Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Attackers behind Cloudflare_solutions Keylogger are back, 2000 WordPress sites already infected · Download URLs for two packages of the phpBB forum software were compromised · Iran-linked APT OilRig target IIS Web Servers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · A hospital victim of a new SamSam Ransomware campaign paid $55,000 ransom · OnePlus admitted hackers stole credit card information belonging to up to 40,000 customers · Researchers found misconfigured Jenkins servers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2018
Security experts from PaloAlto Networks uncovered a large-scale crypto-currency mining operation that involved around 30 million systems worldwide. Security experts from PaloAlto Networks have uncovered a large-scale crypto-currency mining operation active for over 4 months. Experts believe the activity involved around 30 million systems worldwide to mine the Monero cryptocurrency using the open-source XMRig utility. The threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2018
WordPress plugins and themes vulnerabilities statistics for 2017. The statistics were derived from our up-to-date WordPress Vulnerabilities Database. We are monitoring a large number of sources to add new vulnerabilities to the database on a daily basis. The year in figures We added 221 vulnerabilities to our database. The total number of vulnerabilities decreased by 69%. During […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2018
Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 3) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. The week started with the discovery of a new variant of the dreaded Mirai Botnet dubbed Okiru, for the first time a malware targets ARC based IoT devices, billions of IoT devices are potentially at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Fappening – A fourth man has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities · Lenovo spotted and fixed a backdoor in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switches […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2018
Security researchers at Check Point have spotted a malware family dubbed RubyMiner that is targeting web servers worldwide in an attempt to exploit their resources to mine Monero cryptocurrency. RubyMiner, was first spotted last week when a massive campaign targeted web servers worldwide, most of them in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Following recent mass demonstration, Iran Infy group may attempt to target protesters and their foreign contacts · Security Affairs newsletter Round 144 – News of the week · Spear phishing attacks already […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2018
A group of researchers discovered marketing companies have started exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in browsers’ built-in password managers to track visitors. A group of researchers from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has discovered that at least two marketing companies, AdThink and OnAudience, that are exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in major browsers to track visitors. The researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Experts from Bleeping Computer spotted a new Cryptomix Ransomware variant · Facebooks photo tagging system now looks for users in photos theyre not tagged in · Financially motivated attacks reveal the interests […]
