Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
Locked Shields 2019 – France wins, the world’s biggest and most advanced international cyber drills organized by NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence (CCDCOE). The international live-fire cyber defence exercise Locked Shields 2019(LS19) took place on April 8-12 in Tallinn, Estonia, and the figures behind this important competition are important. Locked Shields 2019 is organised […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2019
Thousands of WordPress sites using the Yellow Pencil Plugin were exposed to hacking due to a privilege escalation vulnerability in the plugin. A privilege escalation vulnerability in the Yellow Pencil Visual Theme Customizer plugin exposes WordPress websites to hack. The flaw could be exploited by attackers to update arbitrary options on vulnerable installations. Early this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2019
Two Romanian hackers are convicted of infecting 400,000 computers in the U.S. with malicious code and stole millions of dollars from the victims. Bogdan Nicolescu and Radu Miclaus are convicted of infecting 400,000 computers, most of them in the U.S.. The malware was developed to steal credentials, financial data, personal information, then the crooks offered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2019
A cyber attack hit the Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis with the intent of discrediting him and the Lithuanian national defense system. A major and orchestrated misinformation cyber attack hit the Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis with the intent of discrediting him and the Lithuanian national defense system. “The currently unfolding complex cyber-information attack has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 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! DNS hijacking campaigns target Gmail, Netflix, and PayPal users Rockwell Automation fixes multiple DoS flaws in Stratix Switch introduced by Cisco Software AeroGrow suffered a payment card data breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2019
FACEBOOK down: Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp services have gone down in Europe, US, Malaysia, and worldwide leaving millions of users furious. Facebook services including Instagram and Whatsapp are facing a widespread outage. The outage of Facebook services happens one month after the longest outage in history. Users in Europe, Malaysia and some parts of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2019
Bad news for users of the Microsoft Outlook email service, hackers have compromised the Microsoft Support Agent to access their email accounts. Earlier this year, hackers breached Microsoft’s customer support portal and gained access to some email accounts registered with the Microsoft’s Outlook service. Microsoft notified some of its users the security breach, it confirmed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2019
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents Media outlet Techcrunch reported that a hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and leaked the stolen info online. A hacker group claims to have hacked dozens of websites affiliated with the FBI and leaked online dozens of files containing the personal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2019
The hacker that hacked and defaced Matrix.org decided to disclose the security issues discovered during the attack and offers advice. This week, the hacker behind the hack of Matrix.org decided to disclose the vulnerabilities discovered during the attack. Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralized real-time communication that is also used for instant messaging, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2019
Hackers are using the EternalBlue exploit and leveraging advantage of Living off the Land (LotL) obfuscated PowerShell-based scripts to deliver malware and a Monero cryptocurrency. Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign that is targeting Asian entities using the EternalBlue exploit and leveraging advantage of Living off the Land (LotL) obfuscated PowerShell-based […]
