Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2019
Oregon Department of Human Services data breach impacted 645,000 clients

Oregon Department of Human Services announced it was a victim of a data breach in January, roughly 645,000 potentially impacted. Oregon Department of Human Services officials confirmed that the organization has suffered a data breach that has exposed personal details and health information of 645,000 clients. The incident happened in January and the Oregon Department […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2019
Tor Browser 8.5.2 fixes Firefox zero-day. Update it now!

Developers at the Tor Project have released the Tor Browser 8.5.2 to address the recently fixed CVE-2019-11707 zero-day flaw in Mozilla Firefox. Yesterday I reported the news of a critical zero-day in Firefox that was addressed by Mozilla with a new release. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11707, is a type confusion flaw in Array.pop. Mozilla has addressed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2019
Bouncing Golf cyberespionage campaign targets Android users in Middle East

According to security researchers at Trend Micro, a cyberespionage campaign is targeting Android users in Middle Eastern countries. Security researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a cyberespionage campaign, dubbed ‘Bouncing Golf, that is targeting Android users in Middle Eastern countries. Threat actors are using a piece of malware detected as GolfSpy, that implements multiple features […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2019
AMCA files for bankruptcy following the recently disclosed security breach

Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, the company that operates healthcare billing services provider AMCA, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to a recent data breach. Retrieval-Masters Creditors Bureau, the company that operates the recovery agency for patient collections American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to a recent security breach that […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2019
Another Remote Code Execution flaw in WebLogic exploited in the wild

Oracle released emergency patches for another critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting WebLogic Server. On Tuesday, Oracle released emergency patches for another critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the WebLogic Server. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2729, affects WebLogic versions 10.3.6.0.0, 12.1.3.0.0 and 12.2.1.3.0. The vulnerability is a remotely exploitable deserialization vulnerability via XMLDecoder in Oracle WebLogic […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2019
Mozilla fixed a Firefox Zero-Day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

Mozilla released security updates for Firefox that addressed a critical zero-day vulnerability exploited in targeted attacks in the wild. Mozilla released security updates for its Firefox web browser that address a critical vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11707, is a type confusion flaw in Array.pop. Mozilla has addressed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2019
Eatstreet, the online food ordering service disclosed a security breach

Eatstreet, the online food ordering service, disclosed a security breach that exposed customer payment card data and details of partners EatStreet, an online and mobile food ordering service, disclosed a security breach that exposed customer payment card data and details of delivery and restaurant partners Attackers breached the company network on May 3 stole data […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2019
Modular Plurox backdoor can spread over local network

Kaspersky experts recently discovered a backdoor dubbed Plurox that can spread itself over a local network and can allow installing additional malware.  Kaspersky experts discovered the Plurox backdoor in February, it can spread itself over a local network and could be used by attackers to install additional malware.  The Plurox backdoor is written in C […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2019
Yana Peel, chief executive of London’s Galleries, resigned after discovery of her links with NSO group

The head of London’s Serpentine Galleries resigned on Tuesday following a Guardian report about her links to the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. On Tuesday, the chief executive of London’s Serpentine Galleries, Yana Peel, resigned following the revelation of the Guardian newspaper about her links to the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group. According to the newspaper, Yana […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2019
Expert found a critical RCE zero-day in TP-Link Wi-Fi Extenders

A zero-day vulnerability affects multiple models of TP-Link Wi-Fi extenders, it could be exploited to remotely execute code. Security expert Grzegorz Wypych from IBM X-Force found a zero-day flaw that affects multiple models of TP-Link Wi-Fi extenders. The Wi-Fi extenders capture the Wi-Fi signal from the main network device and rebroadcast it to areas where […]