Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2019
SAP released 11 Security Notes as part of the Patch Day â July 2019, one of which was a Hot News Note addressing a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. This month SAP released 11 Security Notes as part of the Patch Day â July 2019. One of them is a Hot News Note that addresses […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2019
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a security advisory to warn organizations of DNS hijacking attacks and provided recommendations this type of attack. In response to the numerous DNS hijacking attacks the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn organizations of this type of attack. “In January 2019 the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware Customers of 7-Eleven Japan lost $500,000 due to a flaw in the mobile app Hackers compromised a Canonical GitHub account, Ubuntu […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2019
Brazilian users have been targeted by a large number of router attacks aimed at modifying the configuration of their routers for malicious purposes. This year, security experts at Avast have blocked more than 4.6 million cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attempts carried out by crooks to execute commands without the usersâ knowledge. The campaign uncovered by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2019
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook will be obliged to pay a $5 Billion fine to settle the investigation conducted by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In April 2018, Facebook revealed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2019
The Magecart continues to target websites worldwide, it infected over 17,000 domains by targeting improperly secured Amazon S3 buckets. The Magecart gang made the headlines again, according to a new report published by RiskIQ, it has infected over 17,000 domains by targeting improperly secured Amazon S3 buckets. A few days ago, security experts at Sanguine Security have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2019
A new variant of the implements a unique protocol to communicate with Command and Control infrastructure A new variant of the Miori botnet uses a unique protocol to communicate with C&C infrastructure, it implements a protection mechanism to access the login panel. The Miori bot borrows the code from the dreaded Mirai malware. it first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2019
Exclusive – Malware researchers at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab have released a free decryptor tool for the Loocipher Ransomware. Ransomware continues to be an easy way to monetize the criminal efforts and for this reason new malware appear in the threat landscape. Loocipher is a new threat that is rapidly spreading, its functionalities are pretty straight forward […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2019
BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency due to a cyber attack. BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency was victim of a cyber attack, the Remixpoint’s subsidiary announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency. BITPoint discovered the security breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2019
The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws actively exploited in the wild. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1132, affects the Win32k component and could be […]
