Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2020
Security experts uncovered a new Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign, the messages inform recipients that they have been exposed to the virus. Experts continue to spot Coronavirus-themed attack, a new phishing campaign uses messages that pretend to be from a local hospital informing the victims they have been exposed to the virus and that they need urgently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Coronavirus-themed attacks March 15 – March 21, 2020 Google addresses high severity bugs in Chrome Keepnet Labs accidentally exposed an unprotected database with 5 Billion previously leaked records Security firm accidentally exposed an unprotected database with 5 Billion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2020
The FIN7 APT group has been targeting businesses with malicious USB drives and Teddy Bears sent to the victims, the FBI warns. The FBI is warning of a new wave of attacks carried out by the FIN7 APT group that is sending to the victims devices acting as a keyboard (HID Emulator USB) when plugged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2020
The FBI shuts down Deer.io, a Russian-based online platform that has been hosting hundreds of online shops where illegal products and services were being sold, The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has recently taken down the Russian-based online platform DEER.IO that is hosting various cybercrime products and services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2020
Crooks behind the WordPress WP-VCD malware are distributing pirated versions of the Coronavirus plugins that inject a backdoor into websites. behind the WordPress WP-VCD malware are distributing pirated versions of the Coronavirus plugins that inject a backdoor into websites The malware was first spotted in July 2017 by the Italian security expert Manuel D’Orso who noticed that the malicious code was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2020
General Electric (GE) s a data breach that exposed personally identifiable information of current and former employees, as well as beneficiaries. The technology giant General Electric (GE) disclosed a data breach that exposed personally identifiable information of current and former employees, as well as beneficiaries. The data breach was caused by a security breach suffered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2020
Hackers are offering for sale on the dark web data belonging to 538 million Weibo users, including 172 million phone numbers. Data of 538 million Weibo users are available for sale on the dark web the news was reported by several Chinese media and users on social networks. 107 million records include personal data and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs BlackWater, a malware that uses Cloudflare Workers for C2 Communication Coronavirus-themed attacks February 1 – March 15, 2020 Massive cyber attack hit the town hall of Marseille ahead local election Noooo, now Ancient Tortoise BEC scammers are launching […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2020
UK printing company Doxzoo exposed hundreds of gigabytes of information, including documents related to the US and British military. Security experts at vpnMentor discovered 343GB worth of files belonging to the printing company Doxzoo that were exposed on an AWS server. The researchers reported their discovery to the company on January 26, but it never […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2020
Drupal developers released security updates for versions 8.8.x and 8.7.x that fix two XSS vulnerabilities affecting the CKEditor library. The Drupal development team has released security updates for versions 8.8.x and 8.7.x that address two XSS vulnerabilities that affect the CKEditor library. CKEditor is the far superior successor of FCKeditor, it is a popular, highly […]
