Hacking

CVE-2018-15982 Adobe zero-day exploited in targeted attacks

Adobe released security updates for Flash Player that address two vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-15982, exploited in targeted attacks.…

7 years ago

Email accounts of top NRCC officials were hacked in 2018

Threat actors had access to the email accounts of at least four NRCC aides and spied on thousands of sent…

7 years ago

M2M protocols can be abused to attack IoT and IIoT systems

Security experts from Trend Micro discovered that some machine-to-machine (M2M) protocols can be abused to attack IoT and industrial Internet of…

7 years ago

Russia-linked APT Sofacy leverages BREXIT lures in recent attacks

Russia-linked cyber-espionage group Sofacy, (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium) use BREXIT lures in recent attacks. The APT group used Brexit-themed bait documents on…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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.…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

Dissecting the Mindscrew-Powershell Obfuscation

The Yoroi-Cybaze ZLAB dissected the VBS script embedded into the zip archives delivered to the victims of a recent attack.…

7 years ago

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