The announcement about the Yahoo data breach is online, the company confirmed that hackers managed to access data from at least 500 million user accounts. Today I wrote about the imminent announce of the Yahoo data breach related to an incident that resulted in the leakage of 200 million Yahoo account credentials this summer. The company has finally […]
Mozilla plans to fix the cross-platform RCE flaw that threatened Tor anonymity. The flaw affects certificate pinning protections implemented by Mozilla. Mozilla plans to release a Firefox update to address the cross-platform remote code-execution vulnerability recently patched in the Tor browser. The tor is inviting its users to install the security update urgently, and Mozilla follows close […]
Cisco has released several Security Updates to fix many vulnerabilities in its products, including a nasty RCE in WebEx Meetings servers. Cisco has issued a patch to address the remote code execution flaw (CVE-2016-1482) that affects company WebEx Meetings servers. The remote code execution flaw (CVE-2016-1482) could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands […]
A new batch of Colin Powell’s emails was leaked online by Russian hackers. Powel criticized both Presidential candidates, Trump and Clinton. Powell’s emails sent in a couple of years have been published on the website DC Leaks in a section protected by a password that was available only to select news outlets. The Powell’s e-mails belong to a […]
Every collective has its tactics and tools, Today I’ll present you Anonandmore, a hacker that is very active online. Enjoy the Interview. You are a talented hacker that is very active online, could you tell me more about you. Could you tell me which his your technical background and when you started hacking? I started […]
The researcher MalwareMustDie discovered LuaBot, a trojan completely coded in Lua language that is targeting Linux platforms to recruit them in DDoS botnet. Let’s continue our tour in Linux security, focusing on malicious code specifically designed to target such systems. The popular security researcher MalwareMustDie, who recently reported the new ELF trojan backdoorLinux/Mirai, also discovered a […]
Today I have the pleasure to share with you the interview with Francisco Moraga, a popular cyber security expert also known as @BTshell . Enjoy it! You are one of the most respected experts on cyber security. Could you tell me which his your technical background and when you started hacking? My name is Francisco Moraga, […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Global cost of cybercrime will grow from $3 trillion in 2015 to $6 trillion annually by […]
The Dutch Police has seized two servers belonging to Switzerland-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider Perfect Privacy, as part of an investigation. Recently, two European countries, France and Germany, have declared war against encryption with an objective to force major technology companies to build encryption backdoors in their secure messaging services. The fight to the cybercrime is […]
Experts from Fortinet discovered a Russian website called Fake-Game the offers a Phishing-as-a-Service platform to anyone. The Phishing attacks are still one of the most effective methods to grab users’ credentials on the web. Experts from Fortinet have discovered a Russian-language site called ‘Fake-Game’ that offers Phishing-as-a-Service. “During our monitoring, we discovered that this same business model is […]