Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2019
Security experts at Rapid7 have discovered that over 2 million Apache HTTP servers are still affected by the CVE-2019-0211 critical privilege escalation flaw. An important privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211) affecting the Apache HTTP server could be exploited by users with the right to write and run scripts to gain root on Unix systems via scoreboard […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2019
NSA released the complete source code for its GHIDRA suite, the version 9.0.2 is available on the Agency’s Github repository. In January 2019, the National Security Agency (NSA) announced the release at the RSA Conference of the free reverse engineering framework GHIDRA. GHIDRA is a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that runs on major OSs (Windows, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2019
Security experts at Trend Micro spotted a new variant of the XLoader Trojan that is targeting Android devices by posing as a security application. Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the XLoader Trojan that is targeting Android devices by posing as a security application, the malware also attempts to infect Apple devices (iPhones and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2019
The huge trove of Facebook user data was amassed and stored online on unprotected cloud servers by third-party Facebook app developers. Definitively I can tell you that this is an awful period for Facebook and its users. We first read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2019
Crime without punishment: Group-IB issues a new report on JS-sniffers that infected 2440 websites around the world Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has issued a new comprehensive report on the analysis of JavaScript-sniffers – a type of malware designed to steal customer payment data from online stores. 2440 infected ecommerce websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2019
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announced to have suffered a security breach, “an unknown outside entity” had access to data of up to 1.3 million people. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) suffered a security breach, on Tuesday it revealed that “an unknown outside entity” had gained unauthorized access to a database […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2019
Security experts at Zscaler discovered that threat actors are using hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites to store and deliver malicious payloads. Crooks are utilizing hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites running WordPress and Joomla websites to store and serve malicious payloads. Hacked websites were used for several malicious purposes, experts observed compromised WordPress and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2019
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Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2019
The privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211) affecting the Apache HTTP server could be exploited by users with the right to write and run scripts to gain root on Unix systems An important privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2019-0211) affecting the Apache HTTP server could be exploited by users with the right to write and run scripts to gain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2019
Security expert discovered thousands of unsafe Kibana instances that are exposed online, the news was first reported by colleagues at THN. Kibana is an open source data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch. It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster. Users can create bar, line and scatter plots, or pie charts and […]
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