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Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2015

Carbanak cybergang swipes over $300 million from banks

Kaspersky discovered that a multinational gang of hackers dubbed Carbanak cybergang has stolen at least $300 million from 100 financial institutions. A group of cybercriminals used a malware to steal at least $300 million from banks and other financial institutions worldwide, according to a report published Saturday by The New York Times. The hackers have named […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2015

Crooks steal money from Standard Chartered Accounts by hacking ATMs

A Group of hackers has stolen money from Standard Chartered Bank Accounts by hacking the ATMs of the organization in Pakistan. Recently Pakistan customers of the Standard Chartered Bank have received transaction alerts via email and SMS that alerted them about alleged withdrawals of Rs.50, 000 ($500) cash from their bank accounts. The problem is […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2015

Discovered 40000 vulnerable MongoDB databases on the Internet

Three German students have discovered that tens of thousands of MongoDB databases running as a service or website backend were exposed on the Internet. MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database which uses JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas (BSON) improving the integration of data between different applications. MongoDB is very popular for scalability, performance and high availability, it represents […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2015

How to remotely install malicious apps on Android devices

Security researchers discovered how to install and launch malicious applications remotely on Android devices exploiting two flaws. Security researchers have uncovered a couple of vulnerabilities in the Google Play Store that could allow cyber criminals to install and launch malicious apps remotely on Android mobile devices. The expert Tod Beardsley, technical lead for the Metasploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2015

How to hack Facebook photo album of every user

An Indian security expert Laxman Muthiyah exploited a vulnerability in Facebook Graph API mechanism to delete Facebook photo albums of every user. A critical flaw in the popular social network Facebook recently discovered could allow ill-intentioned to completely delete users’ Facebook photo album without being authenticated. According the security expert Laxman Muthiyah the vulnerability resides […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2015

JASBUG – Microsoft released a patch for a 15-years old flaw

Microsoft issued a security advisory for the JASBUG critical flaw, affecting all Windows OSs, that could be remotely exploitable. The news of the day is that a 15-year-old vulnerability in all Microsoft systems was fixed by the last critical patch issued by the company. The vulnerability, dubbed JASBUG and coded as CVE-2015-0008, could be exploited by an attacker to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2015

Dutch Government websites suffered a major cyber attack

The Netherlands’ ANP news agency revealed that the outage of Dutch Government websites, lasted for most of Tuesday, was caused by a major cyber attack. According to the Netherlands’ ANP news agency, the outage that brought down several Dutch Government websites for most of Tuesday was caused by a major cyber attack. The outage began […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2015

Exploiting Vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins, a cybercrime trend

A serious vulnerability in the FancyBox WordPress plugin makes it easy for a hacker to compromise any website based on the popular CMS. Last week SecurityWeek reported about another a zero-day flaw found in a WordPress plugin. This time, a new vulnerability found in the popular FancyBox for WordPress plugin could be exploited to inject […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2015

Unknown hackers hit Gas Pump Monitoring Systems in the US

Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that unknown hackers have compromised Gas Pump Monitoring Systems in the US … it’s security emergency. Researchers at Trend Micro and many other security firms have observed a significant increase in the number of cyber attacks against systems in oil and energy industries. Another worrying trend observed by the experts is […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2015

WhatsSpy Public tool can spy on Whatsapp users

WhatsSpy Public is a web-based tool that could allow an attacker to access Whatsapp user information related to his activity. WhatsSpy Public is a web-based tool created by Maikel Zweerink that can trace the moves of a WhatsApp user. WhatsSpy is able to display user information in a friendly dashboard that includes events being displayed […]

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Carbanak cybergang swipes over $300 million from banks

Crooks steal money from Standard Chartered Accounts by hacking ATMs

Discovered 40000 vulnerable MongoDB databases on the Internet

How to remotely install malicious apps on Android devices

How to hack Facebook photo album of every user

JASBUG – Microsoft released a patch for a 15-years old flaw

Dutch Government websites suffered a major cyber attack

Exploiting Vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins, a cybercrime trend

Unknown hackers hit Gas Pump Monitoring Systems in the US

WhatsSpy Public tool can spy on Whatsapp users

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