Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
Authorities are investigating an American Express employee for unauthorized access to cardholder information and potentially abuse for fraud. Authorities launched a criminal investigation on an American Express employee that is suspected to accessed to cardholder information and potentially abused for fraud. Exposed information includes full name, physical and/or billing address, Social Security numbers, birth dates, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
A new wave of ransomware attacks hit US and Australian hospitals and health service providers causing the paralysis of their systems. Several hospitals and health service providers from the U.S. and Australia were hit by ransomware attacks that forced the administrators to shut part of their IT infrastructure. “Ten hospitals—three in Alabama and seven in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
Experts discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster containing personally identifiable and tax information of Russian citizens exposed online. Security experts from Comparitech along with security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered 20 million tax records belonging to Russian citizens exposed online in clear text and without protection. The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
Iran ’s Passive Defense Organization chief Gholamreza Jalali declared that the US government has started its cyber war against the country. Gholamreza Jalali, Iran’s Passive Defense Organization chief, announced that that “America has started its cyber war against Iran, without providing more details. The news was reported by the ISNA news website on October 1, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) presented the Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan to increase the resilience of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) sectors. The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) presented the Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan to enhance the security and resilience of Singapore’s Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) sectors in delivering essential services. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
Adwind is back, a new variant of the popular RAT is targeting US petroleum industry entities with new advanced features. A new variant of the popular Adwind RAT (aka jRAT, AlienSpy, and JSocket) is targeting entities in the US petroleum industry. The new variant implements advanced features such as multi-layer obfuscation. The malware is distributed via a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
The ITarian Forum, the Comodo discussion board and support forums, has been hacked and data belonging to nearly 245,000 registered users were exposed. Hackers breached the ITarian Forum, the Comodo discussion board and support forums, accessing login credentials of nearly 245,000 users registered with the Comodo Forums websites. Comodo has not specified which of its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
Demant, a leading international hearing health care company, expects to incur losses of up to $95 million following a ransomware attack. Last month, Demant suffered a cyber attack that caused important problems to its operations, the company has yet to recover after the attack, a circumstance that suggests it was hit by a ransomware attack. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
The malware expert Marco Ramilli collected a small set of VBA Macros widely re-used to “weaponize” Maldoc (Malware Document) in cyber attacks. Nowadays one of the most frequent cybersecurity threat comes from Malicious (office) document shipped over eMail or Instant Messaging. Some analyzed threats examples include: Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection, Spreading CVS Malware over Google, Microsoft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
Security Labs discovered a new IOT bot named “GUCCI”. It seems like the IOT botnet is named after an Italian luxury brand of fashion and leather goods. Analysis The discovery came to exist during our reconnaissance and intelligence collection process. The IOT threat detection engine picked the infection IP has shown below hosting number of bins […]
