Announcements

Criminals Set Up Fake Companies to Hijack and Sell IPv4 Addresses

  • 24th June 2016
Speaking at the North American Network Operators Group’s NANOG 67 conference, Leslie Noble, Senior Director of Global Registry Knowledge at the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), revealed the lengths to which crooks go to get their hands on brand new IPv4 addresses.Last September, ARIN announced it depleted its IPv4 address pool, ...
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Information Stealer "Fareit" Abuses PowerShell

  • 28th April 2016
Researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new variant of the Fareit malware being delivered to victims using Windows PowerShell. Fareit, also known as Pony Loader, is an information stealer malware family that has been making rounds since 2011. It recently joined the long list of threats that abuse the Windows PowerShell task automation and ...
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Botnet of Aethra Routers Used for Brute-Forcing WordPress Sites

  • 23rd December 2015
Italian security researchers from VoidSec have come across a botnet structure that was using vulnerable Aethra Internet routers and modems to launch brute-force attacks on WordPress websites. This particular incident was uncovered after one of the VoidSec researchers was sifting through his WordPress log file and found a brute-force ...
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Joomla 3.4.5 Released Fixing a Serious SQL Injection Vulnerability

  • 27th October 2015
The Joomla team just released a new Joomla version (3.4.5) to fix some serious security vulnerabilities. The most critical one is a remote and unauthenticated SQL injection on the com_contenthistory module (included by default) that allows for a full take over of the vulnerable site.Being proactive in the protection of your site is of ...
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