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Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2019
Singapore Government will run its third bug bounty program

Singapore has announced the third bug bounty program aimed at assessing the security of government systems exposed online. The government of Singapore has announced its third bug bounty program aimed at assessing the level of security implemented for government systems exposed online. The bug bounty program sees the involvement of the Cyber Security Agency of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2019
ViceLeaker Android spyware targets users in the Middle East

Experts at Kaspersky have uncovered a spyware campaign dubbed ViceLeaker that spreads in the Middle East to spy on Android users.  Kaspersky spotted a spyware campaign, tracked as ViceLeaker, that spreads in the Middle East to steal device and communications data from Android users.  The ViceLeaker campaign has been active at least since May 2018 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2019
Iran-linked APT33 updates infrastructure following its public disclosure

The Iran-linked cyberespionage group APT33 has updated its infrastructure after the publication of a report detailing its activities. In March, Symantec published a report detailing the activities of Iran-linked cyberespionage group APT33 that was targeting organizations in Saudi Arabia and the United States. The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2019
Vulnerability in Medtronic insulin pumps allow hacking devices

Medtronic and the US government have warned that some Medtronic MiniMed insulin pumps are vulnerable to cyber attacks. Medtronic and the United States government have warned of a security vulnerability affecting some Medtronic MiniMed insulin pumps that could be exploited by hackers. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Medtronic, and the Food and Drug […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2019
Attunity data leak: Netflix, Ford, TD Bank data exposed by Open AWS Buckets

Attunity data integration and big data management firm exposed a significant amount of sensitive data through unprotected Amazon S3 buckets. Data integration and big data management firm Attunity exposed a significant amount of sensitive data through unprotected Amazon S3 buckets. The company, owned by Qlik, provides solutions to over 2,000 enterprises and half of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2019
Talos discovered Spelevo EK, an exploit kit spreading via B2B Website

Researchers at Cisco Talos group have discovered a new exploit kit dubbed Spelevo that spreads via a compromised business-to-business website. Malware researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a new exploit kit dubbed Spelevo that spreads via a compromised business-to-business website. The popularity of EK rapidly decreased with the demise of the Angler Exploit Kit, but the discovery […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2019
US-based Cloud Solution Provider PCM Inc. hacked

Hackers breached the infrastructure of PCM Inc., one of the major U.S.-based cloud solution provider, and accessed to email and file sharing systems for some of its clients. Hackers breached the infrastructure of PCM Inc., one of the major U.S.-based cloud solution provider. According to the popular investigator Brian Krebs, the attackers gained access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2019
Crooks stole millions from Bitrue Cryptocurrency Exchange

Another cryptocurrency exchange announced to have suffered a theft, this time is the victim is the Singapore-based Bitrue. It has happened again, crooks stole funds from another cryptocurrency exchange, this time the victim is the Singapore-based Bitrue. Bitrue revealed on Thursday that hackers accessed the accounts of tens of its customers and stole their funds. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2019
Flaws in the BlueStacks Android emulator allows remote code execution and more

Multiple flaws in the BlueStacks Android emulator were addressed, including a vulnerability that allowed attackers to remotely control code execution. Other issues included information disclosure and a flaw that allowed attackers to steal backups of the VM and its data. In April, the researcher Nick Cano discovered that BlueStacks versions prior than v4.90.0.1046 are affected by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2019
Flaws in EA Games Login exposed accounts of 300 Million Gamers to hack

Experts discovered security flaws in EA Games’ login process that could allow an attacker to take over EA gamers’ accounts and steal sensitive data. Experts at Check Point Research and Cyberint discovered multiple security flaws in EA Games’ login process that could allow an attacker to take over EA gamers’ accounts and steal sensitive data. […]