Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2019
Microsoft revealed that the new Dexphot cryptocurrency miner has already infected more than 80,000 computers worldwide. Security experts at Microsoft analyzed a new strain of cryptocurrency miner tracked as Dexphot that has been active since at least October 2018. The malicious code abuse of the resources of the infected machine to mine cryptocurrency, according to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2019
Crooks behind the Raccoon Stealer have adopted a simple and effective technique to circumvent popular anti-spam messaging gateways. Cybercriminals behind the Raccoon Stealer have adopted a simple and effective technique to circumvent Microsoft and Symantec anti-spam messaging gateways. The Raccoon stealer was first spotted in April, it was designed to steal victims’ credit card data, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Experts found undocumented access feature in Siemens SIMATIC PLCs Tianfu Cup 2019 Day 1 – Chinese experts hacked Chrome, Edge, Safari, Office365 Crooks use carding bots to check stolen card data ahead of the holiday season Experts report […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2019
Kaspersky researchers found dozens of flaws in four popular open-source virtual network computing (VNC) systems. Experts from Kaspersky analyzed several different implementations of a remote access system called Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and identified a number of memory corruption vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities found by the experts could lead to remote code execution. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2019
Chinese smartphone vendor OnePlus has suffered a new data breach, according to a company’s notice hackers accessed customers’ order information. OnePlus disclosed a data breach, an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information, including names, contact numbers, emails, and shipping addresses. “We want to update you that we have discovered that some of our users’ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2019
Security duo discovered personal and social information 1.2 billion people exposed online on an unsecured Elasticsearch server. Researchers Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered an unsecured Eslasticsearch server containing an unprecedented 4 billion user accounts. The database, discovered on October 16, 2019, contained more than 4 terabytes of data is the largest data leaks from a single […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2019
The Russian hacker who created and used Neverquest banking malware has finally been sentenced to 4 years in prison by a US District Court. Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov (34), the Russian hacker who created and used Neverquest banking malware has been sentenced to 4 years in prison by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2019
Security experts from vpnMentor discovered that Gekko Group, an AccorHotels subsidiary, exposes hotels and travelers in a massive data leak. Gekko Group is a leading European B2B hotel booking platform that also owns smaller hospitality brands, including Teldar Travel & Infinite Hotel. The AccorHotels subsidiary has a combined customer base of 600,000 hotels worldwide. vpnMentor discovered a database exposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2019
Google announced that it will increase bug bounty rewards for Android, it will pay up to $1.5 million for bugs that allow to hack new Titan M security chip. At the end of 2018, Google announced its Titan M dedicated security chip that is currently installed on Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 4 devices. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2019
ESET researchers discovered a new downloader, dubbed DePriMon, that used new “Port Monitor” methods in attacks in the wild. The new DePriMon downloader was used by the Lambert APT group, aka Longhorn, to deploy malware. According to a report published by Symantec in 2017, Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since […]
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