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Amey suffers cyber attack from ransomware 4 min read

Amey suffers cyber attack from ransomware

Ax Sharma January 1, 2021
UK's prominent infrastructure management company Amey has been hit by Mount Locker ransomware group in what the company has called a "complex" cyber attack.... Read More
Backdoor master password for thousands of Zyxel firewalls revealed 3 min read

Backdoor master password for thousands of Zyxel firewalls revealed

Ax Sharma January 1, 2021
Thousands of Zyxel firewalls and access point controllers contain a secret, undocumented hardcoded password giving anyone admin access through this zero-day.... Read More
New Golang malware runs Monero miner on servers 2 min read

New Golang malware runs Monero miner on servers

Ax Sharma December 31, 2020
The Golang malware breaches Windows, Linux servers and exploits popular vulnerabilities such as a critical RCE in Oracle WebLogic. ... Read More
Kaggle fixes vulnerability that disclosed private leaderboard data via API 3 min read

Kaggle fixes vulnerability that disclosed private leaderboard data via API

Ax Sharma December 30, 2020
Kaggle, an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners had been exposing private competition data due to a misconfigured API. This could potentially give an unfair competitive advantage to participants.... Read More
Hacker selling Vodafone’s Ho Mobile database of 2.5M users 3 min read

Hacker selling Vodafone’s Ho Mobile database of 2.5M users

Ax Sharma December 29, 2020
The database contains ICCID that can be used in SIM swapping attacks. Other information in the leaked dump includes mobile number, customer PII, SIM PUK, IMSI and security hashes.... Read More
joomla logo Joomla fixes ACL violation vulnerability after 2 years 2 min read

Joomla fixes ACL violation vulnerability after 2 years

Ax Sharma December 29, 2020
Joomla! CMS project has fixed an access control violation flaw, CVE-2020-35616 nearly after 2 years of its reporting.... Read More
Google ‘Send Feedback’ bug could expose your sensitive data to attackers 3 min read

Google ‘Send Feedback’ bug could expose your sensitive data to attackers

Ax Sharma December 28, 2020
Google Docs "Send Feedback" feature vulnerability which could expose your sensitive files to attackers earns researcher a $3,134 bounty.... Read More
Word malware uses GitHub and Imgur pic to run Cobalt Strike script 1 min read

Word malware uses GitHub and Imgur pic to run Cobalt Strike script

Ax Sharma December 28, 2020
A new strand of malware uses Word files with macros to download a PowerShell script from GitHub. This PowerShell script further downloads a legitimate image file from... Read More
UK energy supplier E.ON erroneously takes out Direct Debit payments early 2 min read

UK energy supplier E.ON erroneously takes out Direct Debit payments early

Ax Sharma December 27, 2020
UK energy provider E.ON has apologised for mistakenly debiting customer bank accounts earlier than expected for their energy bill payments.... Read More
Insecure QR codes on COVID-19 test results come with data exposure risks 4 min read

Insecure QR codes on COVID-19 test results come with data exposure risks

Ax Sharma December 26, 2020
Medical labs appointed by governments to test incoming international passengers for COVID-19 contain insecure QR code implementations that may lead to data exposure.... Read More

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