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Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2018

Experts found data belonging to 82 Million US Users exposed on unprotected Elasticsearch Instances

Security experts at HackenProof are warning Open Elasticsearch instances expose over 82 million users in the United States. Experts from HackenProof discovered Open Elasticsearch instances that expose over 82 million users in the United States. Elasticsearch is a Java-based search engine based on the free and open-source information retrieval software library Lucene. It is developed in Java […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2018

New Zealand Security Bureau halts Spark from using Huawei 5G equipment

New Zealand intelligence agency asked mobile company Spark to avoid using Huawei equipment for 5G infrastructure. According to New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau, Huawei equipment for 5G infrastructure poses a “significant network security risk,” for this reason, it asked mobile company Spark to avoid using the equipment of the Chinese company. The announcement follows the decision of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2018

Hacker hijacks printers worldwide to promote popular YouTube channel

The TheHackerGiraffe used the Printer Exploitation Toolkit (PRET) to hijack +50k vulnerable printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel. An anonymous hacker hijacked over 50,000 internet-connected printers worldwide to print out messages promoting the subscription to the PewDiePie YouTube channel. Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, aka PewDiePie, is a popular Swedish Youtuber, comedian, and video game commentator, formerly best known for his Let’s Play commentaries […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2018

Moscow’s New Cable Car closed due to a ransomware infection

Two days after Moscow opened a new cable car system hackers infected its computer systems with ransomware. The cable car system is long over 700 meters and spans across the Moscow river linking the Luzhniki Olympic Complex to the observation platform on Sparrow Hills. Two days after Moscow cable car was opened, the servers of the Moscow […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2018

Security Affairs newsletter Round 191 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · Very trivial Spotify phishing campaign uncovered by […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2018

Cisco addressed SQL Injection flaw in Cisco Prime License Manager

Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in the web framework code of Cisco Prime License Manager that could be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries. Cisco has fixed a vulnerability in Cisco Prime License Manager that could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries. The flaw is caused by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2018

ETERNALSILENCE – 270K+ devices vulnerable to UPnProxy Botnet build using NSA hacking tools

Over 270,000 connected devices run vulnerable implementations of UPnP, threat actors are attempting to recruit them in a multi-purpose botnet. In April, Akamai reported that threat actors compromised 65,000 home routers by exploiting vulnerabilities in Universal Plug’N’Play (UPnP), experts tracked the botnet as UPnProxy. Now the company provided an update to its initial analysis revealing […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2018

MITRE evaluates Enterprise security products using the ATT&CK Framework

The MITRE Corporation’s ATT&CK framework has been used to evaluate the efficiency of several enterprise security products designed by several vendors. In April, MITRE announced a new service based on its ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) framework to evaluate products based on their ability in detecting advanced persistent threats. The MITRE ATT&CK evaluation service evaluates endpoint detection and response […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2018

New PowerShell-based Backdoor points to MuddyWater

Security researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered PowerShell-based backdoor that resembles a malware used by MuddyWater threat actor. Malware researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a Powershell-based backdoor that is very similar to a malware used by MuddyWater APT group. The first MuddyWater campaign was observed in late 2017, then researchers from Palo Alto Networks were investigating a mysterious wave […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2018

327 million Marriott guests affected in Starwood Data Breach

Starwood Data Breach – Hackers accessed the guest reservation system of the Marriot owned Starwood since 2014 and copied and encrypted the information. Marriott International is the last victim of a long string of data breaches, the company announced that hackers compromised guest reservation database at its subsidiary Starwood hotels and stolen personal details of about 500 […]

Breaking News

Experts found data belonging to 82 Million US Users exposed on unprotected Elasticsearch Instances

New Zealand Security Bureau halts Spark from using Huawei 5G equipment

Hacker hijacks printers worldwide to promote popular YouTube channel

Moscow’s New Cable Car closed due to a ransomware infection

Security Affairs newsletter Round 191 – News of the week

Cisco addressed SQL Injection flaw in Cisco Prime License Manager

ETERNALSILENCE – 270K+ devices vulnerable to UPnProxy Botnet build using NSA hacking tools

MITRE evaluates Enterprise security products using the ATT&CK Framework

New PowerShell-based Backdoor points to MuddyWater

327 million Marriott guests affected in Starwood Data Breach

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