Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2019
According to Sectigo, most of the certificates used to sign the malware submitted to VirusTotal and issued by the company were expired and were already revoked. This week experts at Chronicle published a study on signed malware registered on VirusTotal that states that most of the digital certificates used to sign malware samples found on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2019
European law enforcement seized and shut down Bestmixer.io for reportedly laundering over $200 million in cryptocurrency. This week the Europol has dealt another blow to cybercrime, the European police along with the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), and Luxembourg authorities shut down Bestmixer.io, on one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency mixing services. A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2019
Snapchat internal staff has allegedly abused their role in the company to spy on Snapchat users using and internal tools and steal data. Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app that makes pictures, videos, and messages (snaps) available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. Initially, it was only allowing person-to-person photo sharing, but now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2019
Social network giant Facebook revealed it recently disabled billions of accounts operated by “bad actors” and that five percent of active accounts are fake. The news is disconcerting, but sincerely not so surprising, Facebook announced it recently disabled billions of accounts operated by “bad actors” and that five percent of its active accounts are fake. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2019
Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2019
Security researchers from SRLabs have published a report that analyzed the risks for Ethereum network caused by unpatched Ethereum clients. Researchers at SRLabs published a report based on ethernodes.org data, that revealed that a large number of nodes using the popular clients Parity and Geth is still unpatched. The expert discovered that the Ethereum clients and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2019
Twitter confirmed revealed that a bug in its iOS app it the root cause for an inadvertent collection of location data and sharing it with a third-party. A new story of a violation of the user’s privacy made the lines, Twitter revealed that due to a bug is collected and shared iOS location data with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Facebook sues South Korean data analytics firm Rankwave over alleged data misuse and violation of social network’s rules. Facebook filed a lawsuit against Rankwave in a California State court in Silicon Valley to verify if the analytics firm is violating the rules of the social network giant. Facebook is asking the court to audit the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2019
The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority fined Facebook $270,000 for the Photo API bug that exposed personal photos of 300,000 Turkish users. The Turkish Personal Data Protection Authority (KVKK) has fined Facebook 1.65 million Turkish lira ($270,000) for the Photo API bug that exposed personal photos of 300,000 Turkish users. In December, Facebook announced that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
Hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin from Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange The hack of another cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin (over 7,000 bitcoins) from Binance. Binance is one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, its founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed that the […]
