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Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2019
A hacker has taken over at least 29 IoT botnets

Hacker “Subby” brute-forces the backends of 29 IoT botnets that were using weak or default credentials. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘Subby’ took over 29 IoT botnets in the past few weeks with brute-force attacks. The hacker ‘Subby’ took over 29 IoT botnets in the past few weeks brute-forcing the back end […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 212 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! AESDDoS bot exploits CVE-2019-3396 flaw to hit Atlassian Confluence Server Critical flaw in Qualcomm chips exposes sensitive data for Android Devices Signed Malspam campaigns hit Europeans with Multi-Stage JasperLoader […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2019
Hackers stole card data from 201 campus online stores in US and Canada, is it the Magecart group?

Magecart group stole payment card details from the e-commerce system used by colleges and universities in Canada and the US. Security firms have monitored the activities of a dozen Magecart groups at least since 2015. The gangs use to implant skimming script into compromised online stores in order to steal payment card data, but they are quite […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2019
Japan will develop its first-ever malware as a defense measure against cyber attacks

The news was reported by the Kyodo News and has caught my attention, Japan will develop its first-ever computer virus as defense against cyber attacks. The Kyodo News revealed that Japan will develop its first-ever computer virus as a defense measure against cyber attacks and that the development will be completed by next March. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2019
Mysterious attacks wipe Git repositories and ask a ransom to rescue code

Extortion practice hit programmers’ Git repositories, experts observed a new piece of ransomware that wipes them and replaces the code with a ransom note. Hackers are using a new piece of ransomware to target GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories, wiping code and commiting, and leaving a ransom note. The hackers wipe out all commit history […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2019
Mozilla plans to ban Firefox Extensions containing obfuscated code

Mozilla is going to update the Add-on Policy for Firefox to ban Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code starting from June 10, 2019. Mozilla announced a change to the Add-on Policy for Firefox to ban Firefox extensions containing obfuscated code starting from June 10, 2019. The move aims to prevent malicious extensions to threaten Firefox users. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2019
Expert found hundred of vulnerable Jenkins Plugins

A security researcher discovered vulnerabilities in more than 100 plugins of the Jenkins open source software development automation server. Jenkins is the most popular open source automation server, it is maintained by CloudBees and the Jenkins community. The automation server supports developers build, test and deploy their applications, it has hundreds of thousands of active installations […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2019
Cyber Defense Magazine – May 2019 has arrived. Enjoy it!

Cyber Defense Magazine May 2019 Edition has arrived. We hope you enjoy this month’s edition…packed with over 160+ pages of excellent content. Cyber Defense eMagazine for May 2019 [adrotate banner=”9″] [adrotate banner=”12″] Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – Cyber Defense Magazine, hacking) [adrotate banner=”5″] [adrotate banner=”13″]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2019
Using the Human Factor in Cyber Attacks

The Human Factor has a fundamental importance for the success of a cyber attack, for this reason it is important to create a culture of cyber security within organizations. Every day we see a large number of tools being implemented within enterprises and institutions due to the need to keep their environments more secure, along […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2019
Authorities shut down major darknet marketplaces: the Wall Street Market and Valhalla

German police have shut down one of the world’s largest black marketplace in the darkweb, the ‘Wall Street Market,’ and arrested its operators. The German police, with the support of Europol, Dutch police and the FBI, has shut down one of the world’s largest black marketplace in the darkweb, the ‘Wall Street Market,’ and arrested […]