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Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2020

City of Potsdam offline following a cyberattack

The City of Potsdam suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, but emergency services were not impacted. The German City of Potsdam has suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, the good news is that emergency services, including the city’s fire department fully operational and payments […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2020

Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack

Chinese hackers have exploited a zero-day vulnerability the Trend Micro OfficeScan antivirus in the recently disclosed hack of Mitsubishi Electric. According to ZDNet, the hackers involved in the attack against the Mitsubishi Electric have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Trend Micro OfficeScan to infect company servers. This week, Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a security breach that might have […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2020

For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks

The Greek government announced that a DDoS cyber attack hit the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries. Yesterday the Greek government announced that the official websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were hit by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2020

Expert released DOS Exploit PoC for Critical Windows RDP Gateway flaws

Danish security researcher Ollypwn has released DOS exploit PoC for critical vulnerabilities in the Windows RDP Gateway. The Danish security researcher Ollypwn has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) denial of service exploit for the CVE-2020-0609 and CVE-2020-0610 vulnerabilities in the Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway) component on Windows Server (2012, 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019) devices. A Remote Desktop Gateway server is typically […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2020

NK CARROTBALL dropper used in attacks on U.S. Govn Agency

A US Government agency was hit with a phishing attack attempting to deliver a new malware dropper dubbed CARROTBALL. Security experts at Palo Alto Networks have uncovered a new malware dropper called CARROTBALL that was used in targeted attacks against a U.S. government agency and non-US foreign nationals. Experts attribute the attack to the Konni […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2020

Malware attack took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library

System supporting libraries in Volusia County were hit by a cyber attack, the incident took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library (VCPL) branches. 600 staff and public access computers were taken down at Volusia County Public Library (VCPL) branches in Daytona Beach, Florida, following a cyberattack. The attack started around 7 AM on […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2020

Jeff Bezos phone was hacked by Saudi crown prince

The phone of the Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos was hacked in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal account of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. In April 2019, Gavin de Becker, the investigator hired by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos to investigate into the release of his intimate images revealed that Saudi Arabian authorities […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2020

OP Glowing Symphony – How US military claims to have disrupted ISIS ‘s propaganda

US military claims to have disrupted the online propaganda activity of the Islamic State (ISIS) in a hacking operation dating back at least to 2016. In 2016, the US Cyber Command carried out successful operations against the online propaganda of the Islamic State (ISIS), this is what emerged from declassified national security top-secret documents released […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2020

Yomi Hunter Catches the CurveBall

Yomi implements detection for CurveBall exploits and also supports CVE-2020-0601 exploit detection even for signed Powershell modules. The recent CurveBall vulnerability shook the Info-Sec community worldwide: a major vulnerability reported directly by the US National Security Agency. Such uncommon vulnerability reporter alerted the whole Industry, CVE-2020-0601 quickly conquered most of the headlines. The reason for this unusual outreach […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2020

US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach

The US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson has disclosed a data breach that affected its customers. The US-based children’s clothing maker and online retailer Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach, attackers planted an e-skimmer on its e-commerce platform. Like other Magecart attacks, crooks compromised the online store and injected a JavaScript code into checkout pages to […]

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City of Potsdam offline following a cyberattack

Chinese hackers exploited a Trend Micro antivirus zero-day used in Mitsubishi Electric hack

For the second time in a few days, Greek Government websites hit by DDoS attacks

Expert released DOS Exploit PoC for Critical Windows RDP Gateway flaws

NK CARROTBALL dropper used in attacks on U.S. Govn Agency

Malware attack took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library

Jeff Bezos phone was hacked by Saudi crown prince

OP Glowing Symphony – How US military claims to have disrupted ISIS ‘s propaganda

Yomi Hunter Catches the CurveBall

US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach

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