Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2020
Group-IB helped Russian Police in detaining the operators of a fraudulent online service, selling fake digital passes to move around Moscow amid COVID-19 lockdown. Group-IB, an international cybersecurity company, and the Moscow Department of Information Technology have helped Moscow police in identifying and detaining the operators of a fraudulent online service, selling fake digital passes […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2020
The Israeli authorities are alerting organizations in the water industry following a series of cyberattacks that hit water facilities in the country. The Israeli government has issued an alert to organizations in the water sector following a series of cyberattacks that targeted the water facilities. Israel’s National Cyber Directorate announced to have received reports of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2020
Experts managed to sinkhole several C2 servers of the VictoryGate botnet that already infected over 35,000 devices and propagates via infected USB devices. The VictoryGate botnet is active since at least May 2019, the botnet is more active in Latin America the most. More than 90% of the infected devices are located in Peru. Experts from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2020
Cybersecurity firm Sophos releases an emergency patch to address an SQL injection flaw in its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild. Cybersecurity firm Sophos has released an emergency patch to address an SQL injection zero-day vulnerability affecting its XG Firewall product that has been exploited in the wild. Sophos was informed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2020
This post includes the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from April 19 to April 25, 2020. Please give me your vote for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERShttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8AkYMfAAwJ4JZzYRm8GfsJCDON8q83C9_wu5u10sNAt_CcA/viewform Threat actors exploit the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2020
The legal dispute between Facebook and NSO group continues even after the Israeli surveillance firm filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this month. Facebook advocates have challenged a plea from spyware maker NSO Group to dismiss the legal dispute over the hacking accusations, arguing it has immunity from prosecution. Now both companies are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2020
Researchers at Zscaler observed an increase of 30,000% in Coronavirus-themed attacks in March when compared to the beginning of 2020. Researchers from Zscaler observed an increase of 30,000% in Coronavirus-themed attacks in March when compared to the beginning of 2020. In January experts started observing first attacks using COVID-19-related lures and themes, just two months later […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2020
Security experts from RACK911 Labs discovered “symlink race” vulnerabilities in 28 of the most popular antivirus products. Security researchers from RACK911 Labs disclose the discovery of “symlink race” issues in 28 of the most popular antivirus products. The flaws affect 28 products running on major OSs, including Linux, Mac, and Windows. “A symlink race is a kind […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2020
Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. The gaming giant Nintendo announced that hackers gained accessed at least 160,000 user accounts as part of an account hijacking campaign since early April. The company launched an investigation after it has received several […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2020
The Hoaxcalls IoT botnet expanded the list of targeted devices and has added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. DDoS protection services provider Radware warns the Hoaxcalls Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has expanded the list of targeted devices, the experts also noticed that the operators implemented new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. […]
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