Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2019
Kaspersky discovered a previously unknown APT group, tracked as DarkUniverse, by analyzing Shadow Brokers’ “Lost in Translation” data dump. In 2017, a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers stolen malware and hacking tools from the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group, then it published online the data dump called “Lost in Translation.” The dump […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2019
The popular code hosting platform GitLab is considering to block new hires from China and Russia due to espionage concerns. GitLab is a popular code hosting platform GitLab that is currently used by several major tech companies including IBM, Sony, NASA, Alibaba, Oracle, Invincea, Boeing, and SpaceX. The news was confirmed by Eric Johnson, VP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2019
Business email compromise scam (BEC) continues to target organizations worldwide, crooks stole $742,000 from Ocala City in Florida. The City of Ocala in Florida is the last victim in order of time of a profitable business email compromise scam (BEC) attack, fraudsters redirected over $742,000 to a bank account under their control. Attackers’ emails posed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2019
The popular rConfig network configuration management utility is affected by two critical remote code execution flaws that have yet to be patched. rConfig is a completely open-source, network configuration management utility used to validate and manage network devices, including switches, routers, firewalls, and load-balancer. The cyber security expert Mohammad Askar has discovered two critical remote code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2019
Expert Marco Ramilli and his team analyzed the sample that infected systems at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, it is a targeted attack. During the past few days a cyber attack hit Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant: the largest nuclear power plant located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The news was announced on Monday, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Experts found 17 apps in the Apple App Store infected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2019
Proton Technologies announced this week that it has made available the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App. The Proton Technologies firm continues to propose initiatives aimed at ensuring the transparency of its ProtonMail applications, this week it announced the availability of the source code of its popular ProtonMail iOS App. Recently the cybersecurity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2019
The data breach suffered by Canada Desjardins credit union last year is bigger than initially thought, it affected all 4.2 million of its customers. In June, Desjardins credit union announced a data breach that exposed personal banking information of 2.9 million customers. Unfortunately, the data breach is bigger than initially thought and affected all 4.2 million of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2019
One of the two flaws in Chrome addressed by Google, CVE-2019-13720, was exploited in a campaign that experts attribute to Korea-linked threat actors. This week Google released security updates to address two high severity vulnerabilities in the Chrome browser, one of which is a zero-day flaw actively exploited in attacks in the wild to hijack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2019
sPower, a US-based renewable energy provider, was the victim of a cyber attack that disconnected the US power grid operator from its power generation station. sPower, a Utah-based renewable energy provider was hit by a cyber attack, the incident took place in March. This is the first time that a cyber attack hit a renewable […]
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