Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2017
Exclusive: A criminal group using SSH TCP direct forward attack is also targeting Italian infrastructure

Exclusive: MalwareMustDie for Security Affairs released the list of the sites under attack. A criminal gang is using SSH TCP direct forward attack technique. MalwareMustDie is back and has published his the first post of 2017. The popular malware researcher has uncovered a cyber crime gang that is harvesting credentials and credit card numbers from major websites […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2017
The US Vice President Mike Pence’s personal AOL account was hacked

The US Vice President Mike Pence’s personal AOL account was hacked, once again politics were breached due to wrong security posture. Pence has been harshly criticized after the discovery that he used his personal AOL account for Government issues. In 2016 attacker who compromised the Pence’s account sent out emails to his contacts saying he had been […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2017
Cloudflare tries to downplay the impact of the Cloudbleed incident

According to Cloudflare, an initial analysis conducted its experts reveals that no personal data was leaked due to the CloudBleed issue. On February 17 the Google Project Zero researcher Tavis Ormandy disclosed a serious bug in Cloudflare infrastructure, so-called Cloudbleed. Ormandy discovered that Cloudflare was leaking a wide range of sensitive information, including authentication cookies […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2017
Trolling, Doxing & Cyberstalking: Cybercrime & The Law

Trolling, Doxing & Cyberstalking: Cybercrime & The Law. Cybercrime is one of the greatest threats facing US with implications for national security. According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), “cybercrime is one of the greatest threats facing our country and has enormous implications for our national security, economic prosperity, and public safety. The range of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2017
Researchers spotted a hidden backdoor in Chinese IoT devices from the firm DblTek

Security experts at Trustwave have discovered a hidden backdoor in Internet of Things devices manufactured by the Chinese firm DblTek. Researchers from Trustwave have discovered a backdoor in IoT devices manufactured by a Chinese vendor that is refusing to fix it. The backdoored devices are produced by the VoIP firm Dbltek, the researchers speculate the backdoor was […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2017
ReBreakCaptcha – How to breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 using Google’s APIs

The researcher East-Ee Security devised a proof of concept bypass of the Google’s reCaptcha V2 verification system dubbed ReBreakCaptcha. East-Ee Security proposed a proof of concept bypass of the Google’s reCaptcha V2 verification system dubbed ReBreakCaptcha. The PoC uses the Google web-based tools for its purpose. According to the author, ReBreakCaptcha “lets you easily bypass […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2017
Tor webmail provider Sigaint is unavailable at least since February 11

Dark net webmail provider For the third consecutive week, the popular Tor web email service SIGAINT is unavailable and the real cause is a mystery. SIGAINT is one of the largest web email services on the TOR network that is used to send messages preserving the user’s anonymity. For the third consecutive week, the popular email service is unavailable […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2017
SQLi flaw in the NextGEN Gallery plugin exposes at risk of hack more than 1 Million WordPress Installs

More than 1 million WordPress website are at risk due to a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the NextGEN Gallery plugin. Update it asap. Security experts at Sucuri firm have identified a SQL injection flaw in the WordPress image gallery NextGEN Gallery that could be exploited by a remote to gain access to the targeted website’s backend, including sensitive […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2017
XSS flaws in Zscaler Cloud management software allow logged attackers to hack coworkers

Zscaler has fixed persistent XSS vulnerabilities affecting Zscaler Cloud management software that allow logged attackers to hack coworkers. Serious cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the Zscaler Cloud management software could be exploited by attackers to inject malicious HTML and JavaScript into the browsers of other users who visit the portal. In order to exploit the flaws, the attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2017
The Gamaredon Group is back with new weapons in its arsenal

The Russian state-actor dubbed Gamaredon is back and has been using a custom-developed malware in a new cyber espionage campaign. According to the experts from Palo Alto Networks, a Russian state-actor dubbed Gamaredon has been using a custom-developed malware in cyber espionage campaign on the Ukrainian government, military and law enforcement officials. The Gamaredon APT was first spotted in […]