Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2019
The giant of aluminum producers, Norway’s Norsk Hydro, announced on Tuesday that it had been hit by a cyber-attack of unknown origin. One of the biggest Aluminum producer, the Norwegian Norsk Hydro, suffered an extensive cyber attack. “Hydro became victim of an extensive cyberattack in the early hours of Tuesday, impacting operations in several of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2019
PaloAlto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is targeting IoT devices belonging to businesses. Researchers at PaloAlto Networks spotted a new variant of the infamous Mirai botnet is targeting IoT devices belonging to businesses. Mirai malware first appeared in the wild in 2016 when the expert MalwareMustDie discovered it in massive attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2019
UK intelligence agency GCHQ released emulators for World War II cipher machines (Enigma, Typex and The Bombe) that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef UK intelligence agency GCHQ, as part of the celebration of its centenary, has released emulators for World War II cipher machines that can be executed in the encryption app […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, when teenager, was a member of the popular Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group. According to a report published by Reuters on Friday, the Texas Democrat that is entering the race for president, when teenager, was a member of the popular Cult of the Dead Cow hacker group. Democratic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2019
Experts uncovered a watering hole attack against the Pakistani Govt’s passport application tracking site, hackers used the Scanbox Framework to steal visitors’ data. Security experts at Trustwave have shared their findings of a recent data breach suffered by a Pakistani government website. The attackers used the Scanbox Framework, the intrusion is similar to another attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2019
Google recently shared details about its efforts against malicious advertisement, the giant took down 2.3 billion bad ads last year. Google revealed that it took down 2.3 billion bad ads in 2018, including 58.8 million phishing ads for violation of its policies. Google introduced 31 new ads policies in 2018, aiming at protecting users from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2019
The hacker gnosticplayers is offering the fourth batch of millions of records stolen from 6 new websites for sale on the dark web. Gnosticplayers is back with the fourth round of hacked accounts offered for sale on the dark web. In February, the hacker who goes by online with the moniker Gnosticplayers disclosed the existence of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2019
Experts at the 360 Threat Intelligence Center uncovered a new malspam campaign that leverages the tragic Boeing 737 Max crash to spread malware. Crooks always attempt to exploit the attention of the people on the events that made the headlines. In the last days, two events captured the attention of the media, the New Zealand […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2019
Threat actors targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Over the past months, threat actors have targeted Office 365 and G Suite cloud accounts using the IMAP protocol to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). Experts at Proofpoint conducted an interesting study of massive attacks against accounts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2019
Several threat actors are still exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability in the popular compression software WinRAR. Several threat actors are actively exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability recently addressed in WinRAR. The exploitation of the flaw in the wild is worrisome because the WinRAR software doesn’t have an auto-update feature, leaving millions of […]
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