Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2018
VPNs & Privacy Browsers leak users’ IPs via WebRTC

The security researcher Dhiraj Mishra (@mishradhiraj_) has studied how VPNs & Privacy Browsers leak users’ IPs via WebRTC Hi Internet, You might have heard about VPN’s & Privacy Browsers leaking users’ IPs via WebRTC [1] [2] Summary: Got CVE-2018-6849 reserved, wrote a Metasploit Module for this issue which uses WebRTC and collects the leak private IP address, however this module may […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2018
Philippine central bank has thrown an alert after SWIFT hackers hit Malaysia central bank

The Philippine central bank has thrown an alert to local financial institutions following a cyber attack against the SWIFT servers at the Malaysian central bank. The Philippine central bank has thrown an alert to local financial institutions following a cyber attack against the Malaysian central bank. According to Malaysian governor, the hackers attempted to steal money through fraudulent wire […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2018
Apple macOS issues reveal passwords for APFS encrypted volumes in plaintext

A security expert discovered severe security issues in APFS file system for macOS High Sierra that expose passwords of encrypted external drives in plain text. A vulnerability in APFS file system for macOS High Sierra operating system has been discovered by forensic analyst Sarah Edwards. According to Edwards, the flaw exposes passwords of encrypted external drives in plain text. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018
Tens of thousands of misconfigured Django apps leak sensitive data

The security researcher Fábio Castro discovered tens of thousands of Django apps that expose sensitive data because developers forget to disable the debug mode. Security researchers have discovered misconfigured Django applications that are exposing sensitive information, including passwords, API keys, or AWS access tokens. Django is a very popular high-level Python Web framework that allows rapid development of Python-based web applications. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018
Grindr gay-dating app exposed millions of users’ private data, messages, locations

According to an NBC report, the Grindr gay-dating app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could expose the information of its more than 3 million daily users. Every day we read of a new data breach, in some cases, exposed data could have a severe impact on the victim. According to an NBC report, the Grindr […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2018
Systems at a Power Company in India infected by a ransomware

A ransomware infected systems at the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power company in India, crooks demanded 10 million Rupees to get the data back. The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power company in India was hacked last week, attackers breached into its computer systems and stole the billing data of their customers. The hackers demanded 10 million Rupees to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2018
Drupal finally addressed the critical CVE-2018-7600 Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability

The Drupal development team has fixed the drupalgeddon2 vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to take over a website. A few days ago, Drupal Security Team confirmed that a “highly critical” vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7600, affects Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on March 28th. The vulnerability was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2018
CISCO addresses two critical remote code execution flaws in IOS XE operating system

This week Cisco patched three critical vulnerabilities affecting its operating system IOS XE,  two of them are remote code execution flaws that could be exploited by an attacker to gain full control over vulnerable systems. Cisco March 2018 Semiannual Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication addressed 22 vulnerabilities, 3 of them rated as […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2018
Boeing production plant infected with WannaCry ransomware

According to a report from the Seattle Times, the dreaded WannaCry ransomware hit a Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday. WannaCry is back, this time it infected some systems belonging to US aircraft manufacturer Boeing. According to a report from the Seattle Times, the dreaded ransomware hit a Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2018
Hackers took down Baltimore 911 system during the weekend

Another US city hit by hackers, over the weekend, a cyber attack took down part of Baltimore 911 system for seventeen hours. Part of its 911 service at the US city of Baltimore was taken down during the weekend by a cyber attack. The attackers targeted a specific server and took down the CAD system from 8.30am […]