Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2020
K-Electric, Pakistan’s largest private power company, did not pay the ransom and the Netwalker ransomware operators have leaked the stolen data. In early September, K-Electric (KE), the electricity provider for the city of Karachi, Pakistan, was hit by a Netwalker ransomware attack that blocked billing and online services. K-Electric is the largest power supplier in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2020
Experts found critical security flaws in two popular industrial remote access systems that could be exploited by threat actors for malicious purposes. Security researchers from Israeli firm OTORIO found critical vulnerabilities in leading industrial remote access systems that could be exploited by attackers to ban access to industrial production floors, hack into company networks, tamper […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2020
Twitter removed around 130 Iranian accounts for attempting to disrupt the public recent US Presidential Debate. The social media giant Twitter announced to have removed around 130 Iranian Twitter accounts that attempted to disrupt the public conversation during the recent first Presidential Debate for the US 2020 Presidential Election. The company confirmed that it discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2020
North Korea-linked APT group targeted UN Security Council officials over the past year, states a report from the United Nations organ. A North-Korea-linked cyber espionage group has launched spear-phishing attacks aimed at compromising tens of officials from the United Nations Security Council. The campaign targeted at least 28 UN officials, including at least 11 individuals […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2020
Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. Let’s summarize the criminal activities of the man who was arrested in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2020
More than 247,000 Microsoft Exchange servers are still vulnerable to attacks exploiting the CVE-2020-0688 RCE issue impacting Exchange Server. The CVE-2020-0688 vulnerability resides in the Exchange Control Panel (ECP) component, the root cause of the problem is that Exchange servers fail to properly create unique keys at install time. âKnowledge of a the validation key allows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2020
The Swiss watchmaker giant Swatch Group shut down its systems over the weekend because it was the victim of a cyber attack Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group shut down its IT systems in response to a cyber attack that hit its infrastructure over the weekend. The company turned off its systems to avoid other systems on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2020
Cisco addressed two actively exploited DoS vulnerabilities that reside in the IOS XR software that runs on multiple carrier-grade routers. Cisco addressed two high severity memory exhaustion DoS vulnerabilities that reside in the IOS XR Network OS that runs on multiple carrier-grade routers. The company confirmed that both vulnerabilities are actively exploited in attacks in the wild. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2020
US-based Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG)Â insurance giant disclosed a ransomware attack, the security breach took place on Saturday. US-based Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG)Â global insurance brokerage firm confirmed that it was his with a ransomware attack on Saturday, September 26. The company did not provide technical details about the attack, it is not clear how the ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2020
The FBI and the US CISA issued a joint public service announcement about the threat of disinformation campaigns targeting the 2020 USÂ election. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint public service announcement to warn of the threat of disinformation campaigns targeting the upcoming 2020 […]
