Security News

Viacom Left Sensitive Data And Secret Access Key On Unsecured Amazon Server
2017-09-20 00:39

Viacom—the popular entertainment and media company that owns Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central, MTV, and hundreds of other properties—has exposed the keys to its kingdom on an unsecured Amazon S3...

CCleaner Server Was Compromised in Early July
2017-09-19 10:58

A server distributing a version of PC utility CCleaner infected with malware might have been compromised in early July, Avast revealed. read more

2017-09-14 20:52

Security researchers have discovered over 4,000 Elasticsearch servers compromised to distribute and control PoS malware. 99 percent of them are hosted by Amazon. What is Elasticsearch?...

Thousands of Elasticsearch Servers Hijacked to Host PoS Malware
2017-09-13 19:51

Over 4,000 insecure Elasticsearch servers have been hosting the point-of-sale malware Alina and JackPoS.

Apache Struts Flaw Increasingly Exploited to Hack Servers
2017-09-12 09:04

Security firm Imperva has detected thousands of attacks attempting to exploit a recently patched remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Apache Struts 2 open source development...

Critical Flaw in Apache Struts2 Lets Hackers Take Over Web Servers (The Hackers News)
2017-09-05 11:40

Security researchers have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the popular Apache Struts web application framework, allowing a remote attacker to run malicious code on the...

700 Million Records Found on Server Powering Onliner Spambot (Security Week)
2017-08-31 16:59

A Paris-based malware researcher known as Benkow has discovered more than 700 million records used by the Onliner spambot on a misconfigured server. The records comprise a large number of email...

Over 711 Million Email Addresses Exposed From SpamBot Server (The Hackers News)
2017-08-30 01:25

A massive database of 630 million email addresses used by a spambot to send large amounts of spam to has been published online in what appears to be one of the biggest data dumps of its kind. A...

Backdoor Found in Popular Server Management Software used by Hundreds of Companies (The Hackers News)
2017-08-16 00:06

Cyber criminals are becoming more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. They are now adopting more clandestine techniques that come with limitless attack vectors and are harder to...

Novel Attack Tricks Servers to Cache, Expose Personal Data (Threatpost)
2017-07-25 15:00

Researchers have a devised a way to trick a web server into caching pages and exposing personal data to attackers.