Security News

Hackers Exploiting Microsoft Servers to Mine Monero - Makes $63,000 In 3 Months
2017-09-28 09:33

Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly investment as it takes a monstrous amount of computing power, and thus hackers have started using malware that steals computing resources of computers it...

Apple Patches Vulnerabilities in macOS, macOS Server
2017-09-26 11:06

Apple on Monday announced the release of security patches for its macOS users, available as part of the macOS High Sierra 10.13 platform upgrade. read more

Optionsbleed bug makes Apache HTTP Server leak data from memory
2017-09-20 20:16

On Monday, security researcher Hanno Böck detailed a memory-leaking vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server that’s similar to the infamous OpenSSL Heartbleed bug uncovered in April 2014. Unlike...

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...