Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2019
The Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and is instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. The Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The authorities are also instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. In April 2018, Facebook revealed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
Three Romanian men who have been sentenced to prison for a fraud scheme totaling more than $21 million. US authorities have sentenced to prison three Romanian men who hacked US servers and used them in a fraud scheme that totaled more than $21 million. The men are Teodor Laurentiu Costea, Robert Codrut Dumitrescu, and Cosmin […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
The Indiana County is the last victim in a wave of ransomware attacks that hit US cities, officials are investigating the extent of the attack. The computer systems of the Indiana County were hit by a ransomware attack, officials are currently investigating the extent of the attack. Officials of an Indiana county say they are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
Security experts at Emsisoft released the third decryptor in a few days, this time announced a free one for the LooCipher ransomware. A few days ago, the experts at Emsisoft released two free decryptors for the ZeroFucks ransomware and Ims00rry ransomware, now the malware team announced the released of a decryptor for the LooCipher ransomware. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
Experts at Defiant have uncovered a campaign that exploited recently disclosed plugin vulnerabilities to inject malware into websites. Experts at Defiant, the company that developed the Wordfence security plugin for WordPress, uncovered a malvertising campaign that leverages recently disclosed plugin flaws to inject malicious code into websites. Threat actors behind the malvertising campaign are leveraging […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
ESET researchers reported that China-linked cyberespionage group APT15 has been using a previously undocumented backdoor for more than two years. Security researchers at ESET reported that China-linked threat actor APT15 (aka Ke3chang, Mirage, Vixen Panda, Royal APT and Playful Dragon) has been using a previously undocumented backdoor for more than two years. APT15Â has been active […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2019
A flaw in the open-source ProFTPD file transfer protocol (FTP) server can be exploited to copy files to vulnerable servers and potentially execute arbitrary code. The security researcher Tobias MĂ€del discovered a vulnerability in the open-source ProFTPD file transfer protocol (FTP) server that can be exploited to copy files to vulnerable servers and potentially execute arbitrary […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2019
Experts discovered several flaws in Comodo Antivirus, including a vulnerability that could allow to escape the sandbox and escalate privileges. The Tenable expert David Wells discovered five flaws in the Comodo Antivirus and Comodo Antivirus Advanced. Four of the vulnerabilities affect were version 12.0.0.6810 and one the version 11.0.0.6582. The most severe flaw, tracked as CVE=2019-3969, could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2019
Malware researchers at Yoroi-Cybaze Z-Lab have discovered a P2P worm that is spreading Crypto-Miners in the wild. Introduction In the past months we published a white paper exploring the risks that users can encounter when downloading materials from P2P sharing network, such as the Torrent one. We discussed how crooks easily lure their victims to download malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2019
VLC player is still affected by a critical heap-based memory buffer over-read condition, tracked as CVE-2019-13615, that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. The VLC player is still affected by a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-13615. The potential impact of the flaw is important because the software […]
