Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2020
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. Chilean-based retail giant Cencosud hit by Egregor Ransomware ShinyHunters hacked Pluto TV service, 3.2M accounts exposed The North Face website suffered a credential stuffing attack Crooks use software skimmer that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2020
Officials confirm that the city of Saint John was hit by a massive cyberattack that has crippled the entire IT municipal infrastructure. The city of Saint John, Canada, was hit by a massive cyberattack that has crippled the entire IT municipal infrastructure, the incident was publicly disclosed on November 15. The cyberattack caused the shut […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2020
A Dutch tech reporter gatecrashed a video conference of EU defence ministers after the Dutch minister shared an image on Twitter. Dutch journalist Daniel Verlaan of RTL Nieuws broke into a secret video conference of EU defence ministers after the Dutch defence minister Ank Bijleveld posted on Twitter an image of the call that accidentally […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2020
Threat actors are scanning the Internet for ENV files that usually contain API tokens, passwords, and database logins. Threat actors are scanning the internet for API tokens, passwords, and database logins that are usually used to store ENV files (Environment files) accidentally left exposed online. Environment files are configuration files that usually contain user environment […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2020
The Manchester United football club has been hit by a cyber attack on their systems, it is not aware of a breach of personal data for his fans. Manchester United disclosed a cyber attack, but according to the football club it is not âcurrently aware of any breach of personal data associated with our fans and customersâ. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2020
The new National Cyber Force (NCF) is working to improve UKâs offensive cyber capabilities to disrupt adversaries and keep the UK safe. UK Prime Minister, in a speech on defence spending, announced the GCHQ and Ministry of Defence (MoD) partnership aimed at conducting offensive cyber operations to disrupt hostile nation-state operations, terrorists, and cyber criminal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2020
VMware has addressed two serious ESXi vulnerabilities that were demonstrated at the Tianfu Cup International PWN Contest. VMware has released patches for two serious ESXi vulnerabilities that were disclosed during the 2020 Tianfu Cup International PWN Contest. The Tianfu Cup is the most important hacking contest held in China, the total bonus of the contest […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2020
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was hit by a new cyber attack that may have caused the leakage of information related to its business partners. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. was hit again by a massive cyberattack that may have caused the leakage of information related to its business partners. “Company officials on Nov. 20 said they were checking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2020
The QakBot banking trojan has dropped the ProLock ransomware, they are now opting for the Egregor ransomware in their operations. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has discovered that QakBot (aka Qbot) operators have abandoned ProLock for Egregor ransomware. Egregor has been actively distributed since September 2020 and has so far hit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2020
An unpatched security flaw in GO SMS Pro, a popular messaging app for Android with over 100 million installs, exposes media messages. GO SMS Pro is a popular Android messaging app with over 100 million installs, that has been found to be affected by an unpatched security flaw that publicly exposes media transferred between users. […]
