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Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2021
WeChat users targeted by hackers using recently disclosed Chromium exploit

Threat actors used the Chrome exploit publicly disclosed last week in attacks aimed at WeChat users in China, researchers warn. China-based firm Qingteng Cloud Security, reported that threat actors weaponized the recently disclosed Chrome exploit to target WeChat users in China. According to the researchers, the attacks only targeted users of the WeChat Windows app. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2020
Thousands of Magento stores hacked in a few days in largest-ever skimming campaign

Thousands of Magento online stores have been hacked over the past few days as part of the largest ever skimming campaign. Security experts from cybersecurity firm Sansec reported that nearly 2,000 Magento online stores have been hacked over the past few days as part of the largest ever Magecart-style campaign. Most of the hacked sites […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2017
Hacker found a way to hack Facebook by exploiting the ImageMagick flaw

The bug hunter Andrew Leonov has described how to exploit an ImageMagick flaw to remotely execute code on a Facebook server. The hacker Andrew Leonov (@4lemon) has described how to exploit the so-called ImageMagick vulnerability to remotely execute code on a Facebook server. The ImageMagick flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-3714, affects the popular image manipulation software, ImageMagick. The flaw could […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2016
The ImageMagick flaw is being exploited in the wild

The recently discovered ImageMagick critical vulnerability (CVE-2016-3714) is being exploited in the wild for reconnaissance. The security researcher John Graham-Cumming from CloudFlare asserts that his firm recently discovered a critical vulnerability, code named CVE-2016-3714, in the popular image manipulation software, ImageMagick. The flaw could be exploited by hackers to take over websites running the widely used […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2015
An Italian expert discovered two zero-day flaws in MAC OS X

An Italian security researcher has discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple MAC OS X that could be exploited to gain remote access to a PC. An Italian teenager, Luca Todesco, has found a couple of critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple OS X operating system that could be exploited to gain remote access to a PC. The […]