Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2019
Magecart group stole payment card details from the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. The gangs use to implant skimming script into compromised online stores in order to steal payment card data, but they are quite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2019
The news was reported by the Kyodo News and has caught my attention, Japan will develop its first-ever computer virus as defense against cyber attacks. The Kyodo News revealed that Japan will develop its first-ever computer virus as a defense measure against cyber attacks and that the development will be completed by next March. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2019
Extortion practice hit programmers’ Git repositories, experts observed a new piece of ransomware that wipes them and replaces the code with a ransom note. Hackers are using a new piece of ransomware to target GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories, wiping code and commiting, and leaving a ransom note. The hackers wipe out all commit history […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2019
Mozilla is going to update the Add-on Policy for Firefox to ban Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code starting from June 10, 2019. Mozilla announced a change to the Add-on Policy for Firefox to ban Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code starting from June 10, 2019. The move aims to prevent malicious extensions to threaten Firefox users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2019
A security researcher discovered vulnerabilities in more than 100 plugins of the Jenkins open source software development automation server. Jenkins is the most popular open source automation server, it is maintained by CloudBees and the Jenkins community. The automation server supports developers build, test and deploy their applications, it has hundreds of thousands of active installations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2019
Cyber Defense Magazine May 2019 Edition has arrived. We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with over 160+ pages of excellent content. Cyber Defense eMagazine for May 2019 [adrotate banner=”9″] [adrotate banner=”12″] Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – Cyber Defense Magazine, hacking) [adrotate banner=”5″] [adrotate banner=”13″]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2019
The Human Factor has a fundamental importance for the success of a cyber attack, for this reason it is important to create a culture of cyber security within organizations. Every day we see a large number of tools being implemented within enterprises and institutions due to the need to keep their environments more secure, along […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2019
German police have shut down one of the world’s largest black marketplace in the darkweb, the ‘Wall Street Market,’ and arrested its operators. The German police, with the support of Europol, Dutch police and the FBI, has shut down one of the world’s largest black marketplace in the darkweb, the ‘Wall Street Market,’ and arrested […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2019
Cisco released security patches to address tens of vulnerabilities in its products, including a critical vulnerability affecting Nexus 9000 switches. Cisco released security patches to address tens of vulnerabilities in its products. Among the flaws fixed by Cisco, there is also a critical vulnerability in Nexus 9000 switches that is tracked as CVE-2019-1804 and that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2019
The availability of 10KBLAZE PoC exploits for old SAP configuration issue poses a severe risk of attacks for business applications. The risk of cyber attacks against SAP systems is increased after security researchers released PoC exploits for old SAP configuration flaws. SAP Message Server and SAP Gateway implements an access control list (ACL) mechanism to […]
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