Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2019
WordPress Plugin Facebook Widget affected by authenticated XSS

Security experts at Plugin Vulnerabilities have discovered an authenticated Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw in Facebook Widget. Researchers at Plugin Vulnerabilities have discovered an authenticated Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) flaw in the Facebook Widget (Widget for Facebook Page Feeds). The plugin is one of the 1,000 most popular plugins and it was closed on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2019
Android devices could be hacked by playing a video due to CVE-2019-2107 flaw

Watch out! Playing a video on Android devices could be a dangerous operation due to a critical CVE-2019-2107 RCE flaw in Android OS between version 7.0 and 9.0. Playing a specially-crafted video on devices with the Android’s native video player application could allow attackers to compromise them due to a dangerous critical remote code execution […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2019
Jessica Alba ‘s Twitter account hacked, it posted racist and homophobic messages

Over the weekend, Jessica Alba’s Twitter account was hacked, the miscreants posted homophobic, racist and Nazi-sympathizing messages. On Saturday evening, miscreants hacked the Twitter account of the actress Jessica Alba and posted hateful, homophobic, and racist messages that remained live for hours. One of the messages posted by the hackers reads “Nazi Germany Did Nothing […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2019
Crooks used rare Steganography technique to hack fully patched websites in Latin America

Experts at Trustwave observed threat actors using a rare technique to compromise fully patched websites. Security experts at Trustwave observed threat actors using a rare steganography technique, attackers are hiding PHP scripts in Exchangeable Image Format (EXIF) headers of JPEG images that are uploaded on the website. The Exchangeable image file format is a standard […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2019
Hackers inject Magecart multi-gateway skimmer in fake Google domains

Attackers deployed a Magecart credit card skimmer script into fake Google domains used to trick visitors into making online transactions.  Experts at Sucuri discovered threat actors using fake Google domains hosting a Magento skimmer script used to steal payment data when unaware visitors make transactions. The campaign was uncovered when the owner of a website […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2019
A flaw in LibreOffice could allow the hack of your PC

LibreOffice users have to know that their unpatched computers could be hacked by simply opening a specially crafted document. Bad news for LibreOffice users, the popular free and open-source office suite is affected by an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability Recently, LibreOffice released the latest version 6.2.5 that addresses two severe flaws tracked as CVE-2019-9848 and CVE-2019-9849. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2019
Irish Silk Road admin sentenced to 78 months in federal prison

An Irish national has been sentenced to 78 months in jail for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk Road dark web marketplace. Gary Davis (31), of Wicklow, Ireland, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2019
Imperva blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack it has ever seen

Researchers at Imperva revealed that an undisclosed streaming service was hit by a massive DDoS attack that stopped it for 13 days. An undisclosed streaming service was hit by a 13‑day DDoS massive attack powered by a Mirai botnet composed of 402,000 IoT devices. Imperva confirmed that its systems were able to repel the attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 25, 2019
New variant of Linux Botnet WatchBog adds BlueKeep scanner

Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. Researchers at Intezer have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet, that also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708). […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 25, 2019
German firms BASF, Siemens, Henkel hit by cyber attacks

A new wave of cyber attacks carried out by a China-linked APT group hit German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel and others. On Wednesday, German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel along with a host of others confirmed they had been targeted by a wave of cyber attacks. German media reported that the cyber attacks were […]