Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2020
Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. Experts warn of hacking campaign that is targeting organization using the Salt platform for the management of their infrastructure, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. The attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2015
Researchers at Veracode discovered that nearly 41% of enterprise applications using GNU C Library employ the Ghost-ridden ‘gethostbyname’ function. GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability, named as the GHOST vulnerability, was released by Qualys Guard on 27th January 2015. Severity of this vulnerability is “CRITICAL” and listed in CVE database as CVE-2015-0235. Vulnerability is termed as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2015
The Linux GNU C Library (glibc) versions prior to 2.18 are affected by the GHOST remote code execution vulnerability present in the ‘gethostbyname’ function. A new critical vulnerability is threatening the Linux community, the flaw affects the glibc GNU C library. The vulnerability is present in all Linux systems dating back to 2000 and could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2014
Trend Micro analyzed a targeted attack against a Taiwanese government entity which used a variant of the PlugX RAT that abuses the Dropbox service. Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that a targeted attack against a government agency in Taiwan was conducted using a variant of the PlugX remote access tool (RAT) which abuses the popular file hosting service […]
