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Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2018
libcurl has had authentication leak bug dated back to before September 1999

According to a security advisory, libcurl is affected by a couple of issues, one of them might cause the leakage of authentication data to third parties. libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, it builds and works identically on numerous platforms. According to a security advisory, libcurl is affected by a couple of issues, one of them might cause the leakage […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2018
New HNS botnet has already compromised more than 20,000 IoT devices

A new botnet called Hide ‘N Seek (HNS botnet) appeared in the threat landscape, the malware is rapidly spreading infecting unsecured IoT devices, mainly IP cameras. The HNS botnet was first spotted on January 10th by malware researchers from Bitdefender, then it disappeared for a few days, and it has risen over the weekend. The number of infected systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Critical code execution flaw in Electron framework impacts popular Desktop apps such as Skype and Signal

A critical RCE vulnerability in the Electron framework impacts popular desktop applications, including Skype, Signal, Slack, GitHub Desktop, Twitch, and WordPress.com. A remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2018-1000006 was fixed in the Electron framework, which is used by popular desktop applications, including Skype, Signal, Slack, GitHub Desktop, Twitch, and WordPress.com. Electron is a node.js, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Are you a Tinder user? Watch out, someone could spy on you

Experts at security firm Checkmarx discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Tinder mobile apps that could be exploited to spy on users. Security experts at Checkmarx discovered two security vulnerabilities in the Tinder Android and iOS dating applications that could be exploited by an attacker on the same wi-fi network as a target to spy […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Less than 10% of Gmail users enabled two-factor authentication

According to Google software engineer Grzegorz Milka, less than 10 percent of its users have enabled two-factor authentication (2FA) for their accounts. The availability of billions of credentials in the criminal underground due to the numerous massive data breaches occurred in the last years makes it easy for crooks to take over users’ accounts. We always […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Bell Canada suffers a data breach for the second time in less than a year

Bell Canada is notifying customers about a data breach that exposed personal data of roughly 100,000 individuals, this is the second security breach in a few months. Bell Canada is notifying customers about a data breach that exposed personal data of roughly 100,000 individuals, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and account numbers. “The protection […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
Satori’s threat actors are behind the new Masuta botnet that is targeting routers in the wild

Masuta botnet targets routers using default credentials, one of the versions analyzed dubbed “PureMasuta” relies on the old network administration EDB 38722 D-Link exploit. Security experts at NewSky’s believe the operators of the recently discovered Satori botnet are launching a new massive hacking campaign against routers to infect and recruit them in the botnet. “We analyzed two variants of an IoT botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2018
According to TrendMicro Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks could reach $ 9 billion in 2018

According to a report published by the security firm TrendMicro, Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks could reach $ 9 billion in 2018. The report highlights the growth of damage caused by hackers who adopts new attack vectors techniques like the ones used recently by Lebanese intelligence agency Dark Caracal According to a report published by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
Intel recommended to stop deploying the current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches

Intel recommended OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors as well as end users to stop deploying the current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches. While the Linux father Linus Torvalds defines the Spectre updates “utter garbage”, Intel warns to stop installing current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches. Intel explained its approach in its technical note about Spectre mitigation […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2018
WordPress plugins and themes vulnerabilities statistics for 2017

WordPress plugins and themes vulnerabilities statistics for 2017. The statistics were derived from our up-to-date WordPress Vulnerabilities Database. We are monitoring a large number of sources to add new vulnerabilities to the database on a daily basis. The year in figures We added 221 vulnerabilities to our database. The total number of vulnerabilities decreased by 69%. During […]