Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2019
Online Retailer LightInTheBox exposes unsecured DB containing 1.3TB of web server logs

vpnMentor researchers discovered an unsecured server belonging to the Chinese e-store LightInTheBox.com containing 1.3TB of web server logs. Infosec researchers have uncovered an unsecured Elasticsearch database containing 1.3TB of web server log entries held by Chinese e-commerce website LightInTheBox.com. LightInTheBox is a Chinese online retailer trading on the New York Stock Exchange, most of its […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2019
A study reveals the list of worst passwords of 2019

Another year is ending and this is the right time to discover which are the worst passwords of 2019 by analyzing data leaked in various data breaches. Independent anonymous researchers, compiled and shared with security firm NordPass a list of 200 most popular passwords that were leaked in data breaches during 2019. The company collected […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2019
A thief stole hard drives containing Facebook payroll data from a car

Facebook informed its employees that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. On Friday, Facebook announced that hard drives containing information about its workers’ payroll were stolen from a car last month. According to the company, a thief stole unencrypted hard drives containing banking data belonging to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2019
Schneider Electric fixes DoS flaws in Modicon, EcoStruxure products

Schneider Electric addressed several vulnerabilities in some Modicon controllers and several EcoStruxure products. Schneider Electric addresses three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities Schneider Electric Modicon M580, M340, Quantum and Premium controllers. The vendor has informed its customers that all three flaws are caused by improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions. The three vulnerabilities are: The first […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2019
Experts found binary planting and arbitrary file overwrite flaws in NPM

NPM, the biggest package manager for JavaScript libraries, has addressed a vulnerability that could be exploited to execute “binary planting” attacks. NPM maintainers have addressed a vulnerability that could allow a package publisher to modify and/or gain access to arbitrary files on a user’s system when the package is installed, so-called “binary planting” attacks. The vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2019
Ryuk Ransomware is suspected to be involved in the New Orleans cyberattack

New evidence suggests that in the recent attack against the systems at the City of New Orleans was used the Ryuk ransomware. Over the weekend, New Orleans officials announced in a press conference that the city was hit by a ransomware attack, the incident was discovered in the morning of December 13, 2019. The IT […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2019
From iPhone to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM – exploit ‘Printconfig’ dll with a real-world example

From iPhone to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM – As promised in my previous post, I will show you how to exploit the “Printconfig” dll with a real world example. But what does Apple’s iPhone have to do with it?? Well, keep on reading
 (sorry  no) Some time ago, me and my “business partner”  @padovah4ck, were looking for possible privileged […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2019
Iran announced to have foiled a second cyber-attack in a week

Iran telecommunications minister announced that for the second time in a week Iran has foiled a cyber attack against its infrastructure. Iran has foiled a new cyber-attack, the country’s telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi says. A few days ago, the Iranian telecommunications minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, announced that the Islamic Republic had recently thwarted […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2019
Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack

The largest hospital in New Jersey announced on Friday that a ransomware attack last week disrupted its network and that it paid a ransom. The largest hospital in New Jersey, the Hackensack Meridian Health, was the victim of a ransomware attack last week that disrupted its network, the IT staff decided to pay the ransom […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2019
Rooster Teeth Productions suffered a payment card breach

Rooster Teeth Productions has suffered a data breach that exposed payment card information from shoppers on the company’s online store. The popular production company Rooster Teeth Productions has suffered a data breach, hackers have stolen credit card and other payment data from users that made purchases on the company’s online store. Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC is […]