Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2022
The Lapsus$ ransomware group claimed to have hacked Samsung Electronics and leaked alleged stolen confidential data. The Lapsus$ ransomware gang claims to have stolen a huge trove of sensitive data from Samsung Electronics and leaked 190GB of alleged Samsung data as proof of the hack. The gang announced the availability of the sample data on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2022
A Ukrainian researcher leaked the source for the Conti ransomware and components for the control panels. Recently a Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,694 messages internal chat messages belonging to the Conti ransomware operation after the announcement of the group of its support to Russia. He was able to access the database XMPP chat server of the Conti group. Clearly, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Anonymous breached the internal network of Belarusian railways Feb 7- Feb 27 Ukraine â […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2022
This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of Russia – Ukraine cyber dispute February 27 – Ukraine: Volunteer IT Army is going to hit tens of Russian targets from this list Ukraine is recruiting a volunteer IT army […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2022
The chipmaker giant Nvidia was the victim of a ransomware attack that took down some of its systems for two days. The chipmaker giant Nvidia was victim of a ransomware attack that impacted some of its systems for two days. The security breach is not connected to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, according to a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2022
Anonymous collective has hacked the Russian Defense Ministry and leaked the data of its employees in response to the Ukraine invasion. A few hours after the Anonymous collective has called to action against Russia following the illegitimate invasion of Ukraine its members have taken down the website of the Russian propaganda station RT News and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2022
US cookware distributor giant Meyer Corporation discloses a data breach that affected thousands of its employees. Meyer Corporation, the second-largest cookware distributor globally, has disclosed a data breach that affects thousands of its employees. The attack took place on October 25, 2021, as reported by the data breach notification letter shared with the U.S. Attorney […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. CISA compiled a list of free cybersecurity tools and services White House and UK […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2022
WordPress forces the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin patch on 3 million sites to fix a high-severity vulnerability. WordPress has forced the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin around three million sites to address a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0633 (CVSS v3.1 score of 8.5) that can allow website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which could potentially […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2022
Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska has disclosed a data breach that has impacted roughly 200,000 customers. Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska has disclosed a data breach that has impacted 10% of its customers, roughly 200,000 people. Threat actors had access to sensitive personal information of the customers, including names, personal identification numbers, physical addresses, and […]
