Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2020
Earlier this year, Indonesia joined the ranks with the first four ASEAN countries including Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand to have enacted laws relating to personal data protection. On January 28th, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information Technology announced that the final draft for the Personal Data Protection Act has been submitted to the president […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2020
Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed a security breach, hackers stole $150 million from its hot wallets. Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed a major security incident, the hackers breached its hot wallets and stole all the funds, around $150 million. Deposits and withdrawals have been temporarily suspended while the company is investigating the security incident. “We […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2020
Twitter is warning developers that their API keys, access tokens, and access token secrets may have been exposed in a browser’s cache. Twitter is sending emails to developers to warn them that their API keys, access tokens, and access token secrets may have been exposed in a browser’s cache. According to the social media firm, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2020
Researchers at Qurium Media Foundation published a report that provides insight on how Sandvine DPI performs the blocking, and how it can be detected. Sandvine has during recent years become infamous for its support to Internet repressive regimes, such as Belarus, Azerbaijan, Egypt, where its DPI equipment is used to block independent media and human rights organizations. This […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2020
The popular encrypted email service Tutanota was hit with a series of DDoS attacks this week targeting its website fist and its DNS providers later. Encrypted email service, Tutanota suffered a series of DDoS attacks that initially targeted the website and later its DNS providers. The company currently has over 2 million users, some of them were not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2020
Personal details of hundreds of users of dating sites were exposed online earlier this month. An Elasticsearch server containing personal details of hundreds of thousands of dating site users were exposed online without authentication. The unsecured database was discovered by security researchers from vpnMentor at the end of August. “vpnMentor’s research team recently received a report from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2020
The INVDoS (Bitcoin Inventory Out-of-Memory Denial-of-Service)Attack would have allowed hackers to crash Bitcoin nodes and alternative chains. Two years ago, the Bitcoin protocol engineer Braydon Fuller. discovered a major uncontrolled memory resource consumption denial-of-service vulnerability (INVDoS), tracked as CVE-2018-17145, that affected the peer-to-peer network code of three implementations of Bitcoin and other blockchains, including Litecoin, Namecoin, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2020
Slovak cryptocurrency exchange ETERBASE disclosed a security breach, hackers stole cryptocurrency funds worth $5.4 million. Slovak cryptocurrency exchange ETERBASE disclosed a security breach, the hackers stole Bitcoin, Ether, ALGO, Ripple, Tezos, and TRON assets worth $5.4 million. The company disclosed the hack on Thursday, threat actors have stolen various cryptocurrencies from its hot wallets, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2020
US DoJ filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize 280 Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) accounts containing funds allegedly stolen by North Korea-linked hackers The US DoJ has filed a civil forfeiture complaint with the intent to seize control over 280 Bitcoin and Ethereum accounts that are believed to be holding funds which are the proceeds of hacking campaigns […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2020
A new variant of the infamous Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware has been updated to targets Linux devices. Security researchers from Sophos have spotted a new variant of the Lemon_Duck cryptomining malware that has been updated to compromise Linux machines via SSH brute force attacks. The new variant also exploits SMBGhost bug in Windows systems, and is also able to target servers running Redis […]
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