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Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2019
Nepal police arrested more than 100 Chinese nationals over a suspected cyber scam, this is the largest-ever operation involving foreigners. Nepal authorities have arrested more than 100 Chinese nationals that were in the country on tourist visas, they are suspected to be involved in a cyber scam. The Nepal police conducted a coordinated operation that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2019
NVIDIA released a security update for the Windows NVIDIA GeForce Experience app that addresses CVE-2019-5702 high severity flaw. NVIDIA addresses a high severity vulnerability (CVE-2019-5702) in Windows NVIDIA GeForce Experience (GFE) app that could be exploited by local attackers to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition or escalate privileges on systems running the vulnerable […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2019
Authorities in Thailand are investigating a cyber attack that resulted in the broadcast of surveillance video from inside a prison in the country’s south. Local media reported that hackers broke into the surveillance system at Lang Suan prison in the southern province of Chumphon, the video was broadcast live on YouTube for several hours. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2019
Experts spotted a new strain of the Ryuk Ransomware that was developed to avoid encrypting folders commonly seen in *NIX operating systems. Recently the City of New Orleans was the victim of ransomware attack, researchers from the BleepingComputer community revealed that the malware that infected the City’s systems was the Ryuk Ransomware. The experts found on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2019
Google addressed a new set of vulnerabilities, dubbed Magellan 2.0, that could be exploited for remote code execution inside the Chrome browser. Google has fixed five SQLite vulnerabilities, dubbed Magellan 2.0, that could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute malicious code inside the Chrome browser. The vulnerabilities were discovered by researchers from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2019
A flaw in the Twitter app for Android could have been exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information or take over an account. Twitter has recently addressed a security vulnerability that affected the Android version of the app, it could have been exploited by hackers to access sensitive information of the users (direct messages, protected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2019
A new Mozi P2P botnet is actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. Security experts from 360 Netlab spotted a new Mozi P2P botnet that is actively targeting Netgear, D-Link, and Huawei routers by probing for weak Telnet passwords to compromise them. According to the researchers, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2019
A new cyber attack hit the radio network Entercom, this is the second time the company has suffered a similar security incident in a few months. A cyber attack hit the radio network Entercom, the incident has impacted the back-office functions and in some cases, the stations were apparently forced to run recorded programs. Entercom […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2019
Maze ransomware operators have released 2GB of files that were allegedly stolen from the City of Pensacola during the recent attack. On December 7, 2019, the city of Pensacola has been hit by a ransomware attack, the city was forced to disconnect most of its systems following the attack that impacted emails, telephone lines, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2019
A popular mobile app in the Middle East called ToTok has been removed from both Apple and Google’s online stores because it was a spy tool. According to a report published by the New York Times, the popular app ToTok was used by the UAE government as a surveillance tool. It has been removed from […]
