Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2017
Facebook dismantled a huge spam campaign leveraging bogus accounts

Facebook disrupted an international spam campaign leveraging on bogus accounts used to create “likes” and bogus comments. The security team at Facebook has disrupted an international spam operation after a six months investigation. The company has neutralized a coordinated campaign that was leveraging on bogus accounts used to create inauthentic likes and comments. “Today we are taking another […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2017
Cisco warns of two critical issues in IOS and Apache Struts

Cisco issued two “critical” security advisories, one for Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software, another for a flaw affecting Apache Struts 2. Today Cisco issued two “critical” security advisories, the first one for Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software, the second one for the recently discovered flaw affecting Apache Struts 2. The vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2017
CVE-2016-10229 Linux remote code execution flaw potentially exposes systems at risk of hack

The Linux remote vulnerability tracked as CVE-2016-10229 poses Linux systems at rick of hack if not patched. A Linux kernel vulnerability, trackers as CVE-2016-10229, potentially allows attackers to remotely take over a vulnerable system (i.e. Servers, desktops, IoT devices and mobile devices). “udp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via UDP […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2017
Hundreds of thousands Magento e-shops are exploited to hack due to an unpatched flaw

An unpatched vulnerability in Magento platform could be exploited by hackers to compromise fully web servers that host the e-commerce sites. An unpatched vulnerability in the Magento e-commerce platform could be exploited by attackers to upload and execute malicious PHP scripts on web servers that host online shops. The vulnerability was reported by experts at […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2017
Critical bug in SAP TREX affects SAP HANA and other applications

SAP has issued a security patch for the SAP TREX search engine that addresses also a two-years old critical vulnerability. SAP has issued a security patch for the SAP TREX search engine that addresses multiple vulnerabilities discovered by the experts in a 2015 patch released in December 2015. The SAP TREX search engine is used […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2017
Tens of thousands of compromised routers abused in WordPress attacks

Hackers exploited the CVE-2014-9222 flaw, also known as ‘Misfortune Cookie’, to hack thousands of home routers and abuse them for WordPress attacks. According to the experts at the security firm Wordfence tens of thousands, of home routers have been hacked and used to power cyber attacks on WordPress websites. The security firm observed a spike in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2017
Hackers can steal PINs and Passwords capturing data from smartphone sensors

A group of researchers has demonstrated that attackers can steal PINs and Passwords capturing data from smartphone sensors. Modern mobile devices are full of sensors (i.e. GPS, Camera, microphone, accelerometer, magnetometer, proximity, gyroscope, pedometer, and NFC) that could be exploited by hackers to gather data about owner’s activities? A group of researchers from Newcastle University demonstrated that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2017
Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes three flaws actively exploited in attacks in the wild

Today Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixed the zero-day Word vulnerability that has been actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Microsoft today patched the zero-day Word vulnerability that has been exploited in attacks in the wild. Just yesterday I wrote about a phishing campaign leveraging the flaw to deliver the Dridex banking Trojan. Microsoft published security […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2017
The Mirai botnet is back and includes a Bitcoin Mining component

Experts at IBM X-Force security firm warn of a new Mirai Botnet implementing Bitcoin crypto-currency mining capabilities. The Mirai botnet was first spotted in august 2016 by the security researcher MalwareMustDie, it was specifically designed to compromise vulnerable or poorly protected IoT. Once Mirai malware compromises an IoT device it recruits it into a botnet primarily used for […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2017
G7 DECLARATION ON RESPONSIBLE STATES BEHAVIOR IN CYBERSPACE

Presented the voluntary, non-binding norms of State behavior during peacetime in the G7 DECLARATION ON RESPONSIBLE STATES BEHAVIOR IN CYBERSPACE. The risk of escalation and retaliation in cyberspace, the increasing number of cyber attacks and cyber threats even more sophisticated could have a destabilizing effect on international peace and security. The risk of conflict between states […]