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Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2020
NSA warns of cloud attacks on authentication mechanisms

The US National Security Agency (NSA) warns of two techniques abused by threat actors for escalating attacks from local networks to cloud infrastructure. The US National Security Agency has published a security advisory that describes two techniques abused in recent attacks against cloud infrastructure. The attack techniques are abused by hackers are using to escalate […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2020
Hackers target COVID-19 vaccine supply chain and sell the vaccine in Darkweb

Threat actors continue to trade critical medical data in the Dark Web while organizations are involved in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cybercrime organizations continue to be very active while pharmaceutical organizations are involved in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine and medicines to cure the infections. Experts from Cyble discovered in several forums on the dark web, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2020
All-source intelligence: reshaping an old tool for future challenges

An enhanced version of the old all-source intelligence discipline could serve the purpose. By Boris Giannetto Hybrid, interconnected and complex threats require hybrid, interconnected and complex tools. An enhanced version of the old all-source intelligence discipline could serve the purpose. Today’s society hinges on technologies and they will have most likely an ever-increasing clout in […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2020
Microsoft confirms breach in SolarWinds hack, but denies its clients were affected

Microsoft confirms that it was also breached in the SolarWinds supply chain hack, but excluded that the attack impacted its customers. Microsoft has confirmed that it was one of the companies breached in the recent SolarWinds supply chain attack, but the IT giant denied that the nation-state actors compromised its software supply-chain to infect its […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
DoppelPaymer ransomware gang now cold-calling victims, FBI warns

FBI says DoppelPaymer ransomware gang is harassing victims who refuse to pay, threatening to send individuals to their homes. FBI is warning of a new escalation in the extortion activities of the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang, the operators have been calling victims, threatening to send individuals to their homes if they don’t pay the ransom. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
Experts spotted browser malicious extensions for Instagram, Facebook and others

Avast researchers reported that three million users installed 28 malicious Chrome or Edge extensions that could perform several malicious operations. Avast Threat Intelligence researchers spotted malicious Chrome and Edge browser extensions that were installed by over 3 million users. The extensions were designed to steal user’s data (i.e. birth dates, email addresses, and active devices) and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
Launched OSSISNa, the Observatory for the Protection of the National Strategic Industrial System

On 11th December 2020, the Observatory for the Protection of the National Strategic Industrial System (OSSISNa) was officially announced. On 11th December 2020, during the international scientific conference on CBRNe events “SICC 2020”, the Observatory for the Protection of the National Strategic Industrial System (OSSISNa) was officially presented. OSSISNa is a project created within the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2020
Digging the recently leaked Chinese Communist Party database

KELA researchers analyzed a database recently leaked online that contains data for 1.9 million Chinese Communist Party members in Shanghai. After the announcement of the leak of the database which contains the personal information of 1.9 million Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members in Shanghai, KELA researchers have obtained it. This database includes the members’ name, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2020
HPE discloses critical zero-day in Systems Insight Manager

HPE has disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the latest versions of its HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) software for both Windows and Linux. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has disclosed a zero-day remote code execution flaw that affects the latest versions of its HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) software for Windows and Linux. HPE SIM is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2020
EU Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts aim at setting new rules for tech giants

The European Union is going to unveil two laws, the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts, that will impose new rules for tech giants. The European Union is set to unveil two laws, the Digital Services and Digital Markets Acts, that aim at defining new rules for the digital market, especially for the operations of […]