Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2018
What Type Of Technology Does North Korea Have? How Did The Country Begin Using Hackers? How Do Hacking Efforts Comply with the Political Situation? North Korea is not known for technological sophistication. The country does not have any global technological franchises, such as Apple or Samsung, and its citizens continue to have limited access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · GandCrab, a new ransomware-as-a-service emerges from Russian crime underground · More than 1 million worth of ETH stolen from Bee Token ICO Participants with phishing emails · Security Affairs newsletter Round 148 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
Security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave conducted a one-year-study on the firmware running on Netgear routers and discovered vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. Netgear has just released many security updates that address vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. The vulnerabilities have been reported by security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave, which conducted a […]
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 […]
