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Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2019
Details for 1.3 million Indian payment cards available on the dark web, its the biggest single card database ever

Group-IB discovered details for 1.3 million Indian payment cards available for sale on Joker’s Stash, it is the largest card database ever Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has detected that a huge database presumably holding the total of more than 1.3 million credit and debit card records of mostly Indian […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2019
Fancy Bear continues to target sporting and anti-doping organizations

Russia-linked cyber-espionage group Fancy Bear has carried out multiple cyberattacks targeting sporting and anti-doping organizations across the world. Microsoft revealed that Russia-linked cyber-espionage group Fancy Bear (aka APT28, Sednit, Sofacy, Zebrocy, and Strontium) has carried out multiple cyberattacks targeting sporting and anti-doping organizations across the world. According to the tech giant, Russian cyber spies have targeted at least 16 agencies […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
Up to 2,000 Georgia websites have been hit by cyber attacks

A wave of cyber attacks hit 2,000 websites in Georgia, including the sites of the president, courts, and local media. A mysterious wave of cyber attacks hit some 2,000 websites in Georgia, including the websites of the president, courts, and media. The news was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the President Salome Zurabishvili’s that told […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
New FuxSocy Ransomware borrows code from defunct Cerber

Researchers discovered a new piece of ransomware called FuxSocy that borrows part of code from Cerber ransomware. Experts at MalwareHunterTeam discovered a new piece of ransomware called FuxSocy that borrows part of code from Cerber ransomware. The Cerber ransomware was first spotted in 2016, it was offered in the criminal underground as a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS). The name of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
UniCredit bank discloses a data breach that impacted 3 million of Italian clients

Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its customers in Italy have been affected by a data breach in 2015. The Italian bank UniCredit announced today that around three million of its Italian clients have been affected by a data breach that took place in 2015,  The UniCredit cybersecurity team has determined […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 237

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. Fake UpdraftPlus WordPress Plugins used to backdoor sites TA505 cybercrime […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2019
NCSC Report: U.K. neutralized over 600 cyber attacks this year

NCSC Report: U.K. has neutralized more than 600 cyber attacks this year, most of them launched by threat actors from overseas The National Cyber Security Centre announced that the U.K. has neutralized more than 600 cyber attacks this year, most of them launched by threat actors from overseas. Hackers from overseas, many of which are […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2019
CVE-2019-11043 exposes Web servers using nginx and PHP-FPM to hack

asty PHP7 remote code execution bug exploited in the wild Experts warn of a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP7, tracked as CVE-2019-11043, has been exploited in attacks in the wild. A remote code execution vulnerability in PHP7, tracked as CVE-2019-11043, has been exploited in attacks in the wild. On October 22, the security expert […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2019
Unsecured ElasticSearch DB exposed data for 7.5M Adobe Creative Cloud Users

Adobe suffered an important data leak, data for 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud users have been exposed online through an unsecured server. The tech giant Adobe suffered an important data leak, data belonging to 7.5 Million Adobe Creative Cloud users have been exposed online through an unsecured server. The security breach took place this month […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2019
P&G online beauty store First Aid Beauty hit by Magecart attack

A new MageCart attack made the headlines, this time hackers planted a software skimmer in the Procter & Gamble’s site First Aid Beauty website. According to Willem de Groot, a researcher at Sanguine Security, threat actors planted a MageCart software skimmer on Procter & Gamble’s site First Aid Beauty on May 5, and the malicious […]