WordPress version 5.0.1 addressed several vulnerabilities

This week, the WordPress development team released on Thursday the version 5.0.1 of the popular CMS, that addresses several flaws. The Researcher Tim Coen discovered several cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the CMS. One of the flaws...

December 14, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  Breaking News  Hacking  Security 

New Sofacy campaign aims at Government agencies across the world

Security experts at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a new espionage campaign carried out by Russia-Linked APT group Sofacy. Russian Cyber espionage group Sofacy (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium)) carried...

December 14, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  APT  Breaking News  Cyber warfare  Hacking 

French foreign ministry announced its Travel Alert Registry Hack

The French foreign ministry announced today that its travel alert registry website had been hacked and personal data of citizens "could be misused". The French foreign ministry confirmed tha hackers breached into the Ariane system, its travel...

December 13, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  Breaking News  Hacking 

Operation Sharpshooter targets critical infrastructure and global defense

McAfee uncovered a campaign tracked as Operation Sharpshooter that hit at least 87 organizations in global defense and critical infrastructure. Security experts at McAfee uncovered a hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Sharpshooter, aimed at infrastructure...

December 13, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  APT  Breaking News  Cyber warfare  Hacking  Malware 

ID Numbers for 120 Million Brazilians taxpayers exposed online

InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification numbers for 120 million Brazilian taxpayers In March 2018, security experts at InfoArmor discovered a misconfigured server online that contained taxpayer identification...

December 13, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  Breaking News  Data Breach 

A new variant of Shamoon was uploaded to Virus Total while Saipem was under attack

A new variant of the Shamoon malware, aka DistTrack, was uploaded to VirusTotal from Italy this week, but experts haven’t linked it to a specific attack yet. Shamoon was first observed in 2012 when it infected and wiped more than 30,000 systems...

December 12, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  Breaking News  Hacking 

Cyber attack hit the Italian oil and gas services company Saipem

Some of the servers of the Italian oil and gas services company Saipem were hit by a cyber attack early this week.  Saipem has customers in more than 60 countries, including Saudi Arabian oil and gas giant Saudi Aramco. It could be considered a strategic...

December 12, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  Breaking News  Hacking 

New threat actor SandCat exploited recently patched CVE-2018-8611 0day

Experts from Kaspersky Lab reported that that the recently patched Windows kernel zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2018-8611) has been exploited by several threat actors. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for December 2018 address nearly 40 flaws, including...

December 12, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  Breaking News  Hacking 

Novidade, a new Exploit Kit is targeting SOHO Routers

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new exploit kit, dubbed Novidade (“novelty” in Portuguese), that is targeting SOHO routers to compromise the devices connected to the network equipment. The Novidade exploit kit leverages cross-site...

December 12, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  Breaking News  Cyber Crime  Hacking 

Group-IB identifies leaked credentials of 40,000 users of government websites in 30 countries

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has detected more than 40 000 compromised user credentials of online government services in 30 countries around the world. Most of the victims were in Italy (52%),...

December 11, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini   Posted In  Breaking News  Cyber Crime  Hacking 


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