Security researcher Max Justicz has discovered several flaws in the distribution Alpine Linux, including an arbitrary code execution. Alpine Linux is an independent, non-commercial, general purpose Linux distribution that is heavily used in containers, including Docker. Alpine Linux is based on musl libc and busybox, it is a tiny distro and is optimized to manage resources, it […]
One year after the discovery of the BlueBorne Bluetooth vulnerabilities more than 2 billion devices are still vulnerable to attacks. In September 2017, experts with Armis Labs devised a new attack technique, dubbed BlueBorne, aimed at mobile, desktop and IoT devices that use Bluetooth. The BlueBorne attack exposes devices to a new remote attack, even without […]
Experts at the Google Android team have discovered high severity privilege escalation vulnerability in some of Honeywell Android-based handheld computers. Security experts from the Google Android team have discovered a high severity privilege escalation vulnerability in some of Honeywell Android-based handheld computers that could be exploited by an attacker to gain elevated privileges. According to the vendor, Honeywell handheld computers […]
The gambling application EOSBet was affected by a vulnerability in its smart contract system that has been exploited by attackers to steal $200,000 worth of EOS. The security breach was first reported by the member “thbourlove” of the EOSBet Reddit community that shared the code used to exploit the flaw. After seeing the exploit code, the EOSBet’s official Reddit account […]
The Bristol Airport was hit by a cyber attack that caused problems with operations, flight display screens were taken offline for two days. The Bristol Airport was hit by a ransomware-based attack that caused problems to the flight display screens for two entire days. The news reported by the BBC and was confirmed by an […]
MageCart cyber gang compromised the cloud service firm Feedify and stole payment card data from customers of hundreds of e-commerce sites. MageCart crime gang appears very active in this period, payment card data from customers of hundreds of e-commerce websites may have been stolen due to the compromise of the cloud service firm Feedify. Cloud service firm Feedify has […]
Security experts disclosed a locally exploitable kernel-level vulnerability in the Webroot SecureAnywhere macOS security software. The Webroot SecureAnywhere macOS security software was affected by a locally exploitable kernel-level vulnerability. An attacker that exploit the flaw could execute malware at the “kernel level” on a vulnerable Mac system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-16962, was patched months ago but publicly disclosed […]
Dutch intelligence services arrested two alleged Russian spies that were planning to hack a Swiss laboratory where is ongoing an investigation on the poisoning of the spy Sergei Skripal. According to Dutch-based NRC newspaper and Swiss daily Tages-Anzeiger, Dutch intelligence services arrested two alleged Russian spies working for Russia’s GRU military intelligence service on suspicion of planning to […]
Recently researchers from FireEye uncovered and blocked a campaign powered by the Chinese APT10 cyber espionage group aimed at Japanese media sector In July, security researchers from FireEye uncovered and blocked a campaign carried out by Chinese APT10 group (aka Menupass, and Stone Panda) aimed at Japanese media sector. Experts noticed the group since around […]
Operator at kayo.moe found a 42M Record Credential Stuffing Data containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card info. A huge archive containing email addresses, plain text passwords, and partial credit card data has been found on a free anonymous hosting service, Kayo.moe. The operator of the service shared the file with the popular expert Troy Hunt […]