Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 130 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      Authors of Locky Ransomware are big fans Game of Thrones series ·      Massive HerbaLife spam campaign spreads a variant of Locky ransomware ·      Passwords and much more for 540,000 SVR Tracking accounts […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 129 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      400,000 UK consumers at risk after the Equifax data breach ·      Chrome will label Resources delivered via FTP as Not Secure ·      MAGENTO 2.0.16 and 2.1.9 security update fixes critical flaw in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 128 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·      Crooks leverage Facebook CDN servers to bypass security solutions ·      Mexican tax refund MoneyBack site exposed 400GB of sensitive customer data ·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 127 – News of the week ·      Apache Foundation rejects […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2017
Backdoored Display Widgets Plugin potentially affects 200,000 WordPress installs abusing them to spam content

Around 200,000 WordPress websites using the Display Widgets Plugin were impacted after it was updated to include malicious code. According to security firm Wordfence, roughly 200,000 WordPress websites were impacted after a plugin they were using was updated to include a backdoor. “If you have a plugin called “Display Widgets” on your WordPress website, remove it […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2017
Zerodium is offers $1 Million for Tor Browser Exploits

The company ZERODIUM announced it will pay up to $1 million for fully working zero day exploits for Tor Browser on Tails Linux and Windows OSs. The zero-day broker Zerodium offers $1 million for Tor Browser exploits with the intent to unmask Tor users. The controversial firm will then resell the zero-day exploit for Tor […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2017
Mexican tax refund MoneyBack site exposed 400GB of sensitive customer data

Experts from security firm Kromtech discovered the Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed 400GB of sensitive information. Another huge data leak made the headlines, experts from security firm Kromtech discovered the Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed sensitive customer information online. because of a misconfigured database. Kromtech discovered the unsecured CouchDB during a routine security audit. The Mexican VAT refund […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2017
DragonOK APT is adopting new tactics, techniques and procedures

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks recently observed the DragonOK APT group adopting new tactics, techniques and procedures. China-linked cyber espionage group DragonOK is back, security experts from Palo Alto Networks have uncovered a new campaign leveraging the KHRAT remote access Trojan (RAT). The DragonOk group (also known as NetTraveler (TravNet), PlugX, Saker, Netbot, DarkStRat, and ZeroT i) was first spotted September […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2017
Expert discovered 2,893 Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet

The popular Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers has discovered thousands of Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet. The popular security researcher Victor Gevers, the founder of the GDI Foundation, has discovered 2,893 Bitcoin miners left exposed on the Internet. I see about 2,893 Chinese Bitcoin "Thunder mining machines" online which are accessible via telnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 125 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. ·      Hackers can completely hijack a mobile device via replacement of a touchscreen ·      Learning About ISIS Intentions Using Open Source Intelligence ·      Security Affairs newsletter Round 124 – News of the week ·      Enigma platform hacked, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2017
Enigma platform hacked, hackers stole over $470,000 worth of Ethereum

Enigma platform hacked – Another cyber heist made the headlines, this time an unknown hacker has stolen more than $471,000 worth of Ethereum cryptocurrency. The hacker has stolen it from the cryptocurrency investment platform, Enigma. According to an announcement made on Enigma website, an “unknown entity” has hacked their website, slack accounts and email newsletter accounts. “WARNING: ENIGMA SLACK […]