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Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2019
United Airlines opted to cover every camera in entertainment systems embedded within the back of plane seats in response to privacy concerns. Flying on United Airlines planes it is possible to find cameras included in screen and entertainment products used by the airline and mounted in the back of the seats. “A viral photo showing a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2019
Researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a malware campaign distributing a new Emotet Trojan variant that compromises devices and uses them as Proxy C2 servers. Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Emotet Trojan that is able to infect devices and use them as proxy command-and-control servers. The new variant also employs random URI […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2019
vpnMentor’s research team discovered a hack affecting 80 million US households, and the incident is still actively leaking data. Known hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered an unprotected database impacting up to 65% of US households. Hosted by a Microsoft cloud server, the 24 GB database includes the number of people living in each household […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2019
A cyber survey conducted by the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed that ‘123456’ is still the most hacked password. Security experts at the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) analyzed the 100,000 most-commonly re-occurring breached passwords using data from Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). Have I Been Pwned allows users to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2019
The Hong Kong office of Amnesty International has been hit by a long-running cyberattack carried out by China-linked hackers. Amnesty International’s Hong Kong office has been hit with a cyberattack launched by China-linked hackers. “This sophisticated cyber-attack underscores the dangers posed by state-sponsored hacking and the need to be ever vigilant to the risk of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2019
Microsoft presented a series of security enhancements for its Windows 10, including the removal of the password-expiration policy. Microsoft announced the removal of the password-expiration policy from its operating system starting with the next Windows 10 feature update (Windows 10 version 1903, a.k.a., “19H1” ) and Windows Server version 1903. The idea behind this change […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2019
Researchers devised a new side-channel attack in Qualcomm technology, widely used by most Android smartphones, that could expose private keys. Researchers have uncovered a new side-channel attack that could be exploited by attackers to extract sensitive data from Qualcomm secure keystore, including private keys, and passwords. The attack potentially impacts most of the modern Android […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2019
Experts observed several malspam campaigns using signed emails to deliver the GootKit banking Trojan (aka talalpek or Xswkit). Threat actors leverage a multi-stage malware loader tracked as JasperLoader in the malspam campaigns over the past few months. The JasperLoader was observed while distributing malware to targets from Central Europe, most of them in Italy and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! 60 Million records of LinkedIn users exposed online INPIVX hidden service, a new way to organize ransomware attacks Ride-Hailing Company operating in Iran exposes data of Iranian Drivers A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2019
A new variant of the AESDDoS bot is exploiting a recent vulnerability in the Atlassian collaborative software Confluence. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new variant of AESDDoS botnet that is exploiting a recently discovered vulnerability in the Atlassian collaborative software Confluence. The flaw exploited in the attacks, tracked as CVE-2019-3396, is a […]
