18Sep-17

Analysis of the Joomla RCE (CVE-2015-8562)

Recently, during a penetration test I have found a vulnerable installation of the Joomla CMS. Yes, I already know that this vulnerability is quite old and that there is a ready to use Metasploit module but here is the catch: the module and other scripts available on internet weren’t working against my environment, furthermore, during the last year a lot of new vulnerabilities rely on the PHP Object Injection and Serialize/Unserialize. That's the reason why I thought it...
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1Mar-16

Backdoored OS

Recap

Nella giornata del 21 Febbraio la distribuzione Linux Mint è stata attaccata e, a seguito dell’intrusione, l’aggressore è stato in grado di modificare la ISO della versione 17.3 Cinnamon Edition, inserendo una backdoor al suo interno. "Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it," Clement Lefebvre - head of Linux Mint project Tralasciando le modalità dell’attacco a Wordpress, la successiva compromissione del sito web...
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1Mar-16

Backdoored OS

Recap

On February 21 Linux Mint was attacked and, as a result of the intrusion, the attacker was able to backdoor the ISO (Cinnamon Edition v17.3). "Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it," Clement Lefebvre - head of Linux Mint project Aside from the Wordpress attack, the subsequent forum dump (database password: "upMint.", seriously?) and the analysis of the malware (
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