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Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2016

PanelShock 0-day Vulnerability Puts Thousands of Schneider Electric HMI Panels, Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure at Risk

Security researchers at CRITIFENCE cyber security labs publicly announced this morning (November 1, 2016) major cyber security vulnerabilities affecting one of the world’s largest manufacturers of SCADA and Industrial Control Systems, Schneider Electric. The zero-day vulnerabilities dubbed PanelShock, found earlier this year by Eran Goldstein, CTO and Founder of CRITIFENCE, a leading Critical Infrastructure, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2016

NSA Hackers The Shadow Brokers leaked another dump with NSA targets

The ShadowBrokers hacker group leaked a fresh dump containing a list of servers that were hacked by the NSA-linked group known as Equation Group. The notorious Shadow Brokers hacker group has posted a fresh dump containing a list of servers that were hacked by the NSA-linked group known as Equation Group. The hackers disclosed the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2016

Lotus Blossom Chinese cyberspies leverage on fake Conference Invites in the last campaign

The Chinese APT Lotus Blossom is trying to lure victims with fake invitations to Palo Alto Networks’ upcoming Cybersecurity Summit. The Chinese APT Lotus Blossom, also known as Elise and Esile, is behind a new cyber espionage campaign that is trying to lure victims with fake invitations to Palo Alto Networks’ upcoming Cybersecurity Summit. With this […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2016

Massive hacking campaign on Joomla sites via recently patched flaws

Experts from the firm Sucuri observed a spike in the number of attacks in less than 24 hours after Joomla released patches for two critical flaws. On October 25, Joomla released the version 3.6.4 to fix two high severity vulnerabilities, CVE-2016-8870, and CVE-2016-8869. The first flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-8870, could be exploited by attackers to create user accounts even if […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2016

Young hacker arrested for disrupting 911 Service with a TDoS attack

An 18-year-old man from Arizona, Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai, was arrested this week because he is suspected for the severe disruption of 911 service. A few weeks ago, a group of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber-Security Research Center demonstrated how it is possible to significantly disrupt the US’ 911 emergency call system. An attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2016

AV-TEST study sees search engine results even more poisoned with malicious links

According to a study published by the independent anti-virus testing outfit AV-TEST, the number of malicious search engine results has been increasing. The vast majority of the Internet users blindly trust data provided in response to their queries to the search engines. Actually, search engine results are increasingly poisoned with malicious links, the experts noticed a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2016

LDAP as attack vector could power Terabit-Scale LDAP DDoS Attacks

Security experts observed attackers launching a powerful LDAP DDoS, the new amplification method could peak Terabit-Scale attacks. LDAP DDoS attacks are the novelty in the threat landscape, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) protocol could be abused to power massive DDoS attacks. The LDAP is an open standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2016

Hacking back the Mirai botnet, technical and legal issues

Security researchers have found vulnerabilities in the source code of the Mirai botnet and devised a method to hack back it. The Mirai botnet, this name is familiar to security experts due to the massive DDoS attack that it powered against the Dyn DNS service a few days ago. The Mirai malware was first spotted […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2016

Michigan State University hacked, personal information leaked online

The young hacker Mys7erioN announced to have hacked into the database of a US organization, the Michigan State University. Data leaked online. Today I was contacted via Twitter by Mys7erioN who revealed me to have hacked into the database of a US organization, the Michigan State University. As proof of the hack, Mys7erioN published on Pastebin the records […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2016

AtomBombing Code Injection can potentially hack all Windows OS versions

Researchers from ENSILO have devised a method, called AtomBombing, to inject malicious code in Windows OS that bypasses modern anti-malware tools. Security experts from ENSILO have devised a method, called AtomBombing, to inject malicious code in Windows operating system that could not be detected by modern anti-malware tools. The Atom Tables are data structures used by the operating system to […]

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PanelShock 0-day Vulnerability Puts Thousands of Schneider Electric HMI Panels, Industrial Control Systems and Critical Infrastructure at Risk

NSA Hackers The Shadow Brokers leaked another dump with NSA targets

Lotus Blossom Chinese cyberspies leverage on fake Conference Invites in the last campaign

Massive hacking campaign on Joomla sites via recently patched flaws

Young hacker arrested for disrupting 911 Service with a TDoS attack

AV-TEST study sees search engine results even more poisoned with malicious links

LDAP as attack vector could power Terabit-Scale LDAP DDoS Attacks

Hacking back the Mirai botnet, technical and legal issues

Michigan State University hacked, personal information leaked online

AtomBombing Code Injection can potentially hack all Windows OS versions

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