Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2021
Researchers from Microsoft are warning that the number of monthly web shell attacks has doubled since last year. Microsoft reported that the number of monthly web shell attacks has almost doubled since last year, its experts observed an average of 140,000 of these software installs on servers on a monthly basis, while in 2020 they […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2021
Security expert Dhiraj Mishra analyzed the popular instant messaging app Telegram and identified some failures in terms of handling the users’ data. Summary: While understanding the implementation of various security and privacy measures in Telegram, I identified that telegram fails again in terms of handling the users data. My initial study started with understanding how self-destructing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2021
An expert released a free decryption tool for the Avaddon ransomware, but operators quickly updated malware code to make it inefficient. The Spanish student Javier Yuste has released a free decryption tool for the Avaddon ransomware that can be used by the victims to recover their encrypted files for free. Yuste is a student at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2021
An international operation conducted by Ukraine’s police, along with the US and Australia peers, shut down the world’s largest phishing Service U-Admin. Last week, an international operation conducted by Ukraine’s police, along with the US and Australian authorities, lead to the shut down of the world’s phishing framework U-Admin. The National Police and its Main […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2021
Microsoft implements alerts for ‘nation-state activity’ in the Defender for Office 365 dashboard, to allow organizations to quickly respond. Since 2016, Microsoft has been alerting users of nation-state activity, now the IT giant added the same service to the Defender for Office 365 dashboard. The new security alert will notify companies when their employees are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2021
Pinellas Sheriff revealed that attackers tried to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, by a factor of more than 100, in the Oldsmar’s water supply. The scenario described by Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is disconcerting, an attacker attempted to raise levels of sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, by a factor of more than 100, in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2021
Some commercial Nespresso machines that are used in Europe could be hacked to add unlimited funds to purchase coffee. Some Nespresso Pro machines in Europe could be hacked to add unlimited funds to purchase coffee. The attack is possible because the machines use a smart card payment system that leverages insecure technology, the MIFARE Classic smart […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2021
The number of vulnerabilities discovered in industrial control system (ICS) products surged in 2020, security firm Claroty reports. According to a report published by the industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty that focuses on the second half of 2020, the number of flaws discovered in industrial control system (ICS) products in 2020 (893 flaws) was 24,72% higher […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2021
Critical flaws in the Realtek RTL8195A Wi-Fi module could have been exploited to gain root access and take over devices’ wireless communications. Researchers from Israeli IoT security firm Vdoo found six vulnerabilities in the Realtek RTL8195A Wi-Fi module that could have been exploited to gain root access and take control of a device’s wireless communications. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2021
Google removed the popular The Great Suspender from the official Chrome Web Store for containing malware and deactivated it from the users’ PC. Google on Thursday removed The Great Suspender extension from the Chrome Web Store. Million of users have installed the popular Chrome extension, the IT giant also took the proactive measure of deactivating it from […]
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