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Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 198 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Collection #1 Data Breach Analysis – Part 1 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2019
South Korea: hackers compromised Defense Acquisition Program Administration PCs

South Korea – Allegedstate-sponsored hackers compromised 10 PCs at ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration. Unknown hackers compromised 10 PCs at ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration which is the office that manages the military procurement. The news was confirmed by the South Korea Ministry of National Defense. “It has been turned out that 30 computers installed […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 196 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Blur data leak potentially exposed data of 2.4 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2019
Alleged Iran-linked APT groups behind global DNS Hijacking campaign

Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. Security experts at FireEye uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting government agencies, ISPs and other telecommunications providers, Internet infrastructure entities, and sensitive commercial organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, North America and Europe. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2019
NSA will reveal its GHIDRA Reverse Engineering tool at RSA Conference

The National Security Agency (NSA) will release at the next RSA Conference a free reverse engineering framework called GHIDRA. GHIDRA is a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that runs on major OSs (Windows, macOS, and Linux). The framework was first mentioned in the CIA Vault 7 dump that was leaked in 2017. WikiLeaks obtained thousands of files allegedly […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2018
Personal details of roughly 1000 North Korean defectors leaked in hacking case.

Personal details of roughly 1,000 North Korean defectors living in South Korea have been leaked in a hacking case. Personal details of nearly 1,000 North Korean defectors were leaked as a result of a cyber attack exposing them to severe threats from Pyongyang. A similar incident has never happened before, the Unification Ministry said that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 193 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Twitter fixed bug could have exposed Direct Messages […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2018
US DoJ indicts Chinese hackers over state-sponsored cyber espionage

The US Department of Justice charged two Chinese hackers for hacking numerous companies and government agencies in a dozen countries, US Indicts Two Chinese Government Hackers Over Global Hacking Campaign. including Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The two Chinese hackers, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2018
Alleged Chinese-hackers accessed thousands of EU diplomatic cables

According to a report published by the New York Times, alleged China-linked hackers accessed thousands of sensitive EU diplomatic cables. The New York Times revealed that alleged Chinese state-sponsored hackers accessed thousands of sensitive EU diplomatic cables from the EU’s diplomatic missions around the world. The hackers carried out spear-phishing attacks aimed at EU officials […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2018
Czech cyber-security agency warns over Huawei, ZTE security threat

A Czech cyber-security agency is warning against using Huawei and ZTE technologies because they pose a threat to state security. The Chinese nightmare is rapidly spreading among European countries, now a Czech cyber-security agency is warning against using the equipment manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE because they pose a threat to state security. […]