Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2017
Qatar hack – Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties to the country

Recent Qatar hack is sparking diplomatic tensions in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties to the country. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain say they want to interrupt any diplomatic relation with Qatar. According to Al Jazeera, the Saudi kingdom made the announcement via its […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2017
A new report warns UK’s Trident submarines ‘vulnerable to catastrophic hack’

According to a report published by the London-based think tank Basic, the UK Trident submarines are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. According to a report published by the London-based think tank British American Security Information Council (Basic), the UK Trident submarine fleet is vulnerable to cyber-attacks. According to the report “Hacking UK Trident, A Growing Threat,” a cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2017
Nexpose appliances were shipped with a weak default SSH configuration

Security experts at Rapid7 have discovered a security issue in the SSH configuration for its Nexpose appliances tracked as CVE-2017-5243. Owners of Nexpose appliances have to apply an update to their systems to fix the issue in the default SSH configuration. The devices were shipped with an SSH configuration that allowed obsolete algorithms to be […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2017
Jaff Ransomware campaigns linked to a black marketplace

Security researchers linked Jaff ransomware campaigns to the backend infrastructure used by operators behind a black market. Security researchers at Heimdal Security who are investigating a new strain of Jaff ransomware discovered that the malware is sharing the backend infrastructure with a black market offering for sale stolen card data and account information. The black […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2017
NSA Exploit EternalBlue is becoming even common in hacking tools and malware

Security Experts are observing a significant increase in the number of malware and hacking tools leveraging the ETERNALBLUE NSA exploit. ETERNALBLUE is the alleged NSA exploit that made the headlines with DOUBLEPULSAR in the WannaCry attack. ETERNALBLUE targets the SMBv1 protocol and it has become widely adopted in the community of malware developers. Investigations on WannaCry […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2017
Unsecure Hadoop Distributed File System installs 5 PB of Data

According to Shodan search, unprotected Hadoop Distributed File System installations expose 5 PB of data. Hadoop servers that are not securely configured expose vast amounts of data, according to an analysis conducted using the Internet search engine Shodan. A study conducted by Shodan revealed that nearly 4,500 servers with the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2017
Crowdfunding initiative aims to buy Shadow Brokers leak before threat actors

Crowdfunding initiative aims to buy Shadow Brokers leak before threat actors will start using the hacking tools and exploits in the wild. The Shadow Brokers hacker group is going to launch a monthly subscription model for its data dumps, 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions goes for (100 Zcash), approximately $24,450 per month. The hacking tools and exploits that will […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2017
President Putin blames Patriotic Russian hackers for recent Election attacks

Russian President Putin says patriotic hackers may have powered attacks against foreign countries and denied Russia involvement. President Vladimir Putin says patriotic hackers may have launched cyber attacks against foreign countries and but denied Russia involvement in cyber espionage campaigns. Russian state-sponsored APT groups area accused of continuous interferences with 2016 US Presidential Election elections […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2017
Data Breach – OneLogin Password Manager Hacked

OneLogin company announced on Thursday that it had “detected unauthorised access” in its systems located in the United States. OneLogin is a leading identity and access management software vendor providing an identity-driven enterprise security solution. OneLogin is a popular password manager used by many Internet users to allow management of complex passwords as requested by […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2017
A recently discovered Linux flaw could be exploited by Sudo Users to gain Root Privileges

Security researchers at Qualys Security have discovered a Linux Flaw that could be exploited to escalate privileges and overwrite any file on the filesystem. Security researchers at Qualys Security have discovered a Linux flaw that could be exploited to gain root privileges and overwrite any file on the filesystem on SELinux-enabled systems. The high severity flaw, tracked […]