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Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2018
Proofpoint uncovered a massive malspam campaign leveraging emails delivering weaponized PDF documents containing malicious SettingContent-ms files. Security experts from Proofpoint have uncovered a massive malspam campaign, crooks sent hundreds of thousands of emails delivering weaponized PDF documents containing malicious SettingContent-ms files. Experts attributed the malspam campaign to the cybercriminal group tracked as TA505, the attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2018
Microsoft has addressed a serious vulnerability in the Microsoft Translator Hub that could be exploited to delete any or all the projects hosted by the service. Microsoft has fixed a severe vulnerability in the Microsoft Translator Hub that could be exploited to delete any or all projects hosted by the service. The Microsoft Translator Hub “empowers businesses and communities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a precursor of the infamous Proton macOS malware that was named Calisto. Malware researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a malware, tracked as Calisto, that appears to be to the precursor of the Proton macOS malware. “We recently came across one such sample: a macOS backdoor that we named Calisto. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2018
F5 experts observed a spike in the attacks in the days prior to the Trump-Putin meeting on July 16 that was held in Helsinki, Finland. Important events represent an element of attraction for cyber attacks, in June we discussed the Trump-Kim summit and the way Singapore that held it was hit by an unprecedented number of attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2018
SingHealth, the largest healthcare group in Singapore, suffered a massive data breach that exposed 1.5 Million patient records. The largest healthcare group in Singapore, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed personal information of 1.5 million patients who visited the clinics of the company between May 2015 and July 2018. Stolen records include […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2018
The popular Anarchy botmaster builds a botnet of 18,000 Huawei routers in a few hours, and it is also planning to target vulnerable Realtek routers. NewSky Security first reported the born a new huge botnet, in just one day the botmaster compromised more than 18,000 Huawei routers. NewSky security researcher Ankit Anubhav announced that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2018
Positive Technologies discovered two flaws affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuums that can be used to perform video surveillance. Security researchers from Positive Technologies have discovered two vulnerabilities affecting Dongguan Diqee 360 smart vacuum cleaners that could be exploited by an attacker to run malicious code on a device with superuser privileges. The flaws likely affect smart vacuum cleaners […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2018
The cybersecurity firm Group-IB is involved in the incident response on an attack on the Russian PIR Bank conducted by MoneyTaker hacking group. MoneyTaker hacker group has stolen 1 million US dollars from the Russian bank, the cyber heist occurred on July 3 through the Russian Central Bank’s Automated Workstation Client (an interbank fund transfer system similar […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2018
Microsoft helped the US Government is protecting at least three 2018 midterm election candidates from attacks of Russian cyberspies. Microsoft revealed that Russian cyberspies attempted to hack at least three 2018 midterm election candidates and it has helped the US government to repeal their attacks. A Microsoft executive speaking at the Aspen Security Forum revealed the hacking attempts against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2018
British Airways canceled flights at Heathrow due to an ‘IT system issue,’ the incident occurred on Wednesday and affected thousands of passengers. The problem had severe repercussions on the air traffic, many passengers also had their flights delayed. “On one of the busiest days of the summer, British Airways cancelled dozens of flights to and from Heathrow, […]
