Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2020
7 VPN services left data of millions of users exposed online

vpnMentor experts reported that seven Virtual Private Network (VPN)  recently left 1.2 terabytes of private user data exposed to online. Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered a group of seven free VPN (virtual private network) apps that left their server unsecured online exposing private user data for anyone to see.  The impacted VPN services are UFO […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2020
Personal data of thousands of users from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US, Singapore exposed in bitcoin scam

Group-IB discovered thousands of personal records of users from multiple countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has discovered thousands of personal records of users from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US, Singapore, Spain, Malaysia and other countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2020
CryptoCore hacker group stole over $200M from cryptocurrency exchanges

The CryptoCore hacker group that is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe has stolen around $200 million from online cryptocurrency exchanges. Experts from ClearSky states that a hacker group tracked as CryptoCore, which is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe, has stolen around $200 million from cryptocurrency exchanges. The CryptoCore group, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2020
Norway suspends its COVID-19 contact tracing app due to privacy concerns

Norway’s health authorities announced the suspension of the design of a COVID-19 contact tracing app due to privacy concerns. In April, Norway launched its contact tracing app dubbed Smittestopp (“Infection stop”) to trace the diffusion of the COVID-19 in the country. A contact tracing app is a tool that could be used to contain new […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2020
Tech firms suspend use of ‘biased’ facial recognition technology

Amazon, IBM and now Microsoft ban the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments and are urging for federal laws to regulate its use. Microsoft has joined Amazon and IBM in banning the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments, the tech giants are also urging for federal laws to regulate the use […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2020
Microsoft discovers cryptomining campaign targeting Kubeflow tool for Kubernetes clusters

Microsoft’s Azure Security Center (ASC) is warning of a hacking campaign that targets Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes. Hackers are targeting Kubeflow servers with administration panel exposed online, Microsoft warns. The tech giant has released a report today detailing a novel series of attacks against Kubeflow, a toolkit for deploying machine learning (ML) […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2020
Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users raising privacy concerns

A researcher is warning that Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users raising serious privacy concerns. Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users that could be abused by threat actors for malicious activities. Even if Google Search only revealed the phone numbers and not the identities of associated users, ill-intentioned attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2020
Hackers hijacked Coincheck ‘s domain registrar account and targeted some users

Hackers hijacked one of the domains of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and used it for spear-phishing attacks. The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. Then the attackers used the hijacked domain to launch spear-phishing attacks against […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2020
Tor Browser 9.5 is available for download, with new interesting features

Tor Browser 9.5 includes important security updates to Firefox, users on desktop will be able to opt-in for using onion sites automatically whenever the website makes them available.  Starting with the release of Tor Browser 9.5, new features will make accessing onion addresses easier.  Now, there is also an opt-in mechanism available for websites that want Tor […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2020
Hangzhou could permanently adopt COVID-19 contact-tracing app

The City of Hangzhou is planning to make a contact tracing system developed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic permanent for its citizens. Hangzhou, one of the major tech hubs in China, is planning to permanently use the tracking system developed to fight the COVID-19 outbreak. The city’s health commission declared that the permanent version of […]