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A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John
Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online
Romanians arrested for running underground malware services
Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs
Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance
FBI issued an alert on Ragnar Locker ransomware activity
Massive threat campaign strikes open-source repos, Sonatype spots new CursedGrabber malware
TikTok fixed security issues that could have led one-click account takeover
VMware discloses critical zero-day CVE-2020-4006 in Workspace One
VMware fixed SD-WAN flaws that could allow hackers to target enterprise networks
2FA bypass in cPanel potentially exposes tens of millions of websites to hack
A new Stantinko Bot masqueraded as httpd targeting Linux servers
Baidu Android apps removed from Play Store because caught collecting user details
Credential stuffing attack targeted 300K+ Spotify users
Crooks social-engineered GoDaddy staff to take over crypto-biz domains
Microsoft fixes Kerberos Authentication issues with an out-of-band Update
TrickBot operators continue to update their malware to increase resilience to takedown
Belden discloses data breach as a result of a cyber attack
Group-IB Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report
Operation Falcon: Group-IB helps INTERPOL identify Nigerian BEC ring members
Retail giant Home Depot agrees to a $17.5 million settlement over 2014 data breach
UK NCSCs alert urges orgs to fix MobileIron CVE-2020-15505 RCE
Watch out, WAPDropper malware could subscribe you to premium services
A zero-day in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 has yet to be fixed
Carding Action 2020: Group-IB supports Europol-backed operation saving €40 million
Danish news agency Ritzau hit by ransomware, but did not pay the ransom
Ransomware hits US Fertility the largest US fertility network
Sophos notifies data leak after a misconfiguration
SSH-backdoor Botnet With ‘Research Infection Technique
A week later, Manchester United has yet to recover after a cyberattack
Canon publicly confirms August ransomware attack and data breach
Details of 16 million Brazilian COVID-19 patients exposed online
Drupal emergency updates fix critical arbitrary PHP code execution
North Korean hackers allegedly behind cyberattacks on AstraZeneca
The global impact of the Fortinet 50.000 VPN leak posted online
Chip maker Advantech hit by Conti ransomware gang
Hundreds of C-level executives credentials available for $100 to $1500 per account
Office 365 phishing campaign leverages Oracle and Amazon cloud services
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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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