, the surveillance firm Hacking Team suffered a serious security breach, unknown attackers have exfiltrated some 400Gbs of data (including emails, internal documents, and exploit source code), but since now no news regarding the attack was disclosed. Now the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2016
Lottery security director hacked random-number generator to rig lotteries

New evidence collected by prosecutors shows lottery machines were rigged to generate predictable numbers on specific days of the year. Last year, the security director of a US lottery was discovered hacking the mechanism of the extraction in order to predict the winning tickets. According to new details revealed by The Des Moines Register, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 56 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Security experts shut down the dreaded Linux Mumblehard botnet Cyber Justice Team claims a massive Data Leak from the Syrian Gov Security Affairs newsletter Round 55 – News of the week Be careful Amazon is selling products […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2016
Europol and Italian Carabinieri an international ATM Skimming network

The Italian law enforcement corp Carabinieri and the Europol have dismantled an international criminal group responsible for large-scale ATM skimming. Last Week, the Italian law enforcement corp Carabinieri, in a joint operation with the Europol, has dismantled an international criminal group responsible for large-scale ATM skimming, forgery of documents and money laundering. The operation was codenamed […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2016
American company lost $100 million to BEC fraud

US prosecutors confirmed on Thursday that an American firm lost nearly $100 million in a BEC (business email compromise) scam. The Reuters Agency reported that an unidentified American company was the victim of a clamorous email fraud, scammers have stolen from the firm nearly $100 million. According to the US authorities, fraudsters used a fake […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2016
Watch out! URL shorteners could leak sensitive content

Two security researchers from Cornell Tech discovered that web URL shorteners operate in predictable way exposing sensitive data. The security researchers Vitaly Shmatikov and Martin Georgiev from Cornell Tech discovered that web URL shorteners operate in predictable way, and this could result in the disclosure of sensitive information. The duo analyzed the most popular URL shorteners, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2016
Urgent, Uninstall QuickTime for Windows Now

Apple abandons the support for the Windows version of quicktime, everyone should follow Apple’s guidance to uninstall it to avoid attacks. It is official, Apple will no longer provide security updates for the Windows version of the popular QuickTime. It is important to uninstall the product that remains vulnerable to cyber attacks, recently experts discovered […]