Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2019
Australia ‘s intelligence is sure that China is behind the cyberattacks that hit its parliament and political parties, but decided to not publicly accuse it. According to the Reuters agency, Australia’s intelligence has evidence that the attacks that hit its parliament and political parties were orchestrated by China. Anyway the Australian government decided to not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2019
Experts at ReversingLabs spotted a threat actor buying digital certificates by impersonating legitimate entities and then selling them on the black market. Researchers at ReversingLabs have identified a new threat actor that is buying digital certificates by impersonating company executives, and then selling them on the black market. The experts discovered that digital certificates are then […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2019
A new Android malware has appeared in the threat landscape, tracked as MobiHok RAT, it borrows the code from the old SpyNote RAT. Experts from threat intelligence firm SenseCy spotted a new piece of Android RAT, dubbed MobiHok RAT, that used code from the old SpyNote RAT. At the beginning of July 2019, the experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2019
Researcher discovered an unsecured database exposed online, belonging to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads, containing 198 million records. The researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database exposed online that belong to car dealership marketing firm Dealer Leads. The archive containing 198 million records for a total of 413GB of data containing information of potential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2019
Facebook addressed a vulnerability in Instagram that could have allowed attackers to access private user information. The security researcher @ZHacker13 discovered a flaw in Instagram that allowed an attacker to access account information, including user phone number and real name. ZHacker13 discovered the vulnerability in August and reported the issue to Facebook that asked for additional […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2019
The US Treasury placed sanctions on three North Korea-linked hacking groups, the Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and Andarial. The US Treasury sanctions on three North Korea-linked hacking groups, the Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and Andarial. The groups are behind several hacking operations that resulted in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2019
A new cryptocurrency-mining botnet tracked as WatchBog is heavily using the Pastebin service for command and control (C&C) operations. Cisco Talos researchers discovered a new cryptocurrency-mining botnet tracked as WatchBog is heavily using the Pastebin service for command and control. The WatchBog bot is a Linux-based malware that is active since last year, it targets […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2019
Poland announced it will launch a cyberspace defense force by 2024 composed of around 2,000 soldiers with a deep knowledge in cybersecurity. The Polish Defence Ministry Mariusz Blaszczak has approved the creation of a cyberspace defence force by 2024, it will be composed of around 2,000 soldiers with deep expertise in cybersecurity. The news was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2019
SimJacker is a critical vulnerability in SIM cards that could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise any phones just by sending an SMS. Cybersecurity researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security disclosed a critical vulnerability in SIM cards dubbed SimJacker that could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims just […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2019
SAP released the September 2019 Security Patch that addressed four Security Notes rated as Hot News by the company. SAP released the September 2019 Security Patch that addressed four Security Notes rated as Hot News by the company, but only one of them is new. SAP released 16 new or updated Security Notes, the overall […]
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