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Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

Grindr gay-dating app exposed millions of users’ private data, messages, locations

According to an NBC report, the Grindr gay-dating app was affected by 2 security issues (now patched) that could expose the information of its more than 3 million daily users. Every day we read of a new data breach, in some cases, exposed data could have a severe impact on the victim. According to an NBC report, the Grindr […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2018

Fauxpersky Keylogger masqueraded as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreads via USB drives

Security researchers at Cybereason recently discovered a credential-stealing malware dubbed Fauxpersky, that is masquerading as Kaspersky Antivirus and spreading via infected USB drives. Fauxpersky was written in AutoIT or AutoHotKey, which respectively are a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting and a free keyboard macro program to send keystrokes to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2018

Systems at a Power Company in India infected by a ransomware

A ransomware infected systems at the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power company in India, crooks demanded 10 million Rupees to get the data back. The Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam power company in India was hacked last week, attackers breached into its computer systems and stole the billing data of their customers. The hackers demanded 10 million Rupees to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2018

European police agencies coordinated by Europol arrested 20 people for Spear Phishing scam

An international operation conducted by the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with support from Europol, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), and Eurojust. led to the arrest of 20 individuals involved in a banking spear phishing scam. According to the investigators, the banking phishing scam allowed crooks to defrauded bank customers of €1 million […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2018

Ensuring best website security through SSL Certificate updates.

What are the advantages for adopting an SSL Certificates and why is it important to discover and analyze SSL Certificates online? Secure Socket Layer (SSL) has gained weight with the increasing concern of security for all sensitive data online. In fact, it is the only reliable source for secure business and data handling. The entire […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2018

Under Armour data breach affected about 150 million MyFitnessPal users

Under Armour became aware of a potential security breach on March 25, the company said an unauthorized party had accessed MyFitnessPal user data. Under Armour learned of the data breach on March 25, it promptly reported the hack to law enforcement and hired security consultants to investigate the incident. Attackers hacked the MyFitnessPal application that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2018

The latest variant of the Panda Banker Trojan target Japan

Security researchers at Arbor Networks have discovered a threat actor targeting financial institutions in Japan using the Panda Banker banking malware (aka Zeus Panda, PandaBot). Panda Banker was first spotted 2016 by Fox-IT, it borrows code from the Zeus banking Trojan. In November 2017, threat actors behind the Zeus Panda banking Trojan leveraged black Search Engine Optimization (SEO) […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2018

Drupal finally addressed the critical CVE-2018-7600 Drupalgeddon2 vulnerability

The Drupal development team has fixed the drupalgeddon2 vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to take over a website. A few days ago, Drupal Security Team confirmed that a “highly critical” vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-7600, affects Drupal 7 and 8 core and announced the availability of security updates on March 28th. The vulnerability was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2018

CISCO addresses two critical remote code execution flaws in IOS XE operating system

This week Cisco patched three critical vulnerabilities affecting its operating system IOS XE, two of them are remote code execution flaws that could be exploited by an attacker to gain full control over vulnerable systems. Cisco March 2018 Semiannual Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory Bundled Publication addressed 22 vulnerabilities, 3 of them rated as […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2018

Boeing production plant infected with WannaCry ransomware

According to a report from the Seattle Times, the dreaded WannaCry ransomware hit a Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday. WannaCry is back, this time it infected some systems belonging to US aircraft manufacturer Boeing. According to a report from the Seattle Times, the dreaded ransomware hit a Boeing production plant in Charleston, South Carolina on […]

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