Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2020
The Sodinokibi ransomware gang stolen gigabytes of legal documents from the law firm of the stars, Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks (GSMLaw). The Sodinokibi ransomware group claims to have stolen gigabytes of legal documents from the entertainment and law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks (GSMLaw) that has dozens of international stars and celebrities among […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2020
Microsoft confirmed that it is investigating claims that its GitHub account has been hacked after some of its files were leaked online. Microsoft launched an investigation into the claims that its GitHub account has been hacked. Recently some files allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Github account have been leaked online, and they appear to be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2020
Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, observed the growth of the lifespan of phishing attacks in the second half of 2019. This trend, revealed by Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB), resulted in the tremendous increase in the number of phishing websites blockages over the given period — it rose by over 230 percent year-on-year. In 2019 in general, web […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2020
Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) shuts down a large portion of its central IT infrastructure between May 6 and May 7, 2020. The Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), German, announced today that it was forced to shut down parts of its central IT infrastructure due to a cyber attack that took place overnight, between May 6 and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2020
Cisco addresses tens of flaws in multiple products, including 12 high severity issues in Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense. Cisco released security updates to address 34 flaws in multiple products, including 12 high severity vulnerabilities that affect Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). Most of the vulnerabilities fixed by Cisco […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2020
Attackers exploited two security issues in the Elementor Pro and Ultimate Addons for Elementor WordPress plugins to fully compromise over 1M sites. Hackers are actively exploiting two security flaws in the Elementor Pro and Ultimate Addons for Elementor WordPress plugins to fully compromise unpatched WordPress installs. Security experts from Wordfence have observed a hacking campaign targeting the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2020
Samsung addressed this month a critical 0-click vulnerability that was discovered by security researchers from Google. Samsung released this week a security patch that addresses a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-8899, impacting all smartphones sold since 2014. The flaw is tracked as SVE-2020-16747 in the Samsung security bulletin. “A possible memory overwrite vulnerability in Quram […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2020
Europol arrested five members of the Infinity Black hacker group that were selling stolen user credentials and hacking tools. Europol announced another success in the fight against cybercrime, today it has arrested five Polish hackers who were members of the Infinity Black hacking group. The joint operation coordinated by the Europol, saw the participation of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2020
Level up Your Security Program With the Same Security Intelligence Used by the World’s Largest Governments and Many of the Fortune 1000 Recorded Future, the largest global security intelligence provider, today released a free browser extension that helps prioritize SIEM alerts and vulnerability patching, in addition to providing enhanced malware analysis. With this release, Recorded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2020
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for the recently fixed CVE-2020-1967 denial-of-service (DoS) issue in OpenSSL has been made public. Recently, the OpenSSL Project released a security update for OpenSSL that patches a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1967, that can be exploited by attackers to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The CVE-2020-1967 vulnerability has been described as a […]
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