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Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2020
CIRWA Project tracks ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure

Researchers from Temple University have been tracking ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure all over the world. A team of researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia has presented a project named CIRWA (repository of critical infrastructure ransomware attacks) that aims at tracking ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide. The project was launched in September 2019 and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2020
Fairfax County Public Schools hit by Maze ransomware

Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), one of the largest school divisions in the US, was hit by Maze ransomware operators. Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) was victim of an attack carried out by the Maze ransomware operators. FCPS is one of the largest school districts in the US with an approved budget of $3.2 billion […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2020
Security Affairs newsletter Round 281

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Visa warns of new sophisticated credit card skimmer dubbed Baka WhatsApp discloses six previously undisclosed flaws Chilean bank BancoEstado hit by REVil ransomware Epic Manchego gang uses Excel docs that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2020
Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer suffered a data leak

Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer suffered a data leak, an unsecured database managed by the company containing gamers’ info was exposed online. Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer has suffered a data leak, this is the discovery made by the security researcher Bob Diachenko. The expert discovered an unsecured database that exposed the information of approximately 100,000 individuals who purchased […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2020
Bank of Seychelles hit by a ransomware attack

The Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS) was hit by a ransomware attack disclose the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS). The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) disclosed via a press statement that the Development Bank of Seychelles (DBS) was hit by a ransomware attack. DBS is a joint venture by the Seychelles government and some shareholders including […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2020
INVDoS, a severe DoS issue in Bitcoin core remained undisclosed for two years

The INVDoS (Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service)Attack would have allowed hackers to crash Bitcoin nodes and alternative chains. Two years ago, the Bitcoin protocol engineer Braydon Fuller. discovered a major uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability (INVDoS), tracked as CVE-2018-17145, that affected the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and other blockchains, including Litecoin, Namecoin, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2020
MalĂ smoke gang could infect your PC while you watch porn sites

A cybercrime group named MalĂ smoke has been targeting porn sites over the past months with malicious ads redirecting users to exploit kits. A cybercrime group named MalĂ smoke has been targeting porn sites over the past months, it is placing malicious ads on adult-themed websites to redirect users to exploit kits and deliver malware. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2020
Threat actors target WordPress sites using vulnerable File Manager install

Experts reported threat actors are increasingly targeting a recently addressed vulnerability in the WordPress plugin File Manager. Researchers from WordPress security company Defiant observed a surge in the number of attacks targeting a recently addressed vulnerability in the WordPress plugin File Manager. In early September, experts reported that hackers were actively exploiting a critical remote […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2020
Iran denies any involvement in the attack against 2020 US election

The Iranian government denies Microsoft’s allegations related to the alleged attacks against individuals involved in the upcoming 2020 US presidential election. Microsoft announced to have detected a new wave of attacks carried out by Chinese, Iranian, and Russian state-sponsored hackers against the US election. Threat actors had tried to compromise email accounts belonging to people […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2020
Great news, now you can protect your Zoom account with 2FA

Zoom has implemented two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect all user accounts against security breaches and other cyber attacks. Zoom has announced finally implemented the two-factor authentication (2FA) to protect all user accounts from unauthorized accesses. This is a great news due to the spike in the popularity of the communication software during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. […]