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Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2020
Interpol: Goldfish Alpha operation reduces cryptojacking by 78%

An operation coordinated by Interpol, dubbed Goldfish Alpha, dismantled an illegal cryptocurrency network operating in Southeast Asia Interpol announced that it has coordinated a successful international operation aimed at removing cryptocurrency miners that infected routers located in Southeast Asia. The operation sees the contribution of Trend Micro, law enforcement and CERTs from ASEAN countries, including […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2020
Mozilla addresses CVE-2019-17026 Firefox Zero-Day exploited in targeted attacks

Mozilla has released security updates for Firefox browser that address a zero-day flaw (CVE-2019-17026) that has been exploited in targeted attacks. Mozilla has released security updates to address a critical Firefox browser zero-day issue (CVE-2019-17026) that has been exploited in targeted attacks. The CVE-2019-17026 flaw is an “IonMonkey type confusion with StoreElementHole and FallibleStoreElement,” where IonMonkey is the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
The city of Las Vegas announced it has suffered a cyber attack

The city of Las Vegas announced it has suffered a cyber attack that breached its computer systems, it is unclear whether any sensitive data was exposed. Las Vegas officials say a cyber attack breached the city’s computer systems, the attack took place on Tuesday, but it wasn’t immediately clear if any sensitive data was exposed. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
MITRE presents ATT&CK for ICS, a knowledge base for ICS

MITRE announced the initial release of a version of its MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base that focuses on industrial control systems (ICS). MITRE’s ATT&CK framework is becoming a standard in cybersecurity community for the classification of attacker behavior. Now the organization is going to propose a knowledge base that focused on ICS systems for its MITRE’s ATT&CK. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
Security flaws allowed hijacking any TikTok account

A flaw in the popular TikTok app could allow attackers to hijack any user account just by knowing the mobile number of the victim. Security experts from CheckPoint have discovered a critical vulnerability in the popular TikTok app that could be exploited by a remote attacker to hijack any user account just by knowing the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
SNAKE Ransomware is targeting business networks

A new piece of ransomware called SNAKE appeared in threat landscape, the malware is now targeting company networks. The SNAKE is a new ransomware that is threatening enterprises worldwide along with most popular ransomware families such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, LockerGoga, BitPaymer, DoppelPaymer, MegaCortex, LockerGoga. The scary trend sees criminal organizations targeting enterprises, instead of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
Facebook declares war to Deepfake videos

Monika Bickert, Facebook for global policy management, announced that Facebook will ban deepfake videos and manipulated content. Facebook has announced it will ban deepfake videos, which are media that take a person in an existing image or video and replace them with someone else’s likeness using artificial neural networks. Monika Bickert, Facebook vice-president for global policy […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
Medical info of 49,351 patients exposed in Alomere Health hospital breach

Minnesota-based Alomere Health discloses a data leak that exposed personal and medical information of 49,351 patients. Personal and medical information of 49,351 patients of Minnesota-based Alomere Health might have been exposed following the compromise of two employees’ email accounts. Alomere Health is a general medical and surgical hospital in Alexandria, MN, with 127 beds. It is accredited […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
MageCart gang compromised popular Focus Camera website

A new MageCart attack made the headlines, this time the gang compromised the website of popular Focus Camera. The Magecart group has compromised the website of the photography and imaging retailer Focus Camera. The hack took place last year, the hacker planted a software skimmer on the website to steal payment card data of users […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
Google blocks Xiaomi integrations on Nest hub over privacy concerns

Google has recently disabled all Xiaomi smart home integrations on Nest Hub after being informed that some users could access other people’s camera feeds.  On January 1st, 2020, a Reddit user (‘/u/Dio-V’) posted a discussion revealing that Nest Hub was able to access feeds from other Xiaomi cameras. As proof of the issue, the user […]