MagentoCore: the Most Aggressive Skimmer Infects 60 Stores per Day

Security researcher Willem de Groot recently unearthed the most successful (so far) skimming campaign, at the center of which is the MagentoCore skimmer. The skimmer has already infected 7,339 Magento stores in the last 6 months, thus becoming the most… Continue reading MagentoCore: the Most Aggressive Skimmer Infects 60 Stores per Day

Botnet Activity in 2018 Shows Increased Distribution of RATs

Recent analysis by Kaspersky Lab researchers indicates that threat actors are increasingly distributing multipurpose malware, which can be deployed in a variety of attack scenarios. More than 150 Malware Families Analyzed The team analyzed more than 15… Continue reading Botnet Activity in 2018 Shows Increased Distribution of RATs

CVE-2018-14619: New Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability

A new Linux kernel vulnerability identified as CVE-2018-14619 has been discovered by Red Hat Engineering researchers Florian Weimer and Ondrej Mosnacek. More particularly, the flaw was found in the crypto subsystem of the Linux kernel. CVE-2018-14619 T… Continue reading CVE-2018-14619: New Critical Linux Kernel Vulnerability

Facebook Server RCE Vulnerability Disclosed

A researcher, Daniel Le Gall, has uncovered a serious vulnerability in one of Facebook’s servers. The researcher found a Sentry service hosted on 199.201.65.36 with the hostname sentryagreements.thefacebook.com, while scanning an IP range that be… Continue reading Facebook Server RCE Vulnerability Disclosed

Misfortune Cookie CVE-2014-9222 Flaw Back in Medical Devices

CVE-2014-9222, more famously known as the Misfortune Cookie vulnerability, is a severe security flaw that was disclosed four years ago when it was impacting routers. Reports reveal that the vulnerability is once again active in the wild. This time atta… Continue reading Misfortune Cookie CVE-2014-9222 Flaw Back in Medical Devices

Air Canada Mobile App Data Breach: Passport Details Affected

A serious data breach affecting Air Canada has been announced. The company’s mobile app has been affected, and as a result, its 1.7 million users are now forced to change their passwords. Despite this precaution, the number of affected customers…. Continue reading Air Canada Mobile App Data Breach: Passport Details Affected

Verified Microkernel: the Cure for All Linux OS Vulnerabilities?

According to security researchers, Linux vulnerabilities could be entirely mitigated or “decreased” to “less-than-critical” severity via an OS design which is based on a verified microkernel. To prove their point, a group of aca… Continue reading Verified Microkernel: the Cure for All Linux OS Vulnerabilities?

WhatsApp Data Not Encrypted When Stored in Google Drive

To the attention of WhatsApp users – the company has made an important announcement regarding WhatsApp’s backups. It appears that they will no longer count towards the Google Drive storage quota. In addition, WhatsApp backups that haven&#82… Continue reading WhatsApp Data Not Encrypted When Stored in Google Drive

Bank of Spain Hit by a DDoS Attack, No Evidence of Data Breach

Bank of Spain was hit by a DDoS attack as a result of which the bank’s website was offline on Monday (August 27). According to the bank’s statement, the attack didn’t have any impact on its operations. Also, communications with…Read… Continue reading Bank of Spain Hit by a DDoS Attack, No Evidence of Data Breach

Smart Lights, Dark Purposes: Connected Lights Can Exfiltrate Your Data

Nowadays, there’s hardly anything that cannot be hacked. Our lives are more vulnerable than they have ever been, and this is mostly due to the smart devices we are using. We won’t be going further into detail about the paradox…Read more
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