Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2020
Security experts are warning of a new wave of attacks targeting a zero-day vulnerability in the popular Duplicator WordPress Plugin. Last week the development team behind the popular Duplicator WordPress plugin, the Snap Creek, addressed a zero-day vulnerability that affected at least 1 million websites. Now researchers at security firm WordFence are warning of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2020
Since end-December 2019 lampion malware has been noted as the most prominent malware targeting Portuguese organizations. Several devices have been infected when the victims open the zip file downloaded from the URL embedded in the malicious email that lures the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax (ATA), Energias de Portugal (EDP), and more recently the DPD firm â an international parcel delivery […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2020
Raccoon Malware is a recently discovered infostealer that can extract sensitive data from about 60 applications on a targeted system. Racoon malware, Legion, Mohazo, and Racealer, is an infostealer that recently appeared in the threat landscape that is advertised in hacking forums. The malware is cheap compared to similar threats, it is able to steal sensitive data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2020
Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. Slickwraps is an online store that offers for sale skins mobile devices, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and gaming consoles. The data leak was disclosed last week, on February 21 the company that customer records were accidentally exposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2020
The FBI recommends using longer passwords composed of multiple words into a long string of at least 15 characters instead of short passwords including special characters. Recent guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) highlights that the password length is much more important than password complexity. The recommendations are part of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2020
FireEyeâs report revealed that the incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families in 2019. According to the FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report, FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and identified 1,268 malware families. The most worrisome figure is related to the number of previously unseen malware families […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2020
ISS, the multinational Denmark-based facility services company, was hit with a malware that shuts down shared IT services worldwide. ISS, the Danish multinational services company announced it was hit with malware, in response to the incident the firm disabled access to shared IT services worldwide. ISS services include cleaning services, support services, property services, catering […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs IOTA cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after a coordinated attack on its Trinity wallet Organizers of major hacking conferences in Asia put them on hold due to Coronavirus outbreak US administration requests $9.8B for cyber 2021 budget for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2020
New Mexico sues Google for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from children. Google is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from students with an age of less than 13 years. The lawsuit was filed by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2020
Cisco Talos researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that was employed targeted attacks against organizations in Southeast Asia. Experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that appears a custom malware developed by a threat actor focused on government and diplomatic targets. The malware was employed in targeted attacks against […]
