Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2017
High severity bug discovered in CISCO NETFLOW GENERATION APPLIANCE

A flaw in Cisco NetFlow Generation Appliance tracked as CVE-2017-3826, could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a DoS condition. “A vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) decoder of the Cisco NetFlow Generation Appliance (NGA) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to hang or unexpectedly reload, causing a denial […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2017
ReBreakCaptcha – How to breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 using Google’s APIs

The researcher East-Ee Security devised a proof of concept bypass of the Google’s reCaptcha V2 verification system dubbed ReBreakCaptcha. East-Ee Security proposed a proof of concept bypass of the Google’s reCaptcha V2 verification system dubbed ReBreakCaptcha. The PoC uses the Google web-based tools for its purpose. According to the author, ReBreakCaptcha “lets you easily bypass […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2017
Alleged Master Keys for the Dharma Ransomware Leaked on BleepingComputer

Good news for the victims of the Dharma Ransomware, someone has released the alleged Master Keys on the BleepingComputer.com forums. The alleged Master Keys for the Dharma Ransomware has been released by someone on BleepingComputer.com forums. A member using the online moniker ‘gektar‘ published a post containing a Pastebin link to a header file in C programming […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2017
SQLi flaw in the NextGEN Gallery plugin exposes at risk of hack more than 1 Million WordPress Installs

More than 1 million WordPress website are at risk due to a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the NextGEN Gallery plugin. Update it asap. Security experts at Sucuri firm have identified a SQL injection flaw in the WordPress image gallery NextGEN Gallery that could be exploited by a remote to gain access to the targeted website’s backend, including sensitive […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2017
XSS flaws in Zscaler Cloud management software allow logged attackers to hack coworkers

Zscaler has fixed persistent XSS vulnerabilities affecting Zscaler Cloud management software that allow logged attackers to hack coworkers. Serious cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the Zscaler Cloud management software could be exploited by attackers to inject malicious HTML and JavaScript into the browsers of other users who visit the portal. In order to exploit the flaws, the attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2017
Dridex v4, the dreaded malware has been improved with AtomBombing technique

Malware author are using Dridex v4 in the wild, an improved version of the Trojan that includes a new injection method known as AtomBombing. According to researchers with IBM X-Force, vxers have improved the Dridex banking Trojan adding a new injection method for evading detection, the technique is known as AtomBombing. The researchers have spotted […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2017
The Singaporean Defence Ministry was hit by a cyber attack, no secrets were exfiltrated

The Singaporean Defence Ministry confirmed that threat actors have breached government systems stealing personal information of its employees. On Tuesday, the Defence Ministry confirmed that unknown hackers have breached government system and have stolen personal information belonging about 850 Singapore national servicemen and employees. Data accessed by hackers includes telephone numbers, dates of birth, and national […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2017
A flaw in ESET Endpoint Antivirus allows to hack Apple Macs, patch it now

A flaw in ESET Endpoint Antivirus is exploitable to get remote root execution on Apple Mac systems via Man-In-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks. According to the security advisory published by Google Security Team’s Jason Geffner and Jan Bee on Seclists, it is possible to get remote root execution on Apple Mac systems via Man-In-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks. The attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2017
The Necurs botnet is evolving, now includes a DDoS module

The Necurs botnet is evolving and recently the experts at BitSight’s Anubis Labs discovered that it was improved to launch DDoS attacks. The Necurs botnet continues to evolve and recently it was used by crooks not only to spread the dreaded Locky ransomware but he was improved to launch DDoS attacks. According to the researchers BitSight’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2017
Stolen EHR data is flooding criminal underground communities in the Deep Web

EHR data are precious commodities in the cyber criminal underground because of the lack of cyber security of healthcare industry. Electronic health record databases are becoming the most precious commodities in the cyber criminal underground. The healthcare sector has been the industry with the highest number of data breaches in 2015 when a total of […]