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Russian telco Rostelecom hijacks traffic for IT giants, including Google, Amazon and Facebook

Russian telco operator Rostelecom was involved in BGP hijacking incident that impacted hundreds of CDNs and cloud providers last week.…

6 years ago

Popular OGUsers hacking forum breached for the second time in a year

OGUsers, one of the most popular hacking forums, was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered…

6 years ago

Security Affairs newsletter Round 258

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Coronavirus-themed attacks March…

6 years ago

New Coronavirus-themed campaign spread Lokibot worldwide

Researchers spotted a new Coronavirus-themed attack, the messages pretend to be sent from the World Health Organization to deliver Lokibot…

6 years ago

Firefox 74.0.1 addresses two zero-days exploited in the wild

Mozilla releases Firefox version 74.0.1 to address two vulnerabilities exploited by threat actors in attacks in the wild, users should…

6 years ago

Magecart group 7 use new e-skimmer to steal payment data

RiskIQ researchers spotted a new ongoing Magecart campaign that already compromised at least 19 different e-commerce websites. Researchers from security…

6 years ago

100,000 WordPress sites using the Contact Form 7 Datepicker plugin are exposed to hack

An authenticated stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability could allow attackers to create rogue admins on WordPress sites using Contact Form…

6 years ago

New COVID19 wiper overwrites MBR making computers unusable

A recently discovered strain of malware exploits the current COVID19 pandemic to render computers unusable by overwriting the MBR. SonicWall’s…

6 years ago

Experts published PoC exploits for CVE-2020-0796 privilege escalation flaw on Windows

Researchers published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for the CVE-2020-0796 Windows flaw, tracked as SMBGhost, that can be exploited for local privilege escalation.…

6 years ago

LimeRAT malware delivered using 8-year-old VelvetSweatshop trick

Researchers spotted a campaign using Excel files to spread LimeRAT malware using the 8-year-old and well-known VelvetSweatshop bug. Researchers at…

6 years ago

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