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Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2020

Security Affairs newsletter Round 247

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Google removed 1.7K+ Joker Malware infected apps from its Play Store MageCart attack hit Australia bushfire Donors New Bill prohibits intelligence sharing with countries using Huawei 5G equipment 5G – The Future of Security and Privacy in Smart […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2020

Hackers patch Citrix servers to deploy their own backdoor

Attacks on Citrix servers are intensifying, one of the threat actors behind them is patching them and installing its own backdoor to lock out other attackers. Security experts are monitoring a spike in the number of attacks against Citrix servers after that researchers announced the availability online of proof-of-concept exploits for the CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix NetScaler […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2020

Microsoft provides mitigation for actively exploited CVE-2020-0674 IE Zero-Day

Microsoft published a security advisory to warn of an Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2020-0674) that is currently being exploited in the wild. Microsoft has published a security advisory (ADV200001) that includes mitigations for a zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0674, affecting Internet Explorer. The tech giant confirmed that the CVE-2020-0674 zero-day […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2020

Turkish Hackers hit Greek Government websites and local stock exchange

Turkish hackers hijacked for more than 1 hour the official websites of the Greek parliament, some ministries, as well as the country’s stock exchange. While eastern Libya ports controlled by commander Khalifa Haftar are shutting down oil exports, the group of Turkish hackers named Anka Neferler Tim claimed Friday to have hijacked for more than 90 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2020

Cybercrime Statistics in 2019

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020 Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow. According to the Cybersecurity Ventures’ cybercrime statistics 2017 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2020

Hack the Army bug bounty program paid $275,000 in rewards

Hack the Army bug bounty program results: 146 valid vulnerabilities were reported by white hat hackers and more than $275,000 were paid in rewards. The second Hack the Army bug bounty program ran between October 9 and November 15, 2019 through the HackerOne platform. The bug bounty program operated by the Defense Digital Service, along […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2020

Chinese police arrested the operator of unauthorized VPN service that made $1.6 million from his activity

Chinese authorities continue operations against unauthorized VPN services that are very popular in the country. China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying and persecution of VPN services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. The Great Firewall project already blocked access to more hundreds of the world’s 1,000 top […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2020

Law enforcement seized WeLeakInfo.com for selling access to data from data breaches

The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. The service was claiming a database of over 12 billion records from over 10,000 data breaches. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2020

Expert released PoC exploits for recently disclosed Cisco DCNM flaws

A researcher has publicly released some proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits and technical details for flaws in Cisco’s Data Center Network Manager (DCNM). Early this month, Cisco released security updates for its Cisco’s Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) product that address several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. All the vulnerabilities were reported to Cisco through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) and Accenture’s iDefense service […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2020

Hundreds of million users installed Android fleeceware apps from Google Play

Security experts from Sophos discovered 25 Android apps on the official Google Play that were involved in financial fraud, 600 million affected. Security researchers from Sophos discovered a set of so-called fleeceware apps that have been installed by more than 600 million Android users. Fleeceware apps are malicious applications uploaded to the official Google Play […]

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 247

Hackers patch Citrix servers to deploy their own backdoor

Microsoft provides mitigation for actively exploited CVE-2020-0674 IE Zero-Day

Turkish Hackers hit Greek Government websites and local stock exchange

Cybercrime Statistics in 2019

Hack the Army bug bounty program paid $275,000 in rewards

Chinese police arrested the operator of unauthorized VPN service that made $1.6 million from his activity

Law enforcement seized WeLeakInfo.com for selling access to data from data breaches

Expert released PoC exploits for recently disclosed Cisco DCNM flaws

Hundreds of million users installed Android fleeceware apps from Google Play

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