Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2017
WordPress 4.7.1 released, patches eight vulnerabilities and 62 bugs

According to the release notes the latest version of WordPress 4.7.1 addresses eight security vulnerabilities and other 62 bugs. Wednesday the latest version of WordPress 4.7.1 was released by the WordPress Team, it is classified as a security release for all previous versions. According to the release notes, the new version addresses eight security flaws […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2017
ShadowBrokers exits releasing another arsenal of tools to hack Windows

The ShadowBrokers hacking group that broke into the NSA arsenal and stole its hacking tools is signing off, leaving a gift to the security community. The mysterious hacking group calling themselves “The Shadow Brokers” has apparently decided to put an end to their failed attempts to sell exploits and hacking tools they claimed to have […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2017
Two observations about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign

Let’s try to analyze some facts about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign. Prof. Corrado Aaron Visaggio helped us in this difficult task. The Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign raised to me two simple questions: (i) Are the criminals geniuses or dummies? (ii) How can an old, known, easy-to-detect malware infect so many machines belonging to different […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2017
The ISC issued updates for 4 High severity DoS flaws in BIND

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has issued security updates to address four high severity flaws in the DNS software BIND. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has issued updates to solve four high severity flaws in the DNS software BIND. The flaw could be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a DoS condition. An attacker can […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2017
Thousands of unpatched Magento shops hacked in the last two years

According to the BSI more than 6,000 online stores running eBay’s Magento platform have been hacked across the last two years. According to the Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, more than 6,000 online stores running eBay’s Magento platform have been hacked across the last two years. Crooks targeted the e-commerce platform in order to steal credit […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2017
Juniper SRX firewalls open a root-level account due to a flaw

Experts at Juniper have discovered that an update for its Juniper SRX firewalls opens a root-level account on the network device. The company started warning its users, every user who issued the “request system software” command with the “partition” option is affected by the issue. The failure of the system update leaves it in a state where root CLI […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2017
ShadowBrokers offers for sale the stolen NSA Windows Hacking Tools

The ShadowBrokers is the hacker crew stolen the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group is offering for sale the stolen NSA Windows Hacking Tools. The ShadowBrokers is the hacker crew that leaked a portion of the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group, a precious archive containing hacking tools and exploits. At the end of October,  the hackers leaked a fresh […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2017
Hello Kitty database leaked online, 3.3 million fans affected

The Hello Kitty MongoDB database leaked online one year ago recently surface on the web, it includes 3.3 million records belonging to Hello Kitty fans. The security researcher Chris Vickery discovered a Sanrio database that was misconfigured and exposed to the public in 2015. On December 2015, Vickery reported the discovery to Databreaches.net and Salted Hash. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2017
Number of MongoDB ransom attacks peaked 27,000 in a day

According to the Australian Communications and Media Authority Antipodes the number of hacked MongoDB databases more than double to 27,000 in just a day. MongoDB ransom attacks soar, according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority Antipodes the number of hacked systems more than double to 27,000 in just a day. According to the experts, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2017
Security Researcher hacks “Anti Tracking & Pro Privacy” Brave Browser

A flaw in Brave Browser could be exploited by attackers to trick users into visiting a fake or malicious website to serve either malware or conduct phishing attacks. Brave is an open source project that promises to block Internet greed and ugliness while improving speed and protecting privacy. Basically, it blocks ads containing pixels and cookies […]