Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2018
Belgian newspaper reported that investigators had found proof that the Belgacom hack was the work of the UK GCHQ intelligence agency. Back to September 2013, Belgacom (now Proximus), the largest telecommunications company in Belgium and primarily state-owned, announced its IT infrastructure had suffered a malware-based attack. Here we are again to speak about this incident after […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2018
Italian Competition Authority AGCM fined Apple and Samsung a 5 million Euros and 10 million Euros for “planned obsolescence” of their mobile devices. After a long investigation conducted by the Italian Competition Authority AGCM, the agency has fined Apple and Samsung a 5 million Euros ($5.8 Million) and 10 million Euros ($11.5 Million) for “planned obsolescence” of their mobile devices. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2018
Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new DDoS-for-hire service called “0x-booter” built with leaked code that implements an easy to use interface. “0x-booter” first appeared on October 17, 2018, a post published on Facebook advertises over 500 Gbps of power and 20,000 bots. “During our regular monitoring, the FortiGuard Labs team recently discovered a new platform […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2018
The data breach suffered by the British Airways airline is worse than initially thought, according to IAG firm that wons the airline further 185,000 customers may have had impacted in the incident. The data breach suffered by the British Airways airline is worse than initially thought, according to IAG firm that owns the airline, further 185,000 customers may have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2018
Security researcher discovered a highly critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-14665) in X.Org Server package that affects major Linux distributions. The Indian security researcher Narendra Shinde has discovered a highly critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-14665) in X.Org Server package that affects major Linux distributions, including OpenBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X project provides an open source implementation of the X Window […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2018
Security experts Antonio Pirozzi and Pierluigi Paganini presented BOTCHAIN, the first fully functional Botnet built upon the Bitcoin Protocol. Security expert Antonio Pirozzi, director at ZLab malware lab at Cybaze firm, presented at the EU Cyber Threat Conference in Dublin conducted a research along with Pierluigi Paganini (aka @securityaffairs), about how crooks could abuse blockchain […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2018
Good news for the victims of the infamous GandCrab ransomware, security experts have created a decryption tool that allows them to decrypts files without paying the ransom. Bitdefender security firm along with Europol, the FBI, Romanian Police, and other law enforcement agencies has developed a free ransomware decryption tool. “The good news is that now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2018
Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal that exposed data of 87 million users. The announcement was made by the UK’s data protection regulator, Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham. “The ICO’s investigation found that between 2007 and 2014, Facebook processed the personal information of users unfairly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2018
The media outlet The Verge obtained a copy of a contract between Google and OEMs that obliges them to two years of security updates for popular phones. Google continues the battle for securing devices of its users, this time making mandatory for device makers two years of Android security updates. One of the main problems with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2018
Researchers discovered a “high” severity command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15442, in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop. It’s time to patch again the Cisco Webex video conferencing software of your organization to avoid ugly surprise. Researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin of Counter Hack discovered a “high” severity command injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15442, in Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop. The vulnerability […]
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