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Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2017
Experts at Trend Micro reported malware attacks that leveraged the Hangul Word Processor (HWP) word processing application to target users. It has happened again, attackers leveraged the Hangul Word Processor (HWP) word processing application to target users in South Korea. The application is very popular in South Korea and was exploited in several hacking campaigns against entities in the country. In the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2017
It has happened, the information stolen in the recent Equifax data breach is offered for sale on the dark web by crooks, but watch out, they are scammers. Equifax discovered the intrusion on July 29, but only 3 months the agency notified customers the incident (on September 7) that occurred between mid-May and late July. The breach affects […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2017
Security researchers Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers confirmed other 26,000 MongoDB servers were hit in a new wave of ransom attacks. Ransom attacks on MongoDB databases revamped over the weekend after an apparent pause. According to the security researchers Dylan Katz and Victor Gevers, three new groups appeared on the threat landscape and hijacked over 26,000 servers, one of them, in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · Defray Ransomware used in targeted attacks on Education and Healthcare verticals · Security Affairs newsletter Round 125 – News of the week · Tor relay of a Brazilian University was banned after harvesting .onions · Chinese […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2017
Enigma platform hacked – Another cyber heist made the headlines, this time an unknown hacker has stolen more than $471,000 worth of Ethereum cryptocurrency. The hacker has stolen it from the cryptocurrency investment platform, Enigma. According to an announcement made on Enigma website, an “unknown entity” has hacked their website, slack accounts and email newsletter accounts. “WARNING: ENIGMA SLACK […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2017
The Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested a Ukraine man that allegedly distributed the NotPetya/ExPetr malware resulting in the infection of 400 computers. Sergey Neverov, a 51-year-old man, has been arrested, on Saturday 5 August, by Ukrainian Cyber Police on accusations of distributing a version of the NotPetya(Petya.A) ransomware after the initial attack event of late […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2017
The British model Chloe Ayling kidnapped in Italy by an alleged member of the ‘Black Death’ organisation who offered her on the Dark Web The 20-year-old British model Chloe Ayling was kidnapped in Milan, Italy, to be auctioned off on a pornographic website on the dark web. According to the declaration of the model to the Italian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · Apple removed iOS VPN apps from Chinese App Store in compliance to censorship law · Bypassing locking mechanisms of a smart gun with $15 worth of magnets · DEF CON 25 – BBC Micro:bit could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2017
Marcus Hutchins, the expert who discovered the “kill switch” that halted the outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware was detained in Las Vegas after Def Con. Marcus Hutchins, also known as MalwareTech, is the 22-year-old security expert who made the headlines after discovering the “kill switch” that halted the outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware. Marcus Hutchins has been arrested […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. · Expert exploited an unrestricted File Upload flaw in a PayPal Server to remotely execute code · Hacker BestBuy pleads guilty to hijacking more than 900k Deutsche Telekom routers · Security Affairs newsletter Round 120 – News […]
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