Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

Researchers at Wordfence reported an ongoing hacking campaign exploiting security flaws in some WordPress plugins. Researchers from Wordfence uncovered an ongoing hacking campaign exploiting security vulnerabilities in some WordPress plugins to redirect visitors to websites under the control of the attackers. The campaign specifically targeted flaws in WordPress plugins developed by the developer NicDark (now renamed as “Endreww”), such as a plugin called Simple 301 Redirects – Addon – Bulk Uplo

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 24, 2019

The paper being presented suggested that the two researchers had a method to quickly find large semiprime numbers and essentially break RSA-2048 and any other semiprime-based encryption.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

UK authorities have seized over £920,000 ($1.1 million) worth of Bitcoin from a prolific hacker, the funds will be used to compensate his victims. Grant West, aka ‘Courvoisier,’ is a hacker that was arrested by the police on September 2017 as result of a two-year-long investigation code-named ‘Operation Draba.’ The man was charged with multiple hacking and drug-related crimes.

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WIRED Threat Level

AUGUST 24, 2019

Xbox eavesdropping, email scammers, and more of the week's top security news.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

Some versions of the Squid web proxy cache server built with Basic Authentication features are affected by a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. The heap buffer overflow security flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-12527 , could be exploited by attackers to trigger DoS condition and also to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable servers. The flaw received a high severity CVSS v3. 0 base score of 8.8 by, an attacker could be exploited by sending a specially crafted request to any targeted server.

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