Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2018
Are Wi-Fi hotspots in World Cup Russia host cities secure?

Experts at Kaspersky Lab have evaluated the security of 32,000 public Wi-Fi hotspots in the 11 Russian cities hosting the World Cup. The upcoming soccer World Cup represents a privileged target for crooks, hackers, and nation-state actors. It is essential for organizations to take care of any aspect related to the event to protect participants, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2018
It’s not a joke, Owari botnet operators used root as username and password to access a C&C

Security expert Ankit Anubhav discovered a Command and Control server for the Owari botnet protected with weak credentials. An IoT botnet has been commandeered by white hats after its controllers used a weak username and password combination for its command-and-control server. Security expert Ankit Anubhav from Newsky Security discovered an IoT botnet that was controlled by […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2018
HR Software company PageUp victim of a Data Breach, experts fear a domino effect

HR Software Firm PageUp is the last victim of a data breach, the company has 2.6 million active users across over 190 countries. Another day another data breach makes the headlines, this time the victim is the HR Software Firm PageUp. PageUp is an Australian company with 2.6 million active users across over 190 countries. The company […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2018
‘Zip Slip’ arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability affects thousands of projects

Security experts from British software firm Snyk have discovered a critical vulnerability, dubbed ‘Zip Slip’ that affects thousands of projects across many industries. The flaw, that remained hidden for years, could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable systems. The Zip Slip is an arbitrary file overwrite vulnerability that could be triggered […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2018
MyHeritage data breach – 92.3 million user credential exposed

A security researcher discovered email addresses and hashed passwords of roughly 92.3 million Myheritage users stored on a private server outside the company. The huge trove of data was contained in a file named “,” according to the experts the information is authentic and comes from Myheritage. “Today, June 4, 2018 at approximately 1pm EST, MyHeritage’s Chief […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2018
Over 115,000 Drupal Sites still vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2, a gift to crooks

Two months after the release of the security updates for the drupalgeddon2 flaw, experts continue to see vulnerable websites running on flawed versions of Drupal that hasn’t installed security patches. In March, the Drupal developers Jasper Mattsson discovered a “highly critical” vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7600, aka drupalgeddon2, affecting Drupal 7 and 8 versions. Both Drupal 8.3.x and 8.4.x are […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2018
Thousands of organizations leak sensitive data via misconfigured Google Groups

Security experts reported widespread Google Groups misconfiguration exposes sensitive information. Administrators of organizations using Google Groups and G Suite must review their configuration to avoid the leakage of internal information. Security researchers from Kenna Security have recently discovered that 31 percent of 9,600 organizations analyzed is leaking sensitive e-mail information. The list of affected entities also includes […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2018
North Korea-Linked Covellite APT group stopped targeting organizations in the U.S.

A North Korea-linked APT group, tracked by experts at industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos as Covellite, has stopped targeting US organizations. Anyway, the group, that is believed to be linked to the notorious Lazarus APT group, is continuing to target organizations in Europe and East Asia. The group has been around at least since 2017 and is still active, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2018
Imperva’s research shows 75% of open Redis servers are infected

According to the security experts at Imperva firm, three open Redis servers out of four are infected with malware. The discovery is the result of analysis conducted by running Redis-based honeypot servers for some months. Since their initial report on the RedisWannaMine attack that propagates through open Redis and Windows servers, the experts from Imperva have discovered a new […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 165 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! ·      A bug in T-Mobile site allowed anyone see any customers account details ·      […]