Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2019
German politicians were impacted by a massive data leak that exposed their personal data online, German Chancellor Angela Merkel was affected too. Data belonging to hundreds of German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, were exposed online due to a massive leak that is the biggest data dump of its kind in the country. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2019
BlankMediaGames disclosed a data breach that affects millions of players of the popular role-playing game Town of Salem. The BlankMediaGames suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7.6 million players of the browser-based role-playing game Town of Salem Exposed data includes usernames, emails, passwords, IP addresses, game and forum activity. The bad news for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
The first Adobe security updates for 2019 addresses two critical vulnerabilities in the Acrobat and Reader products. Adobe addressed two critical vulnerabilities in the Acrobat and Reader products, a use-after-free issue and a security bypass flaw. The flaws affect the latest versions of Acrobat DC, Acrobat Reader DC, Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat Reader DC 2017 for Windows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
The website of the tram system in Dublin, the Luas, was hacked on Thursday, attackers claim to have the access to information stored on the organizationâs systems. Attackers defaced the website of the Luas, the home page displayed a message demanding the payment of 1 bitcoin. The hackers asked the payment within 5 days threatening to âpublish all data and send emails […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
Three years after its disclosure, Google has patched an information disclosure flaw in the Android version of the popular Chrome web browser. The issue exposes devices information, including device model and firmware version, an attacker could exploit this info to remotely identify unpatched devices and target them. The flaw ties the way the Android version […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2019
The unCaptcha automated system can once again bypass Googleâs reCAPTCHA challenges, despite major updates to the security service. It has happened again, the unCaptcha automated system is able to bypass the Google reCAPTCHA mechanism even if it was improved over the years. The unCaptcha system was created in 2017 to bypass the reCAPTCHA mechanism used to protect websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
The Cloud hosting provider Dataresolution.net was hit by a ransomware-based attack on Christmas Eve that took down its systems. Data Resolution LLC provides software hosting, business continuity systems, cloud computing, and data center services to more serves than 30,000 businesses worldwide, The news was first reported by the popular investigator Brian Krebs on KrebsOnSecurity, the company believe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
Developers that include the GNU’s wget utility in their applications have to use the new version that was released on Boxing Day. GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
The latest attack of 2018 against cryptocurrency wallets and organizations in the cryptocurrency industry hit the popular Electrum wallets. Hackers hit Electrum Bitcoin wallet and stole over 200 bitcoin, more than $750,000. The attack started on December 21th, 2018, and hackers leveraged a critical vulnerability that was addressed in early 2018. The vulnerability could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2019
ESET analyzed the distribution technique used by cyber criminals in new Emotet campaign that has recently affected various countries in Latin America. In November, experts from ESET uncovered a massive spam campaign that was distributing the Emotet malware. The campaign targeted several users in some Latin American countries and ESET shared details on the propagation used […]
