Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2019
Adobe Patches two critical vulnerabilities in ColdFusion

Adobe released security updates to address three severe vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion web application development platform Adobe released ColdFusion 2016 Update 12 and ColdFusion 2018 Update 5 to address three severe vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion web application development platform, two of them have been rated as “critical.” “Adobe has released security updates for ColdFusion versions […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2019
Hacker discloses details and PoC exploit code for unpatched 0Day in vBulletin

An anonymous hacker disclosed technical details and proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical zero-day remote code execution flaw in vBulletin. vBulletin is one of the most popular forum software, for this reason, the disclosure of a zero-day flaw affecting it could impact a wide audience. More than 100,000 websites online run on top of vBulletin. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2019
APT or not APT? What’s Behind the Aggah Campaign

Researchers at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab discovered an interesting drop chain associated with the well-known Aggah campaign. Introduction During our threat monitoring activities, we discovered an interesting drop chain related to the well-known Aggah campaign, the ambiguous infection chain observed by Unit42 which seemed to deliver payloads potentially associated with the Gorgon Group APT. After that, we discovered other malicious activities […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2019
Portuguese hacker faces hundreds of Charges in Football Leaks case

An alleged Portuguese hacker faces 154 charges connected with the publication of internal documents in the Football Leaks case. An alleged Portuguese hacker, Rui Pinto, faces 154 charges connected with the publication of internal documents of top European clubs and soccer officials in the Football Leaks case. The attorney general’s office confirmed last week that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2019
Thinkful forces a password reset for all users after a data breach

The online education platform for developers Thinkful suffered a security breach and is notifying the incident to its customers requiring them to reset their passwords. The online education platform for developers Thinkful has suffered a data breach, just a few days after it has announced it would be acquired by the education tech firm Chegg for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2019
Critical flaws affect Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center

Atlassian released security updates for Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center to address a critical flaw that can lead to information disclosure Atlassian released security updates to address critical vulnerabilities in Jira Service Desk and Jira Service Desk Data Center. One of the flaw can lead to information disclosure, while another critical […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2019
Iran denies successful cyber attacks hit infrastructures of its oil sector

In the last hours, some western media reported destructive cyber attacks against infrastructures in the Iranian oil sector, but Iran denied it. Last week drone attacks have hit two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, one of them is the Abqaiq site. Western Governments and Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2019
5 Cybersecurity Trends in the Professional Services Sector

Cybersecurity is an increasingly significant focus for many companies as cyberattacks become more frequent and more costly. Which are 5 Cybersecurity trends in the professional services sector? Professional services organizations are especially vulnerable due to the high value of the industry and the data they store — like Social Security numbers, personal financial information and classified […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2019
Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams

There is the same group behind the hack of the celebrity Instagram accounts, attackers used the same attack pattern to push scams. The same threat actor continues to target celebrity Instagram accounts to push scam sites to their wide audience. Recently the Instagram account of the popular actor Robert Downey Jr. (43.3M followers) has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2019
Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites

Trend Micro researchers reported that a Magecart group has hacked the websites of two hotel chains to inject scripts targeting Android and iOS users. Researchers discovered a series of incidents involving software credit card skimmer used by Magecart to hit the booking websites of hotel chains. In early September, the researchers discovered a JavaScript code onto two […]