Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2020
The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee announced that the alliance has sent a counter-hybrid team to Montenegro to face Russian hybrid attacks. Last week in Brussels, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (MC), Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, announced the effort of the Alliance in facing Russian hybrid attacks. The term “Hybrid warfare” refers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 20, 2020
Researchers from Cisco Talos discovered a new Trojan named JhoneRAT that was used in targeted attacks against entities in the Middle East. A new Trojan named JhoneRAT appeared in the threat landscape, it is selectively attacking targets in the Middle East by checking keyboard layouts. The malware targets a very specific set of Arabic-speaking countries, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Google removed 1.7K+ Joker Malware infected apps from its Play Store MageCart attack hit Australia bushfire Donors New Bill prohibits intelligence sharing with countries using Huawei 5G equipment 5G – The Future of Security and Privacy in Smart […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2020
Microsoft published a security advisory to warn of an Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2020-0674) that is currently being exploited in the wild. Microsoft has published a security advisory (ADV200001) that includes mitigations for a zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-0674, affecting Internet Explorer. The tech giant confirmed that the CVE-2020-0674 zero-day […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2020
I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020 Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow. According to the Cybersecurity Ventures’ cybercrime statistics 2017 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2020
Chinese authorities continue operations against unauthorized VPN services that are very popular in the country. China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying and persecution of VPN services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. The Great Firewall project already blocked access to more hundreds of the world’s 1,000 top […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2020
A researcher has publicly released some proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits and technical details for flaws in Cisco’s Data Center Network Manager (DCNM). Early this month, Cisco released security updates for its Cisco’s Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) product that address several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. All the vulnerabilities were reported to Cisco through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) and Accenture’s iDefense service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2020
VMware has released security updates to address a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Tools version 10 for Windows. VMware has released VMware Tools 11.0.0 that addresses a local privilege escalation issue in Tools 10.x.y tracked as CVE-2020-3941. The issue, classified as a race condition flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2020
P&N Bank discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed The Australian P&N Bank is notifying its customers a data breach that has exposed personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive account data. P&N Bank, a division of Police & Nurses Limited and operating in Western Australia, suffered a data breach and is reporting the incident […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2020
49 million user records from US data broker LimeLeads were available for sale on a hacking forum. 49 million user records from US data broker LimeLeads were available for sale on a hacking forum, the data were exposed on an Elasticsearch server. Exposed LimeLeads data contains full name, title, user email, employer/company name, company address, […]
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