Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2020
Organizers of Black Hat Asia and DEF CON China security conferences announced that they put the events on hold due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Bad news for cybersecurity passionates and experts, organizers of Black Hat Asia and DEF CON China security conferences announced last week that they have put the events on hold due to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Maastricht University finally paid a 30 bitcoin ransom to crooks Massive DDoS attack brought down 25% Iranian Internet connectivity The number of cyber attacks on Saudi Aramco is increasing 1.2 million CPR numbers for Danish citizen leaked through […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2020
IOTA Foundation behind the IOTA cryptocurrency was forced to shut down its entire network following a cyber attack that resulted in the theft of funds. Hackers have exploited a vulnerability in the official IOTA wallet to steal funds from the users. In response to the incident, the IOTA Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the IOTA […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2020
Photos and personal information belonging to patients of the NextMotion plastic surgery tech firm have been exposed online through an unsecured S3 bucket. Hundreds of thousands of documents containing photos and personal information belonging to patients of the plastic surgery technology company NextMotion have been exposed online through an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2020
Security experts have discovered multiple flaws, dubbed SweynTooth, in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) implementations of major system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors. A group of researchers has discovered multiple vulnerabilities, tracked as SweynTooth, in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) implementations of major system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors. The group was composed of researchers Matheus E. Garbelini, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2020
Austria’s foreign ministry announced that the cyber attack against its systems, allegedly carried by a state actor has ended. Earlier January, Austriaâs foreign ministry announced it was facing a âserious cyberattackâ and that it could be the work of a nation-state actor. âDue to the gravity and nature of the attack, it cannot be ruled out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2020
A Russian court fined Twitter and Facebook 4 million rubles each for refusing to store the personal data of Russian citizens on local servers. At the end of January, Russiaâs telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. On Thursday, a court […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2020
Nedbank bank announced on Thursday that a security breach at a third-party supplier has compromised the details of as many as 1.7 million of its clients. Nedbank bank disclosed on Thursday a security breach at a third-party supplier that has compromised the details of as many as 1.7 million of its clients. The bank revealed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2020
US store chain Rutter disclosed a security breach, 71 locations were infected with a point-of-sale (POS) malware used to steal customers’ credit card information. The Rutter’s, a U.S. convenience store, fast food restaurant, and gas station chain owner, has disclosed a security breach. The company confirmed that attackers gained access to its stores’ network system […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2020
An American was charged with money laundering while operating the dark web Helix Bitcoin mixer service between 2014 and 2017. Larry Dean Harmon (36), from Akron, Ohio, was charged with laundering more than $310 million worth of Bitcoin while he was operating a Darknet-based cryptocurrency laundering service between 2014 and 2017. According to three-count indictment […]
