This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

iBall Baton iB-WRA150N Unauthenticated Remote DNS Change

!/bin/bash iBall Baton iB-WRA150N Unauthenticated Remote DNS Change Exploit Copyright 2016 c Todor Donev https://www.ethical-hacker.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ethicalhackerorg Description: The vulnerability exist in the web interface, which is accessible without authentication. Once modified,...

25-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to Hacking U.S. Military Satellite Phone System

A British computer hacker who allegedly hacked a United States Department of Defense satellite system in 2014 and accessed the personal information of hundreds of military personnel has pleaded guilty on Thursday. Sean Caffrey, a 25-year-old resident of Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, has...

Ransom Fail: Hackers Leak Thousands of Naked Photos of Plastic Surgery Patients

By Jahanzaib Hassan The Kaunas Lithuania-based Grozio Chirurgija clinics were recently hacked by a group called Tsar Team who leaked thousands of private photos of plastic surgery patients including naked photos of celebrities. What did the photos include? According to authorities, around 25,000...

LinkedIn Hacker, Wanted by US & Russian, Can be Extradited to Either State

The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the Czech police in Prague last October on suspicion of massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, can be extradited to either the United States or Russia, a Czech court ruled on Tuesday. Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, a 29-years-old Russian national, ...

FTC Releases Alert on Identity Theft

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an alert about how quickly criminals begin using your personal information once it is posted to a hacker site by an identity thief. FTC researchers found that it can take as few as 9 minutes for crooks to access stolen personal information posted to...

The SMB vulnerability triggered“bloodshed”, far more than WannaCry-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Preface Since the Shadow Brokers published NSA Elite hacking team Equation Group the use of 0-day vulnerabilities and hacker tools, hacker groups and independent hackers started to exploit these vulnerabilities and tools to initiate various attacks. But industry insiders believe that the 4 month...

Weblate: Password Restriction

Hi Weblate, Hope you all have a good day! Its a minor issue, but hope you'll fix it. It seems like after changing password for example my current password is : mypassword1 And lets assume that the hacker got an access to my account, and me of course will change my password to ex. mypassword2...

Nextcloud: Email Spoofing Vulnerability from nextcloud.

Hi nextcloud, Here is Shaifullah Shaon BlackEyE, An Ethical Hacker. a white hat cyber security researcher from Bangladesh reporting a serious 3'rd ranking in OWASP security vulnerability on your system. There is an Email Spoofing Vulnerability from nextcloud. Steps to reproduce: 1 Go to...

Bell Canada Hacked: Data of 1.9 Million Customers Stolen

While we all were busy in the WannaCry ransomware menace, two separate data breaches have been reported, one in DocuSign, a major provider of electronic signature technology, and another in BELL, Canada’s largest telecommunications company. Canadian mobile phone, TV, and internet service provider...

Pornhub: I am because bug

I'm because I hacker found bug because I report this bug I want to report a bug and because want some $$$$ so please because you are telling me how much you pay money so I give you bug. Me because very poor :' want money because father :' F181917 Thank you wish you because pay lots $$$$$$$$...

Nextcloud: I am because bug

I'm because I hacker found bug because I report this bug I want to report a bug and because want some $$$$ so please because you are telling me how much you pay money so I give you bug. Me because very poor :' want money because father :' F181820 Thank you wish you because pay lots $$$$$$$$...

Paragon Initiative Enterprises: I am because bug

I'm because I hacker found bug because I report this bug I want to report a bug and because want some $$$$ so please because you are telling me how much you pay money so I give you bug. Me because very poor :' want money because father :' F181832 Thank you wish you because pay lots $$$$$$$$...

StringBleed: SNMP Protocol“God mode”vulnerability affects a variety of network devices-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, data from South America, two security researchers discovered that the SNMP（Simple Network Management Protocol the v1 and v2 version of the Protocol the presence of the authorized authentication and access control bypass vulnerability, at least 78 kinds of models of network access and Io...

Hacker leaks 'Orange is the New Black' Season 5 after Netflix refused to Pay Ransom

After releasing 10 back-to-back episodes of the Season 5 premiere of Netflix's "Orange Is the New Black," a hacking group calling itself The Dark Overlord is threatening to leak a trove of other unreleased TV shows and movies. The Dark Overlord TDO posted links to the first 10 episodes of the...

Hajime ‘Vigilante Botnet’ Growing Rapidly; Hijacks 300,000 IoT Devices Worldwide

Last week, we reported about a so-called 'vigilante hacker' who hacked into at least 10,000 vulnerable 'Internet of Things' devices, such as home routers and Internet-connected cameras, using a botnet malware in order to supposedly secure them. Now, that vigilante hacker has already trapped rough...

Atlassian's HipChat Hacked — Users' Data May Have Been Compromised

Atlassian's group chat platform HipChat is notifying its users of a data breach after some unknown hacker or group of hackers broke into one of its servers over the weekend and stole a significant amount of data, including group chat logs. What Happened? According to a security notice published o...

Learn Practical Hacking Online — Get Training For Just $45!

Due to recent highly publicised hacks and high-profile data breaches, certified hackers are in huge demand and being hired by almost all industry to help them keep their networks protected. These ethical hackers not only gain reputation in the IT industry but are also one of the most well-paid...

Nextcloud: Clickjacking In https://demo.nextcloud.com

Hi Nextcloud, Clickjacking In https://demo.nextcloud.com This Is Zeeshan,An Ethical Hacker, I Have Found A Security Issue In Your Site Clickjacking In nextcloud https://demo.nextcloud.com Page Website is vulnerable to clickjacking! Please Fix It As Soon As Possible Best Regards, Zeeshan Waheed...

Record Oracle Patch Update Addresses ShadowBrokers, Struts 2 Vulnerabilities

Oracle released its biggest Critical Patch Update ever on Tuesday, and with it came added urgency in the form of patches for the Solaris vulnerabilities exposed by the ShadowBrokers last week, as well as the recent Apache Struts 2 vulnerability, also under public attack. In all, Oracle admins hav...