Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2018
Hospital network Atrium Health suffered a data breach, hackers accessed patients’ personal information after compromising the technology solutions provider AccuDoc. Atrium Health offers healthcare and wellness programs in the Southeast of the United States through more than 40 hospitals and 900 care locations. AccuDoc is a company providing technology solutions to the healthcare industry, including Hospital […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2018
FBI along with cybersecurity firms dismantled a sophisticated ad fraud scheme that allowed its operators to earn tens of millions of dollars Law enforcement and private firms such as Google and WhiteOps took down one of the largest and most sophisticated digital ad-fraud campaign, tracked as Dubbed 3ve, that infected over 1.7 million computers to carry out advertising frauds. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2018
A British MP claims Facebook was ware about Russian political interference in 2014, long before the events become public. The British MP Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary inquiry into disinformation, revealed that one of the emails seized from US software company Six4Three as part of a US lawsuit, demonstrates that a Facebook engineer had notified the social network giant in October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2018
Cisco has released a new round of security patches to address potentially serious WebExec Webex flaw first addressed one month ago. One month ago, Cisco addressed the CVE-2018-15442 vulnerability, also tracked as WebExec by Counter Hack researchers Ron Bowes and Jeff McJunkin who discovered it. The flaw affects Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop and has been rated as a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2018
British and Dutch data protection regulators fined the ride-sharing company Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 data breach. British and Dutch data protection regulators have fined Uber with $1,170,892 for the 2016 security breach that exposed personal data of 57 million of its users. In November 2017, the Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi announced that hackers broke […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2018
Hacker compromised third-party NodeJS module “Event-Stream” introducing a malicious code aimed at stealing funds in Bitcoin wallet apps. The malicious code was introduced in the version 3.3.6, published on September 9 via the Node Package Manager (NPM) repository. The Event-Stream library is a very popular NodeJS module used to allow developers the management of data streams, it has nearly 2 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2018
A new malspam campaign hit Italy in this days, threat actors are spreading a new variant of a powerful downloader named sLoad. sLoad is a sophisticated script, used in the past to deliver different types of malware such as the dreaded “Ramnit banker”. “In the past months CERT-Yoroi observed an emerging attack pattern targeting its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2018
Security researchers with Checkmarx developed two mobile applications that abuse the functionality of smart bulbs for data exfiltration. Security researchers with Checkmarx developed two mobile applications that exploit smart bulbs features for data exfiltration. The experts used the Magic Blue smart bulbs that implement communication through Bluetooth 4.0. The devices are manufactured by the Chinese company called […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2018
UK Parliament Seizes seized confidential Facebook documents from the developer of a now-defunct bikini photo searching app to investigate its data protection policies. A British lawmaker obliged a visiting tech executive to share the files ahead of an international hearing that parliament is hosting on Tuesday to gather info into disinformation and “fake news.” Committee Chairman […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2018
Ransomware attacks continue to threaten the healthcare industry, the last incident in order of time impacted the Ohio Hospital System. The ransomware attack infected computer systems at the East Ohio Regional Hospital and Ohio Valley Medical Center reportedly caused the disruption of the hospitals’ emergency rooms. The malware hit the Ohio Hospital System on Friday, Nov. 23, evening, […]
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