Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2019
Did you win at online casinos? Watch out, your data might have had exposed online

Data belonging to online casinos found exposed online on unprotected Elastic search instance, it includes info on 108 million bets and user details Data breaches are an ordinary issue, this time an online casino group leaked information about 108 million bets including user details. Leaked data includes personal information and payment card details, including real […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2019
A flaw in MySQL could allow rogue servers to steal files from clients

A rogue MySQL server could be used to steal files from clients due to a design flaw in the popular an open source relational database management system (RDBMS). The flaw resides in the file transfer process between a client host and a MySQL server, it could be exploited by an attacker running a rogue MySQL server to access […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2019
Russian hacker Alexander Zhukov extradited by Bulgaria to US

Bulgaria has extradited a Russian hacker that was indicted by a US court for mounting a sophisticated hacking scheme to the United States. According to the Russian embassy in Washington, the Russian hacker Alexander Zhukov was extradited on January 18. The Russian embassy has chosen to disclose the news on the VK social network, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2019
DarkHydrus adds Google Drive support to its RogueRobin Trojan

Security experts attributed new malicious campaigns to the DarkHydrus APT group (aka Lazy Meerkat), threat actors used a new variant of the RogueRobin Trojan and leveraged Google Drive as an alternative C2 channel. DarkHydrus was first discovered by experts at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 team in July when the group carried out attacks aimed at […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2019
ES File Explorer vulnerabilities potentially impact 100 Million Users

Security expert Robert Baptiste (akaElliot Alderson) discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6447) in the ES File Explorer that potentially expose hundreds of million Android installs. The ES File Explorer is an Android file manager that has over 100,000,000 installs and more than 500 million users worldwide according to its developer. Baptiste discovered that the application uses a local […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2019
Fallout Exploit Kit now includes exploit for CVE-2018-15982 Flash zero-day

Experts at Malwarebytes have reported that the code for the recently discovered Flash zero-day flaw was added to the Fallout Exploit kit. Experts at Malwarebytes observed a new version of the Fallout Exploit kit that include the code to exploit a recently discovered Flash zero-day vulnerability. The Fallout Exploit kit was discovered at the end […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2019
Twitter fixed a bug in its Android App that exposed Protected Tweets

A bug in the Twitter app for Android may have had exposed tweets, the social media platform revealed on Thursday. The bug in the Android Twitter app affects the “Protect my Tweets” option from the account’s “Privacy and safety” settings that allows viewing user’s posts only to approved followers. People who used the Twitter app […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2019
Attacks in the wild leverage flaw in ThinkPHP Framework

Threat actors in the wild are leveraging a recently discovered flaw in the ThinkPHP PHP framework to install cryptominers, skimmers, and other malware. Multiple threat actors are leveraging a recently discovered code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-20062) in the ThinkPHP framework. The flaw was already addressed by the Chinese firm TopThink that designed the framework, but security expert Larry […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2019
Collection #1 dump, 773 million emails, 21 million passwords

The popular cyber security expert Troy Hunt has uncovered a massive data leak he called ‘Collection #1’ that included 773 million records. The name ‘Collection #1’ comes from the name of the root folder. Someone has collected a huge trove of data through credential stuffing, the ‘Collection #1’ archive is a set of email addresses […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2019
Critical bug in Amadeus flight booking system affects 141 airlines

A critical flaw in online flight ticket booking system developed by Amadeus could impact almost half of the fight travelers of 141 airlines around the world A critical flaw in online flight ticket booking system developed by Amadeus could be exploited by a remote attacker to access and modify travel details and claim his frequent […]