Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2020
VMware has addressed two serious ESXi vulnerabilities that were demonstrated at the Tianfu Cup International PWN Contest. VMware has released patches for two serious ESXi vulnerabilities that were disclosed during the 2020 Tianfu Cup International PWN Contest. The Tianfu Cup is the most important hacking contest held in China, the total bonus of the contest […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2020
Authorities in India believe that a major power outage that occurred in October in Mumbai may have been caused by hackers. On October 13, a major power outage occurred in the metropolitan area of Mumbai causing the partial disruption of the traffic management systems and the paralysis of the rail traffic and also impacted work […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was hit by a new cyber attack that may have caused the leakage of information related to its business partners. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was hit again by a massive cyberattack that may have caused the leakage of information related to its business partners. “Company officials on Nov. 20 said they were checking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2020
The QakBot banking trojan has dropped the ProLock ransomware, they are now opting for the Egregor ransomware in their operations. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has discovered that QakBot (aka Qbot) operators have abandoned ProLock for Egregor ransomware. Egregor has been actively distributed since September 2020 and has so far hit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2020
Facebook has addressed a security vulnerability in its Messenger for Android app that could have allowed attackers to spy on users. Facebook has addressed a major security issue in its Messenger for Android app that could have allowed threat actors to spy on users by placing and connecting Messenger audio calls without their interaction. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2020
An unpatched security flaw in GO SMS Pro, a popular messaging app for Android with over 100 million installs, exposes media messages. GO SMS Pro is a popular Android messaging app with over 100 million installs, that has been found to be affected by an unpatched security flaw that publicly exposes media transferred between users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2020
Canada Centre for Cyber Security warns of risks related to state-sponsored programs from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. A report published by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, titled “National Cyber Threat Assessment 2020,” warns of risks associated with state-sponsored operations from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The report is based on both […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2020
Drupal development team has released security updates to address a remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-13671. The Drupal development team has released security updates to fix a remote code execution vulnerability related caused by the failure to properly sanitize the names of uploaded files. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-13671, has been classified as critical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2020
The CyberNews.com Investigation team carried out an infiltration operation against an IRC botnet and reported it to CERT Vietnam to help take it down. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/we-infiltrated-an-irc-botnet-heres-what-we-found/ In order to gather valuable information about the IRC botnet’s activity, we joined its Command and Control channel where we met the botmaster who was responsible for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2020
Security experts from RiskIQ discovered a new variant of the Grelos skimmer that presents overlap with Magecart group operations. Researchers from RiskIQ analyzed the increased overlap of a new variant of the skimmer dubbed Grelos and the operations of the groups under the Magecart umbrella. The analysis demonstrates the difficulty in associating new strains of skimmer to groups […]
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