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Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2020
Twitter reveals that hackers also downloaded data from eight compromised accounts

The social media giant Twitter confirmed that hackers compromised 130 accounts in last week hack and downloaded data from eight of them. Last week, the social media platform Twitter has suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, hackers breached a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2020
Diebold Nixdorf warns of a wave of ATM black box attacks across Europe

ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf is warning banks a new ATM black box attack technique that was recently employed in cyber thefts in Europe. Black box attacks are a type of jackpotting attack aimed at forcing an ATM to dispense the cash by sending a command through a “black box” device. In this attack, a black box […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2020
Experts warn of massive internet scans for SAP systems affected by RECON Vulnerability

Hackers have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability, researchers from Bad Packets warn. Researchers from Bad Packets reported that threat actors have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability, , tracked as  CVE-2020-6287. Immediately after a researcher released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for the RECON vulnerability, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2020
Introducing the PhishingKitTracker

Experts that want to to study phishing attack schema and Kit-composition can use the recently PhishingKitTracker, which is updated automatically. If you are a security researcher or even a passionate about how attackers implement phishing you will find yourself to look for phishing kits. A phishing kit is not a phishing builder, but a real […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2020
DHS CISA urges government agencies to fix SIGRed Windows Server DNS bug within 24h

US DHS CISA urges government agencies to patch SIGRed Windows Server DNS vulnerability within 24h due to the likelihood of the issue being exploited. The US DHS CISA issued an emergency directive urging government agencies to patch the recently disclosed SIGRed Windows Server DNS vulnerability within 24h due to the likelihood of the issue being […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2020
UK NCSC blames Russia-linked APT29 for attacks on COVID-19 vaccine research

The UK National Cyber Security Centre says that Russia-linked APT29 group is attempting to steal research data related to potential COVID-19 vaccines. The British National Cyber Security Centre revealed that Russia-linked group APT29 is conducting cyberespionage campaigns targeting UK, US, and Canadian organizations working of the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. “RUSSIAN cyber actors are targeting organisations […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2020
Cisco fixes 5 critical flaws that could allow router firewall takeover

Cisco addresses a critical remote code execution (RCE), authentication bypass, and static default credential flaws that could lead to full router takeover. Cisco has released security updates to address critical remote code execution (RCE), authentication bypass, and static default credential vulnerabilities affecting multiple router and firewall devices. An attacker could exploit the vulnerabilities to completely […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2020
CIA covert operations likely behind attacks against APT34 and FSB

CIA orchestrated dozens of hacking operations against targets worldwide, including APT34 and FSB hacks, states an exclusive report from Yahoo News. In 2018, US President Trump gave to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) more powers to conduct covert offensive cyber operations against hostile threat actors, including Iranian and Russian APT groups and intelligence agencies. In […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2020
New Zealand property management company leaks 30,000 users’ passports, driver’s licenses and other personal data

CyberNews reported the discovery of an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket containing users’ passports, driver’s licenses and other personal data The original post available here: https://cybernews.com/security/new-zealand-property-management-company-leaks-30000-passports-drivers-licenses/ CyberNews received information from reader Jake Dixon, a security researcher with Vadix Solutions, who discovered an unsecured Amazon Simple Storage Solution (S3) database containing more than 31,000 images of users’ passports, driver’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2020
US applauds British ban on China’s Huawei for 5G networks

The United States applauded the UK’s decision to ban equipment from China’s Huawei telecoms giant from its 5G network. Last week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced its decision to phase out the use of network equipment manufactured by the Chinese tech giant Huawei in the UK’s 5G network as little as six months. “We […]