Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2020
The financial technology firm Finastra announced it has suffered a ransomware attack that took down its some of its systems. Finastra, the UK leading financial technology provider, announced that some of its servers were shut down in response to a ransomware attack that the company detected. Finastra provides financial software and services to more than 9,000 customers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2020
Orange Cyberdefense’s Epidemiology Lab has published a report on cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector. While COVID-19 infections around the world are exploding, cyber threat actors are trying to capitalise on this global health crisis by creating malwares or launching attacks with a COVID-19 theme. Last week, a COVID-19 testing centre was hit by a cyberattack, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2020
Experts warn of scanning activity conducted by Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group, hackers are searching for vulnerable mail servers. According to security researchers from Trend Micro, the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group has been scanning vulnerable email servers for more than a year. The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, Sednit, and STRONTIUM) has been active since at least 2007 and it has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2020
Pwn2Own 2020 Day 2 -Participants earned a total of $90,000 for exploits targeting Oracle VirtualBox, Adobe Reader and Windows. The Coronavirus outbreak hasn’t stopped the Pwn2Own hacking conference, for the first time its organizer, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), has decided to arrange the event allowing the participants to remotely demonstrate their exploits. Day 2 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2020
A new variant of the TrickBot malware is targeting telecommunications organizations in the United States and Hong Kong. Security experts from Bitdefender recently discovered a new TrickBot variant that is targeting telecommunications organizations in the United States and Hong Kong. TrickBot is a popular banking Trojan that has been around since October 2016, its authors have continuously […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2020
During the first day of the Pwn2Own 2020 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $180,000 for exploits targeting Windows 10, Ubuntu Desktop and macOS. The Coronavirus outbreak hasn’t stopped the Pwn2Own hacking conference, for the first time its organizer, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), has decided to arrange the event allowing the participants to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2020
The Coronavirus-themed attacks continue to increase, experts warn of thousands of COVID-19 scam and malware sites are being created every day. Crooks and nation-state actors continue to exploit the interest of potential victims in the Coronavirus outbreak. In recent weeks, we observed that threat actors are creating thousands of coronavirus-themed websites on a daily basis. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2020
Adobe has released a collection of out-of-band software updates that address a total of 41 vulnerabilities in six of its products. Adobe has released a set of out-of-band software updates that address a total of 41 vulnerabilities in six of its products. “Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS.” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2020
Trend Micro has addressed several serious vulnerabilities in its products, including two flaws that have been exploited in the wild. Trend Micro has released security updates to address several serious flaws in its Worry-Free Business Security, Apex One and OfficeScan products, including a couple of vulnerabilities that have been exploited by threat actors in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2020
The online guitar tutoring website TrueFire was compromised by hackers in a classic Magecart style attack that exposed customers’ payment card data. The popular online guitar tutoring website TrueFire has suffered a ‘Magecart‘ style security breach that might have exposed customers’ personal information and payment card data. TrueFire has over 1 million users, its customer could […]
