Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2017
ShadowBrokers are back demanding nearly $4m and offering 2 dumps per month

The dreaded hacking group ShadowBrokers posted a new message, promising to deliver two data dumps a month as part its monthly dumps. The notorious group ShadowBrokers is back with announcing new interesting changes to their Dump Service. The hackers published a new message on the Steemit platform announcing new changed to their service. “Missing theshadowbrokers? If someone […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2017
Another unsecured AWS S3 bucket exposed 4 million Time Warner Cable subscriber records

Experts reported that the AWS S3 storage containing subscriber data was left open by freelancers who handled web applications for the Time Warner Cable. A few days ago, researchers discovered of thousands of resumes of US Military and intel contractors left unsecured on an Amazon server, now roughly four million Time Warner Cable customers in the US were […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2017
Struts CVE-2017-9805 RCE flaw could be exploited to take over vulnerable servers

Critical vulnerability CVE-2017-9805 in Apache Struts could be exploited by attackers to take over affected web servers. Security researchers at LGTM (lgtm.com) have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Apache Struts that could be exploited by a remote attacker to run malicious code on the vulnerable servers. “Security researchers at lgtm.com have discovered a critical […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2017
Other 26,000 MongoDB servers hit in a new wave of ransom attacks

Security researchers Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers confirmed other 26,000 MongoDB servers were hit in a new wave of ransom attacks. Ransom attacks on MongoDB databases revamped over the weekend after an apparent pause. According to the security researchers Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers, three new groups appeared on the threat landscape and hijacked over 26,000 servers, one of them, in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2017
Taringa Data Breach, over 28 Million users affected

The data breach notification website LeakBase reported to the colleagues at THN the Taringa data breach, over 28 Million users’ data exposed. Taringa, also known as ‘The Latin American Reddit’, is a popular social network used by netizens in Latin America to create and share thousands of posts every day on general interest topics. The data breach notification […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2017
CynoSure Prime ‘cracktivists’ exposed 320 Million hashed passwords

The anonymous CynoSure Prime ‘cracktivists” reversed 320 million hashed passwords dumped to the popular researcher Troy Hunt. The anonymous CynoSure Prime ‘cracktivists” is back and reversed 320 million hashed passwords dumped to the popular researcher Troy Hunt. Two years ago the CynoSure Prime group reversed hashes of 11 million leaked Ashley Madison passwords. The hashed passwords were protected by […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2017
Google removed almost 300 Android apps involved in DDoS attack

Google removed almost 300 Android apps from the official Play Store after expert at ESET reported they were abused for a DDoS attack. This week Google has removed at least 300 apps from the Official Play Store after learning that apps were being hijacked to power DDoS attacks. “We identified approximately 300 apps associated with […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2017
US Government website was hosting a JavaScript downloader delivering Cerber ransomware

Security experts discovered last week that a US government website was hosting a JavaScript downloader used to deliver the Cerber ransomware. The security researcher at NewSky Security Ankit Anubhav discovered last week that a US government website was hosting a malicious JavaScript downloader that was delivering the dreaded Cerber ransomware. #Javascript #malware using #powershell hosted […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2017
6 Million Celebrities Instagram High-Profiles Data available for sale on DoxaGram

Doxagram website claims to be selling the email addresses and phone numbers of 6M High-Profiles Instagram accounts ranging from POTUS to Taylor Swift. The story began with the hack of the Selena Gomez Instagram account, a hacker hijacked it and published three nude photos of Justin Bieber. A few days later, it was reported a vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2017
A code execution flaw in LabVIEW will remain unpatched

Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a code execution issue in LabVIEW software that will remain unpatched. Security researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a code execution vulnerability in National Instruments LabVIEW system design and development platform. The LabVIEW engineering software is widely adopted for applications that require test, measurement, and control. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-2779, could be […]