Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2020
Flaws in WordPress Ultimate Member plugin expose 25K sites to hack

Multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting the Ultimate Member plugin could be easily exploited to potentially takeover up to 25K websites. Multiple critical vulnerabilities in the Ultimate Member plugin could be easily exploited to take over websites, the issue potentially impact up to 100K installs. The Ultimate Member WordPress plugin allows admins to easily manage membership to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2020
Ransomware operators use fake Microsoft Teams updates to deploy Cobalt Strike

Ransomware operators use fake Microsoft Teams updates to deploy Cobalt Strike and compromise the target networks. Ransomware operators are using malicious fake Microsoft Teams updates to deliver backdoors that lead the installation of the Cobalt Strike post-exploitation tool and compromise the target network. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is forcing a growing number of organizations and […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2020
Tetrade hackers target 112 financial apps with Ghimob banking Trojan

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab spotted a new Android banking Trojan, dubbed Ghimob, that is able to steal data from 112 financial Apps Ghimob is a new Android banking Trojan discovered by Kaspersky that is able to steal data from 112 financial apps. In July, cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky Lab have detailed four different families of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2020
Prestige reservation platform exposes millions of hotel guests

Millions of hotel guests worldwide were impacted by a data leak caused by a misconfigured S3 bucket used by Prestige Software’s Cloud Hospitality. Researchers at Website Planet discovered a misconfigured S3 bucket used by the Prestige Software’s Cloud Hospitality that exposed millions of hotel guests worldwide. The reservation system Prestige Software’s “Cloud Hospitality” allows operators […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2020
xHunt hackers hit Microsoft Exchange with two news backdoors

While investigating a cyber attack on the Microsoft Exchange server of an organization in Kuwait, experts found two new Powershell backdoors. Security experts from Palo Alto Networks have spotted two never-before-detected Powershell backdoors while investigating an attack on Microsoft Exchange servers at an organization in Kuwait. Experts attribute the attack to a known threat actor […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2020
Compal, the Taiwanese giant laptop manufacturer hit by ransomware

The Taiwanese electronics manufacture Compal suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend, media blames the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang. Compal Electronics is a Taiwanese original design manufacturer (ODM), handling the production of notebook computers, monitors, tablets and televisions for a variety of clients around the world, including Apple Inc., Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2020
E-commerce platform X-Cart hit by a ransomware attack

The e-commerce software platform X-Cart suffered a ransomware attack at the end of October, e-stores hosted by the company went down. At the end of October, the e-commerce software platform X-Cart suffered a ransomware attack, the infection brought down customers’ e-stores hosted by the company on its platform. The software and services company X-Cart was recently acquired […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2020
FBI warns of attacks on unsecured SonarQube used by US govt agencies and businesses

The FBI warns that threat actors are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to steal source code from US government agencies and businesses. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued an alert warning that threat actors are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to access and steal source code repositories from US government agencies and businesses. The alert, coded […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2020
Tianfu Cup 2020 – 5 minutes to hack Windows 10, Ubuntu iOS, VMWare EXSi, and others

Many popular OS and applications have been hacked during this year’s edition of the Tianfu Cup hacking competition. This year’s edition of the Tianfu Cup hacking competition was very prolific, bug bounty hackers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in multiple software and applications. The Tianfu Cup is the most important hacking contest held in China, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2020
Pwn2Own Tokyo Day 3: Team Flashback crowned Master of Pwn

On the third day of the Pwn2Own Tokyo 2020 bug bounty hunters hacked a Synology NAS and had multiple partial successes. We are on day three of the popular Pwn2Own Tokyo hacking competition that due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been arranged as a virtual event. The Pwn2Own Tokyo is actually coordinated by Zero Day Initiative from Toronto, […]