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Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2020
Reading Municipal Light Department, an electric utility in Massachusetts, hit by ransomware

The Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD), an electric utility in Massachusetts, announced it was hit by a ransomware attack. This week, the Reading Municipal Light Department (RMLD), an electric utility in Massachusetts, announced it was hit by a ransomware attack. Reading Municipal Light Department provides electricity to over 68,000 citizens that live in the towns […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2020
Decathlon Spain data leak exposed Spanish employees’ data & more

Experts discovered a leaking, active database with over 123 million records belonging to Decathlon Spain (and possibly Decathlon UK as well). Experts from vpnMentor have uncovered a leaking, active database containing over 123 million records belonging to the sporting goods retailer Decathlon Spain (and possibly Decathlon UK as well). The unsecure archive is greater than […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2020
Zyxel addresses Zero-Day vulnerability in NAS devices

Tech vendor Zyxel addresses a critical vulnerability in several network-attached storage (NAS) devices that is already being exploited in the wild. Zyxel has released security patches to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-9054, that affects several NAS devices. The flaw can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker, it resides in the weblogin.cgi CGI executable […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2020
Experts discovered a new critical OpenSMTPD RCE flaw exploited in the wild

Experts discovered a new critical remote code execution vulnerability in the OpenSMTPD that could allow hacking email servers running BSD or Linux. A new critical remote code execution vulnerability was discovered in the OpenSMTPD that could be exploited by attackers to take complete control over email servers running BSD or Linux operating systems. OpenSMTPD is an […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2020
Google fixes Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in the wild

Google has released Chrome 80 update that addresses three high-severity vulnerabilities, one of them has been exploited in the wild. Google has released Chrome 80 update (version 80.0.3987.122) that addresses three high-severity vulnerabilities, including a zero-day issue (CVE-2020-6418) that has been exploited in the wild. The CVE-2020-6418 vulnerability is a type confusion issue that affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2020
Hacking campaign targets sites running popular Duplicator WordPress plugin

Security experts are warning of a new wave of attacks targeting a zero-day vulnerability in the popular Duplicator WordPress Plugin. Last week the development team behind the popular Duplicator WordPress plugin, the Snap Creek, addressed a zero-day vulnerability that affected at least 1 million websites. Now researchers at security firm WordFence are warning of a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2020
Slickwraps discloses data leak that impacted 850,000 user accounts

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. Slickwraps is an online store that offers for sale skins mobile devices, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and gaming consoles. The data leak was disclosed last week, on February 21 the company that customer records were accidentally exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2020
Security Affairs newsletter Round 252

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs IOTA cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after a coordinated attack on its Trinity wallet Organizers of major hacking conferences in Asia put them on hold due to Coronavirus outbreak US administration requests $9.8B for cyber 2021 budget for […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2020
Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform

New Mexico sues Google for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from children. Google is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from students with an age of less than 13 years. The lawsuit was filed by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2020
Google removed nearly 600 apps from the Play Store for ad policy violation

Google announced to have removed nearly 600 Android apps in the official Play Store that were violating two ad-related policies. Google removed from the official Play Store nearly 600 Android apps that were violating two ad-related policies, it also banned the same apps from Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager. “As part of our ongoing […]