Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2021
According to a new report published by Check Point, organizations in the healthcare industry have faced a 45% increase in attacks since November. Check Point researchers reported a surge in the number of attacks against organizations in the healthcare industry, +45% since November. This is more than double the overall increase observed by the experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2021
The gaming industry under attack, Over 500,000 credentials for the top two dozen leading gaming firms, including Ubisoft, leaked online. The gaming industry is a privileged target for threat actors, threat actors leaked online over 500,000 stolen credentials belonging to the top 25 gaming firms. The alarm was raised by the threat intelligence firm Kela […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2021
A German security researcher demonstrated how to break, once again, the Google Audio reCAPTCHA with Google’s own Speech to Text API. Back in 2017, researchers from the University of Maryland demonstrated an attack method, dubbed unCaptcha, against Google’s audio-based reCAPTCHA v2. The system receives the audio challenge, downloads it, and submits it to Speech To […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2021
Researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes linked a series of ransomware attacks to the China-linked APT27 group. Security researchers from security firms Profero and Security Joes investigated a series of ransomware attacks against multiple organizations and linked them to China-linked APT groups. The experts attribute the attacks to the Chinese cyberespionage group APT27 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2021
A British court has rejected the request of the US government to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the US to stand trial, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court has rejected the US government’s request to extradite him on charges related to illegally obtaining and sharing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2021
Security expert spotted a new piece of malware that leverages weaponized Word documents to download a PowerShell script from GitHub. Security expert discovered a new piece of malware uses weaponized Word documents to download a PowerShell script from GitHub. This PowerShell script is also used by threat actors to download a legitimate image file from image hosting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2021
During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found threat actors selling 200 million+ Records of Chinese Citizens. During a routine Dark web monitoring, the Research team at Cyble found multiple posts where threat actors are offering for sale alleged data leaks related to Chinese citizens. Data might have been stolen from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2021
NCA arrested 21 people in the UK as part of an operation targeting customers of WeLeakInfo service that advertised stolen personal credentials. 21 people have been arrested in the UK as part of an operation against customers of the WeLeakInfo[.]com service that had been previously selling access to data from data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com was a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2021
This post includes the details of the COVID-19 themed attacks launched from December 19, 2020– January 02, 2021. 25 December, 2020 – North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has recently launched cyberattacks against at least two organizations involved in COVID19 research. 30 December, 2020 – US Treasury […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2021
Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million fine for hacking into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. The news is disturbing, Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million fine after being charged with illegally accessing computer systems into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. The intrusions into the competitor’s systems […]
