Security Affairs newsletter Round 228

7 years ago

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let…

80 defendants charged with participating in massive BEC and romance scams

7 years ago

DOJ charged 80 people, most of them are Nigerian nationals, with participating in massive BEC and romance scams that collected…

Internal Revenue Service warns taxpayers of a malware campaign

7 years ago

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning of an active IRS impersonation scam campaign sending spam emails to distribute malware.…

Experts uncovered a hacking campaign targeting several WordPress Plugins

7 years ago

Researchers at Wordfence reported an ongoing hacking campaign exploiting security flaws in some WordPress plugins. Researchers from Wordfence uncovered an…

Cisco released 4CAN hardware tool to find flaws in automotive computers

7 years ago

Cisco has released a hardware tool, called 4CAN, developed to help researchers to discover vulnerabilities in automotive systems.  Computer systems…

Hacker will compensate victims with $1.1 million Bitcoin illegally earned

7 years ago

UK authorities have seized over £920,000 ($1.1 million) worth of Bitcoin from a prolific hacker, the funds will be used…

Buffer overflow exposes unpatched Squid servers to RCE and DoS attacks

7 years ago

Some versions of the Squid web proxy cache server built with Basic Authentication features are affected by a heap buffer…

Mastercard data breach affected Priceless Specials loyalty program

7 years ago

Mastercard disclosed a data breach that impacted customer data from the company's Priceless Specials loyalty program. The American multinational financial services corporation…

Lenovo Solution Centre flaw allows hacking Windows laptop in 10 minutes

7 years ago

Researchers at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) tracked as CVE-2019-6177. Security experts…

A new variant of Asruex Trojan exploits very old Office, Adobe flaws

7 years ago

Experts at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft Office and Adobe vulnerabilities…

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