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Mass exploitation of PHP-CGI vulnerability in attacks targeting Japanese companies

📟 News

Date: 12/03/2025

Author: HackMag

GreyNoise and Cisco Talos experts warn that hackers are actively exploiting CVE-2024-4577, a critical PHP-CGI vulnerability that was discovered and fixed in early June 2024.

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PACS from a hacker’s perspective. Attacks on RFID-based physical access control systems

Date: 11/03/2025

Author: Thund3rb0lt

Hacking electronic turnstiles installed at building entrances is a popular trick shown in many movies. This article discusses RFID-based physical access control systems (PACS) and demonstrates how easily the most commonly used identifier, EM4100, can be faked.

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Nearly a million Windows computers impacted by a malvertising campaign

📟 News

Date: 10/03/2025

Author: HackMag

According to Microsoft, nearly 1 million Windows devices fell victim to a sophisticated malvertising campaign in recent months. Cybercriminals were able to steal credentials, cryptocurrency, and sensitive information from infected workstations.

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YouTube warns of scam video featuring its CEO

📟 News

Date: 07/03/2025

Author: HackMag

According to YouTube, scammers use an AI-generated video of the company’s CEO in phishing attacks to steal user credentials.

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Battle dolphin. My achievements with Flipper Zero inside of a month

Date: 06/03/2025

Author: FiReMaN

Flipper Zero, a hacker multitool created by Russian developers, has become quite famous by now. At the beginning of 2021, the project raised almost 5 million USD on Kickstarter, and the community keenly followed production-related twists and turns and subsequent difficulties with its distribution and delivery. In this article, I am going to share my Flipper-related for you to decide whether such a device is worth purchasing or not.

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Polish Space Agency disconnects its network due to hacker attack

📟 News

Date: 05/03/2025

Author: HackMag

Last weekend, the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) had to disconnect all of its systems from the Internet to localize an attack targeting its IT infrastructure.

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Gain sight of a remote network! Reconstructing the connection diagram based on traffic dump

Date: 04/03/2025

Author: Alexander Mikhailov

To comprehend operating principles and functions of network protocols, you have to understand their structure. The purpose of this study was to analyze a small portion of network traffic and reconstruct the network diagram based on the data extracted from it.

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