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Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2020
IndieFlix streaming service leaves thousands of confidential agreements, filmmaker SSNs, videos exposed on public server

The CyberNews research team discovered an unsecured data bucket on a publicly accessible Amazon Simple Storage (S3) server containing confidential data belonging to IndieFlix. Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/indieflix-leaks-thousands-of-filmmaker-ssns-confidential-agreements-videos/ IndieFlix is a US-based entertainment company offering a subscription-based online video streaming service that mainly specializes in independent titles, including feature films, shorts, and documentaries. The data […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2020
EU has imposed sanctions on foreign actors for the first time ever

For the first-ever time, the EU has imposed economical sanctions on Russia, China, and North Korea following cyber-attacks aimed at the EU and its member states. The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on a Russia-linked military espionage unit, as well as companies operating for Chinese and North Korean threat actors that launched […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2020
Expert discloses details of 3 Tor zero-day flaws … new ones to come

A security researcher published the details about two Tor zero-day vulnerabilities and plans to release three more flaws. The security researcher Dr. Neal Krawetz has published technical details about two Tor zero-day vulnerabilities over the past week and promises to release three more. Oppressive regimes could exploit these Tor zero-day flaws to prevent users from […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2020
Operation North Star – North-Korea hackers targeted US defense and aerospace companies

North Korea-linked hackers continue to be very active in this period, researchers reported a campaign aimed at the US defense and aerospace sectors. Security experts from McAfee uncovered a new cyber-espionage campaign carried out by North Korean hackers that targeted the US defense and aerospace sectors. Threat actors used fake job offers to deceive employees […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2020
BootHole issue allows installing a stealthy and persistent malware

Billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader issue, dubbed BootHole, that can be exploited to install a stealthy malware. Billions of Windows and Linux devices are affected by a serious GRUB2 bootloader vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-10713 and dubbed BootHole, which can be exploited by attackers to install persistent and stealthy […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
ShinyHunters leaked over 386 million user records from 18 companies

ShinyHunters, a trusted threat actor, is offering on a hacker forum the databases stolen from eighteen companies, over 386 million user records available online. The known threat actor ShinyHunters has begun leaking for free the databases of multiple companies on a hacker forum. A couple of days ago, the popular digital banking app Dave.com disclosed a security […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
Pirate Ship Sailing to Developing World: Group-IB Uncovers Real Captains of Online Piracy Crew

Group-IB’s report uncovers major players and driving forces of a criminal digital piracy syndicate which has been flourishing in the post-Soviet space Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, today presented its report “Jolly Roger’s patrons. Group-IB exposes financial crime network of online pirates in developing countries.“ The document uncovers major players […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
Hacking IoT & RF Devices with BürtleinaBoard

Yet another Multipurpose Breakout Board to hack hardware in a clean and easy way! How to hack IoT & RF Devices with BürtleinaBoard. Disclaimer: due to a complaint from the citizens of my native city in Italy… I had to rename #PiadinaBoard into #BurtleinaBoard 😛 Few months ago I have presented #FocacciaBoard: a similar multipurpose breakout board […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
QSnatch malware infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS Devices

US and UK cybersecurity agencies issued a joint advisory about the spread of QSnatch Data-Stealing Malware that already infected over 62,000 QNAP NAS devices. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued a joint advisory about a massive ongoing campaign spreading the QSnatch data-stealing malware. The malicious code […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2020
Garmin says many of the systems are returning to operation

Smartwatch and wearable device maker Garmin announced that its computer networks were coming back after the ransomware attack that took place last week. Last week, on July 23, smartwatch and wearable device maker Garmin had to shut down some of its connected services and call centers following a ransomware attack. A few days after the […]