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Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2021
Threat Report Portugal: Q4 2020

Threat Report Portugal Q4 2020: Data related to Phishing and malware attacks based on the Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-InformĂĄtica. This feed is based on automatic searches and also supported by a healthy community […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2021
TikTok privacy issue could have allowed stealing users’ private details

A vulnerability in the video-sharing social networking service TikTok could have allowed hackers to steal users’ private personal information. Developers at ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, have fixed a security vulnerability in the popular video-sharing social networking service that could have allowed attackers to steal users’ private personal information. Check Point researchers found a vulnerability in Find Friends […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2021
North Korea-linked campaign targets security experts via social media

Google TAG is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning that North Korea-linked hackers targeting security researchers through social media. According to the Google team that focuses on nation-state attacks, a North Korea-linked APT group has targeted experts that are working on the research […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2021
Dutch police arrested two people for the illegal sale of COVID-19 patient data

Dutch police arrested two individuals for allegedly selling COVID-19 patient data stolen from the Dutch health ministry. Dutch police have arrested two individuals in the country for selling COVID-19 patient data stolen from the national COVID-19. The availability of COVID-19 patient data in the cybercrime underground was spotted by the RTL Nieuws reporter Daniel Verlaan. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2021
Ransomware attack hit WestRock IT and OT systems

Packaging giant WestRock disclosed a ransomware attack that impacted its information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems. American corrugated packaging company WestRock announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that impacted its information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) systems. WestRock did not share details about the security incident, it only confirmed that its […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2021
Cryptomining DreamBus botnet targets Linux servers

Zscaler’s research team recently spotted a Linux-based malware family, tracked as DreamBus botnet, targeting Linux servers. Researchers at Zscaler’s ThreatLabZ research team recently analyzed a Linux-based malware family, tracked as DreamBus Botnet, which is a variant of SystemdMiner. The bot is composed of a series of Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) binaries and Unix shell scripts.  The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2021
Cryptocurrency exchange BuyUcoin hacked, data of 325K+ users leaked

Indian cryptocurrency exchange Buyucoin suffered a security incident, threat actors leaked sensitive data of 325K users. A new incident involving a cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, the India-based cryptocurrency exchange suffered a security incident, threat actors leaked sensitive data of 325K users on the Dark Web. Leaked data includes names, e-mails, mobile numbers, encrypted passwords, user […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2021
Hacker leaks data of 2.28M users of dating site MeetMindful

A well-known threat actor has leaked data belonging to 2.28 million users registered on the dating website MeetMindful. ZDNet first reported that the well-known threat actor ShinyHunters has leaked the data of more than 2.28 million users registered on the dating site MeetMindful, The threat actor leaked the data for free download on a publicly accessible hacking […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 298

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Critical flaws in Orbit Fox WordPress plugin allows site takeover EMA said that hackers manipulated stolen documents before leaking them Security Affairs newsletter Round 297 500K+ records of C-level people […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2021
Chipmaker Intel reveals that an internal error caused a data leak

The chipmaker Intel Corp. revealed that an internal error it the root cause of a data leak, it confirmed that corporate network was not impacted. The computer chipmaker Intel Corp. confirmed that an internal error is the cause of a data leak that prompted it to release a quarterly earnings report early. Intel chief financial officer, […]