Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2020
Google delivered over 33,000 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of attacks from nation-state actors. Google delivered 33,015 alerts to its users during the first three quarters of 2020 to warn them of phishing attacks, launched by nation-state actors, targeting their accounts. Google sent 11,856 government-backed phishing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2020
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to urge organizations to patch CVE-2020-16952 RCE vulnerability in MS SharePoint Server. The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert to warn of the risks of the exploitation for the CVE-2020-16952 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server and urges organizations to address […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2020
The Google Cloud team revealed that in September 2017 it has mitigated DDoS attack that reached 2.54 Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. The Google Cloud team revealed that back in September 2017 it has mitigated a powerful DDoS attack that clocked at 2.54 Tbps. This attack is the largest distributed denial of service attack recorded to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2020
The Tripwire VERT security team spotted almost 800,000 SonicWall VPN appliances exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw. Security experts from the Tripwire VERT security team have discovered 795,357 SonicWall VPN appliances that were exposed online that are vulnerable to the CVE-2020-5135 RCE flaw. “A buffer overflow vulnerability in SonicOS allows a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2020
Puerto Ricoâs firefighting department discloses a security breach, hackers breached its database and demanded $600,000. Puerto Ricoâs firefighting department discloses a security breach, hackers breached its database and demanded a $600,000 ransom. According to the departmentâs director, Alberto Cruz, the ability of the department to respond to emergencies was not impacted by the attack. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2020
The Egregor ransomware gang has hit the game developer Crytek and leaked files allegedly stolen from the systems of the gaming firm Ubisoft. A previously unknown ransomware gang dubbed Egregor has hit the game developer Crytek and leaked files allegedly stolen from the internal network of another leading gaming firm, Ubisoft. A few days ago, the Egregor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2020
U.S. Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble has disclosed a cyber attack and that the threat actors have exposed the customers’ data. Barnes & Noble, Inc., is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States in fifty states. The bookseller also operated the Nook Digital, which is a spin-off division that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2020
Google security researcher discovered Bluetooth vulnerabilities (BleedingTooth) in the Linux kernel that could allow zero-click attacks. Andy Nguyen, a Google security researcher, has found Bluetooth vulnerabilities, referred to as BleedingTooth, in the Linux kernel that could be exploited by attackers to run arbitrary code or access sensitive information. The BleedingTooth flaws are tracked as CVE-2020-12351, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2020
Cisco Talos found several remotely exploitable denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in a Rockwell Automation industrial automation product. A researcher from Cisco Talos released technical details of several remotely exploitable denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in an industrial automation product made by Rockwell Automation. The product affected by the flaw is the Allen-Bradley 1794-AENT Flex I/O series B adapter, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2020
Norway ‘s government blames Russia for the cyber attack that targeted the email system of the country’s parliament in August. Norway ‘s government is blaming Russia for the cyberattack that targeted the email system of the country’s parliament this summer. At the end of August, Norwayâs parliament Stortinget announced that it was the target of a […]
