Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2017
Pwn2Own 2017 is started, as usual, it is a great event to see hackers at work. In the first day, experts hacked Edge, Safari, Ubuntu, and Adobe Reader. Pwn2Own 2017 competition held in Vancouver (Canada) is started, as usual, it is a great event to see hackers at work. In the first day Bug bounty hunters […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2017
A flaw recently fixed in the Linux kernel tracked as CVE-2017-2636 might have been exploited to gain privilege escalation or cause a DoS condition. The security expert Alexander Popov from Positive Technologies has discovered a race condition in the n_hdlc driver that might be exploited by attackers for privilege escalation in the operating system. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-2636, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2017
Drupal development team has issued a new release of the popular content management system (CMS), Drupal version 8.2.7, that fixes multiple vulnerabilities. The Drupal development team has released the Drupal version 8.2.7 that addressed a number of vulnerabilities in the popular CMS. The list of flaws includes an access bypass issue, a cross-site request forgery […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2017
A single picture could have been used by attackers to hack the popular secure messaging applications WhatsApp and Telegram. Security experts from Checkpoint have discovered a vulnerability that was present in both messaging services. The hack only affected the browser-based versions of both WhatsApp and Telegram. The flaw affected the way both apps process images and multimedia […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2017
Turkey vs Holland – Hackers launched a massive hacking campaign that hijacked hundreds of High-Profile Accounts to spread political messages against Holland. A huge number of high-profile Twitter accounts have been hijacked following the recent diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands. The hackers posted through many Twitter accounts political messages in the Turkish language including a link […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2017
Canada Revenue Agency confirmed it shut down its website for filing federal taxes due to a cyber attack leveraging the CVE-2017-5638 flaw in Apache Struts 2 The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) confirmed it shut down its website for filing federal taxes after hackers broke into the server at the nation’s statistics bureau. The security breach occurred […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2017
Cybercriminals hijack Magento Realex Payments extension to steal payment card data. Experts at Sucuri are observing massive attacks. Cybercriminals continue to target Magento platform to steal credit card data. Crooks have been abusing a payment module to steal payment card data from online shops running on Magento e-commerce platform. According to experts at security firm Sucuri, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2017
On Friday, Cisco confirmed that at least some of its products are affected by an Apache Struts 2 command execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-5638. The CVE-2017-5638 remote code execution zero-day has been exploiting by attackers in the wild, it affects Struts 2.3.5 through 2.3.31 and Struts 2.5 through 2.5.10. According to the experts from Cisco Talos, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2017
After CIA leak, Intel Security releases CHIPSEC, a detection tool for EFI rootkits that detect rogue binaries inside the computer firmware. A few days ago, WikiLeaks announced it is working with software makers to fix the zero-day flaws in Vault7 dump that impacted their products and services. The organization is sharing information on the hacking tools […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2017
Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through Dropbox, but the company quickly adopted the countermeasures to stop the attack. According to the experts from security firm AppRiver, Danish-speaking users were hit by an unusual malware-based attack. The attack hit Denmark, Germany, and several surrounding Scandinavian countries on Wednesday morning. Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through […]
