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New ‘Meow’ Attack Has Deleted Almost 4,000 Unsecured Databases 07/25 Update added below. This post was originally published on July 22nd, 2020. Hundreds of unsecured databases exposed on the public web are the target of an automated ‘meow’ attack that destroys data without any explanation. The activity started recently by hitting Elasticsearch and MongoDB instances without leaving
US Offers $2 Million For Info On Ukrainians Charged For SEC Hack The U.S. Department of State today announced rewards of up to $1 million for information that would lead to the arrest or conviction of Ukrainian nationals Artem Viacheslavovich Radchenko and Oleksandr Vitalyevich Ieremenko. The State Department is offering the $1 million bounties under the Transnational
Critical SharePoint Flaw Dissected, RCE Details Now Available Details are now available for exploiting a critical security vulnerability that affects Microsoft SharePoint, increasing the risk of attacks on unpatched systems. A technical blog post this week explains how the bug works and how a low-privileged user can leverage it to run arbitrary code remotely on
D-Link Blunder: Firmware Encryption Key Exposed In Unencrypted Image Security researchers have demonstrated a method to decrypt proprietary firmware images embedded in D-Link routers. Firmware is the piece of code that powers low-level functions on hardware devices. It is typically hard-coded within the read-only memory. Companies encrypt firmware images in their devices to prevent their reverse engineering by competitors and threat