Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2016
Hacking Ubuntu Linux distro exploiting the CrashDB code injection issue

The exploitation of the CrashDB code injection issue could allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on machines running Ubuntu Linux distro. New problems for Ubuntu Linux distribution, the security expert Donncha O’Cearbhaill discovered a critical vulnerability that could be exploited by a remote attacker to compromise a target computer using a malicious file. The vulnerability, a […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2016
Cryptolulz666 continues targeting Government websites with DDoS

 Cryptolulz666 is back targeting government websites to demonstrate that it is very simple for hackers to bring down them with DDoS attacks. A few days ago a reported the attack conducted by the black hat hacker Cryptolulz ( @Cryptolulz666), a former member of the Powerful Greek Army, who hacked the website of Russian embassy of Armenia (www.embassyru.am). […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2016
PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM APTs used same Zero-Day to Target Turkish citizens

Microsoft discovered two distinct APT groups, PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM, that exploited the same Flash Player zero-day flaw on same targets. Security researchers have discovered two distinct APT groups, PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM, that exploited the same Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4117) in cyber espionage campaigns on Turkish citizens living in Turkey and various other European countries. Both […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2016
More than 8,800 WordPress Plugins out of 44,705 are flawed

Security firm RIPS Technologies has analyzed 44,705 in the official WordPress plugins directory and discovered that more than 8,800 of them are flawed. Experts from the security company RIPS Technologies have conducted an interesting analysis of WordPress plugins. The researchers have analyzed 44,705 of the roughly 48,000 plugins available in the official WordPress plugins. “To do […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2016
The Shadow Brokers are offering the NSA arsenal for direct sale

The Shadow Brokers group has changed the model of sale, it has put up the NSA’s hacking arsenal for direct sale on an underground website. The Shadow Brokers – Summary of the events We have seen the notorious hacker group at the end of October, when the hackers leaked a fresh dump containing a list of servers that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2016
BlackEnergy hackers, now TeleBots, target Ukrainian banks

The BlackEnergy hacker group that targeted the Ukrainian grid one year ago, now identified as TeleBots, are targeting Ukrainian banks. The BlackEnergy hacker group that targeted the Ukrainian grid one year ago causing a power outage in the country are now targeting Ukrainian banks. The Ukrainian government accused Russia of being involved in the attack, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2016
Phishing campaign on Office 365 Business users leverages Punycode

Security researchers discovered a new phishing campaign leveraging Punycode and a bug in Office 365 defense systems to deceive victims. Office 365 business email users continue to be the target of phishing campaigns, a new wave of attacks was leveraging Punycode to avoid detection of Microsoft’s default security and desktop email filters. Punycode is a method added […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2016
Yahoo admits one billion accounts exposed in a newly discovered data breach

The tech giant Yahoo admitted crooks have probably stolen details from more than a billion user accounts, and the incident is not linked to previous ones. Bad news for Yahoo!, the company admitted crooks have probably stolen details from more than a billion user accounts. In 2013, hackers broke into the systems of Yahoo and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2016
Cryptolulz hacked the website of the Russian embassy of Armenia

The black hat hacker Cryptolulz broke into the database of the website of Russian embassy of Armenia (www.embassyru.am) and leaked data. The black hat hacker Cryptolulz, a former member of the Powerful Greek Army, hacked the website of Russian embassy of Armenia (www.embassyru.am). “I would like to tell you that I have successfully penetrated the site” […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2016
Experts spotted a Skype backdoor for Mac, it could be a coding bug

Experts from Trustwave discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the Mac version of Skype, experts classified it as a Skype backdoor. Security experts from Trustwave have discovered a backdoor in the Mac version of Skype. The flaw, aAn authentication bypass vulnerability, affects the Desktop API that could be used by third-party apps to implement a Skype communication. […]