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Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2019
‘Camgirl’ sites expose millions of members and users

Hackers compromised a network of ‘camgirl’ sites and exposed data belonging to millions of users and sex workers. Hackers compromised several ‘camgirl‘ sites and have exposed millions of sex workers and users. All the sites were run by the Spanish company VTS Media that left the back-end database unprotected online. The unprotected database was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2019
Brooklyn Hospital lost patient records after a ransomware infection

Another organization in the healthcare industry was a victim of a Ransomware attack, this time the victim is Brooklyn Hospital. A ransomware attack has infected several computer systems at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York, the organization permanently lost patient data. The patient records encrypted in the attack include names and certain dental or […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2019
Anonymous and LulzSecITA hacked professional orders and telephone operator Lyca Mobile

The #FifthOfNovember has arrived, the Italian branch of Anonymous and LulzSecITA hacked websites of professional orders, prefecture of Naples, and also the telephone operator Lyca Mobile. The Million Mask March, also known as “Operation Vendetta” is a worldwide, annual protest associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous occurring annually on Guy Fawkes Day, the 5th of November. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2019
Mysterious DarkUniverse APT remained undetected for 8 years

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
GitLab plans to ban hires in China and Russia due to espionage concerns

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
Ocala City in Florida lost $742,000 following BEC attack

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
Two unpatched RCE flaws in rConfig software expose servers to hack

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
Exclusive – Analysis of the sample that hit the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant

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
Security Affairs newsletter Round 238

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 makes the code of ProtonMail iOS App open source

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 […]