Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2020
Mozilla is intensifying the efforts to protect its users, in the last couple of weeks, the security staff has banned 200 malicious Firefox add-ons. Over the past two weeks, Mozilla has reviewed and banned 197 Firefox add-ons because they were executing malicious code. The malicious Firefox add-ons were found stealing user data and for this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2020
A new piece of the Ryuk malware has been improved to steal confidential files related to the military, government, financial statements, and banking. Security experts from MalwareHunterTeam have discovered a new version of the Ryuk Stealer malware that has been enhanced to allow its operators to steal a greater amount of confidential files related to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2020
The City of Potsdam suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, but emergency services were not impacted. The German City of Potsdam has suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, the good news is that emergency services, including the city’s fire department fully operational and payments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online Hackers patch Citrix servers to deploy their own backdoor Citrix releases permanent fixes for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in ADC 11.1 and 12.0 JhoneRAT uses […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2020
Cisco addressed a vulnerability in Cisco Webex that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to join a protected video conference meeting. Cisco has addressed a high-severity flaw in the Cisco Webex video conferencing platform (CVE-2020-3142) that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to enter a password-protected video conference meeting. In order […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2020
The Greek government announced that a DDoS cyber attack hit the official state websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries. Yesterday the Greek government announced that the official websites of the prime minister, the national police and fire service and several important ministries were hit by a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2020
A Russian national pleaded guilty this week to running a carding website called Cardplanet that helped people commit credit-card fraud. Last year, the Russian man Aleksei Burkov (29) was accused of running an online criminal marketplace, called Cardplanet, that helped crooks to organize more than $20 million in credit card fraud. In November, the suspect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 24, 2020
Cisco addressed a critical issue in the Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC) that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary actions. Cisco fixed a critical vulnerability in the Cisco Firepower Management Center that could allow a remote attacker to gain administrative access to the web-based management interface of the vulnerable devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2020
An expert discovered that over 250 million Microsoft customer support records might have been exposed along with some personally identifiable information. The popular researcher Bob Diachenko found an unprotected database containing over 250 million customer support records along with some personally identifiable information. The unprotected archive was containing support requests submitted to the tech giant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2020
System supporting libraries in Volusia County were hit by a cyber attack, the incident took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library (VCPL) branches. 600 staff and public access computers were taken down at Volusia County Public Library (VCPL) branches in Daytona Beach, Florida, following a cyberattack. The attack started around 7 AM on […]
