Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2019
Marcus Hutchins has been sentenced to “time served” and one year of supervised release his role in developing and selling the Kronos banking malware. The popular researcher Marcus Hutchins, also known as MalwareTech, has been sentenced to “time served” and one year of supervised release his role in developing and selling the Kronos banking malware. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2019
LibreOffice users have to know that their unpatched computers could be hacked by simply opening a specially crafted document. Bad news for LibreOffice users, the popular free and open-source office suite is affected by an unpatched remote code execution vulnerability Recently, LibreOffice released the latest version 6.2.5 that addresses two severe flaws tracked as CVE-2019-9848 and CVE-2019-9849. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2019
An Irish national has been sentenced to 78 months in jail for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk Road dark web marketplace. Gary Davis (31), of Wicklow, Ireland, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role as one of the administrators and forum moderators of Silk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2019
South African electric utility City Power that provides energy to the city of Johannesburg, has suffered serious disruptions after a ransomware attack. A ransomware infected systems at City Power, an electricity provider in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and some residents were left without power. The energy utility informed its customers via Twitter of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2019
Researchers at Imperva revealed that an undisclosed streaming service was hit by a massive DDoS attack that stopped it for 13 days. An undisclosed streaming service was hit by a 13‑day DDoS massive attack powered by a Mirai botnet composed of 402,000 IoT devices. Imperva confirmed that its systems were able to repel the attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2019
Experts at Intezer researchers have spotted a strain of the Linux mining that also scans the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep. Researchers at Intezer have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet, that also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP servers vulnerable to the Bluekeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708). […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2019
Stock trading service Robinhood announced that the passwords of a number of users were stored in plaintext, the company is informing impacted ones. Stock trading service Robinhood admitted to have stored passwords of a number of users in plain text, the company is informing impacted ones via email. “When you set a password for your […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2019
A new wave of cyber attacks carried out by a China-linked APT group hit German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel and others. On Wednesday, German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel along with a host of others confirmed they had been targeted by a wave of cyber attacks. German media reported that the cyber attacks were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2019
The Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and is instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. The Federal Trade Commission fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The authorities are also instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. In April 2018, Facebook revealed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2019
Three Romanian men who have been sentenced to prison for a fraud scheme totaling more than $21 million. US authorities have sentenced to prison three Romanian men who hacked US servers and used them in a fraud scheme that totaled more than $21 million. The men are Teodor Laurentiu Costea, Robert Codrut Dumitrescu, and Cosmin […]
