Bite Sized Cyber Crime

PrestaShop Vulnerability Leads to Fake Checkout Pages

PrestaShop is a great open source tool for e-commerce sites, and is behind the websites of many shop owners. However an SQL injection that leads to remote code execution allows threats the ability to modify shops for the worse.
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/HTV5b6TS

Advocate Health Data Breach

I used to be a health care student, who would've thought? I found some dirt on my old place of clinicals and figured I'd share and talk about security in healthcare.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/4eHUbBcG

Maui: The Ransomware That Picks Files to Encrypt with Surgical Precision

Most ransomware encrypts your entire device and leaves a ransom note for you to pay up. But this new ransomware is sneakier and allows hackers more control and gives you more room for error.
 
Sources: https://pastebin.com/QX8D1gEa

When Smart Devices Attack: The Dyn DDoS

A DDoS is usually performed with malware infected computers called zombies, but as smart devices and the Internet of Things rises in popularity, a new insecure tech can be exploited to perform these attacks that can't be predicted or prepared for.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/9qbkAVHy

ZuoRAT: The Malware Infecting Home Routers

Usually corporations are targets of cybercrime, but this new malware was made for home routers and allows whoever controls it remote access to your network. Is it espionage? Data harvesting? A new way to target corporations through their tech illiterate users?
Sources: https://pastebin.com/tFDgP0EN

ILOVEYOU: The Worm that Infected 10% of the Internet

ILOVEYOU is one of the most notorious malware out there, but it came from a disgruntled college student who stole dial-up passwords to use the internet.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/dz3wsKXp

Saudi Aramco: The Biggest Hack Ever?

I wanted to figure out what the biggest hack ever was, and I think I may have found it! No official dollar amount is assigned to this attack that targeted a tycoon in the oil industry, but it is among the most expensive.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/X2JfTv21

Symbiote: The New Linux Parasite

Linux machines don't usually get malware, but when they do it can be very serious and very hard to spot. This is the case with the newly discovered parasite Symbiote.
Sources: https://pastebin.com/jVj2DHH5