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Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 308

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to receive the complete weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free, including the international press, subscribe here. Experts found two flaws in Facebook for WordPress Plugin Hackers disrupted live […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2021
Clop Ransomware operators plunder US universities

Clop ransomware gang leaked online data stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, and the University of California. Clop ransomware operators have leaked the personal and financial information stolen from Stanford Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), and the University of California.. Data were stolen by the ransomware gang by compromising the Accellion File […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2021
Data of 533 million Facebook users leaked in a hacking forum for free

On April 3, a user has leaked the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users in a hacking forum for free online. Bad news for Facebook, a user in a hacking forum has published the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users. The availability of the data was first […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2021
Capital One discovered more customers’ SSNs exposed in 2019 hack

More clients of Capital One have been impacted in the 2019 data breach, the US bank is notifying them of their SSNs exposure. US bank Capital One notified a number of additional customers that their Social Security numbers were exposed in the data breach that took place in July 2019. A hacker that was going […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2021
Attackers are abusing GitHub infrastructure to mine cryptocurrency

The popular code repository hosting service GitHub is investigating a crypto-mining campaign abusing its infrastructure. Code repository hosting service GitHub launched an investigation in a series of attacks aimed at abusing its infrastructure to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Such kind of attacks was reported at least since the end of 2020, when some software developers reported the malicious activity […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2021
Evolution and rise of the Avaddon Ransomware-as-a-Service

The Avaddon ransomware operators updated their malware after security researchers released a public decryptor in February 2021. The Avaddon ransomware family first appeared in the threat landscape in February 2020, and its authors started offering it with a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model in June, 2020. In August 2020, cybersecurity intelligence firm Kela was the first to report that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2021
FBI and CISA are warning of APT actors targeting Fortinet FortiOS servers

FBI and CISA published a joint alert to warn of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups targeting Fortinet FortiOS to access networks of multiple organizations. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a joint alert to warn of attacks carried out by APT groups targeting Fortinet FortiOS servers using multiple exploits. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2021
TIM’s Red Team Research (RTR) team found 5 zero-day flaws in the CA eHealth Performance Manager product

Researchers from TIM’s Red Team Research discovered five new vulnerabilities affecting the CA eHealth Performance Manager product. Researchers from TIM’s Red Team Research led by Massimiliano Brolli, discovered 5 new vulnerabilities affecting the CA eHealth Performance Manager product. CA Technologies is an American multinational corporation specialized in business-to-business (B2B) software with a product portfolio focused […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2021
Tens of thousands of QNAP SOHO NAS devices affected by unpatched RCEs

Unpatched vulnerabilities in QNAP small office/home office (SOHO) network-attached storage (NAS) devices could be exploited by remote attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code. Security researchers at SAM Seamless Network discovered a couple of critical unpatched flawsin QNAP small office/home office (SOHO) network-attached storage (NAS) devices that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2021
Conti Ransomware gang demanded $40 million ransom to Broward County Public Schools

Ransomware gang demanded a $40,000,000 ransom to the Broward County Public Schools district, Florida. It is just the last attack of a long string against the sector. Ransomware operators continue to target organizations worldwide and school districts particularly exposed to these malicious campaigns. Recently the Broward County Public Schools district announced that it was victim […]