Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2018
Olympic Destroyer, alleged artifacts and false flag make attribution impossible

  According to Kaspersky Lab, threat actors behind the recent Olympic Destroyer attack planted sophisticated false flags inside their malicious code. On February 9, shortly before the Pyeongchang opening ceremonies on Friday, televisions at the main press centre, wifi at the Olympic Stadium and the official website were taken down. Hackers used the so-called Olympic Destroyer, a strain […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2018
Group-IB supported law enforcement in dismantling Ukrainian DDoS crime gang

Ukrainian Police supported by security firm Group-IB and other security firms dismantled a DDoS crime gang that blackmailed numerous companies worldwide. Another example of successful collaboration between law enforcement agencies and security firms in the fight against cybercrime, the case sees Ukrainian Police supported by security firm Group-IB and other security firms dismantling a DDoS […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2018
Hardcoded password and Java deserialization flaws found in Cisco products

The set of security updates recently released by Cisco also includes two advisories for critical vulnerabilities, a hardcoded password, and a Java deserialization flaw. The lasters set of security updates released by Cisco also includes two advisories for critical vulnerabilities. The first issue is a hardcoded password, tracked as CVE-2018-0141, that affects Cisco’s Prime Collaboration Provisioning […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2018
Leaked NSA dump contains tools developed by NSA Territorial Dispute to track state-sponsored hackers

A specific NSA unit, dubbed NSA Territorial Dispute (TeDi) developed these scripts to monitor activities of nation-state actors. Security experts at CrySyS Lab and Ukatemi have revealed that the NSA dump leaked one year ago by the Shadow Brokers hacker group also contains a collection of scripts and scanning tools the NSA uses to track operations of foreign state-sponsored […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2018
Corero Network discovered a Kill Switch for Memcached DDoS attacks

Corero network security discovers a “kill switch” for memcached DDoS attacks and also reveals memcached exploit can be used to steal or corrupt data Memcached DDoS attacks made the headlines due to the magnitude observed in recent offensives. While two PoC exploits for Memcached DDoS attacks have been released online, experts at security firm Corero Network announced […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2018
Two PoC exploits for Memcached DDoS attacks have been released online

Memcached DDoS attacks – A few days after the disclosure of the World’s largest DDoS attack record that peaked a 1.7Tbps, two PoC exploits code for Memcached amplification attacks have been released online. The technique behind Memcached DDoS attacks, is one of the coolest topics in cybersecurity at this moment. World’s largest DDoS attack record lasted […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2018
RCE flaw in Exim MTA affects half of the email servers online

A critical RCE vulnerability in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA), tracked as CVE-2018-6789, affects most of the email servers online. A critical remote code vulnerability in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA), tracked as CVE-2018-6789, affects most of the email servers online. It has been estimated that as in March 2017, the total number of Internet’s email servers running Exim was over […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2018
Funny? Useful? Cool? Kali Linux natively on Windows 10

It’s funny, but it is true, the popular Kali Linux hacking distro is available for download on the official Microsoft App Store on Windows 10. Kali Linux is now natively available on Windows 10, without requiring dual boot or virtualization. Kali Linux isn’t the unique Linux distribution available on the Windows App Store, Windows users […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2018
World’s largest DDoS attack record broken by a new memcached DDoS attack

World’s largest DDoS attack record lasted just a few days, Arbor Networks reported that earlier this month a US service provider suffered a 1.7Tbps memcached DDoS attack. On February 28, 2018, the code hosting website GitHub was hit by the largest-ever DDoS attack that peaked at 1.3Tbps. The powerful attack was abusing the memcached protocol to power […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2018
Critical flaw in Pivotal’s Spring Data REST allows to hack any machine that runs an application built on its components

A critical flaw in Pivotal’s Spring Data REST allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on any machine that runs an application built using its components. Pivotal’s Spring Data REST project is affected by a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-8046, that was discovered by security researchers at Semmle/lgtm. Pivotal’s Spring Framework a platform is widely used by […]