Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2020
2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report: the global total cost of a data breach averaged $3.86 million in 2020, down about 1.5% from the 2019 study. Every year, I write about the annual report published by the Ponemon Institute on the cost of a data breach, it is a very interesting study that explores the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2020
Last week, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus announced the arrest of a 31-year-old man that is accused of distributing the infamous GandCrab ransomware. Last week, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Belarus announced the arrest of a man on charges of distributing the infamous GandCrab ransomware. The arrest is the result of an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2020
Havenly, a Denver-Based company, that realized an interior designer marketplace has disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.3 million users. The US-based interior design web site Havenly has disclosed a data breach after the known threat actor ShinyHunters has leaked for free the databases of multiple companies on a hacker forum. Last week, BleepingComputer reported that ShinyHunterswas […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2020
Researchers uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO via fake news content distributed through compromised news websites. Security experts from FireEye have uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by spreading fake news content on compromised news websites. “The operations have primarily targeted audiences in Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland with anti-North Atlantic Treaty […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2020
BleepingComputer researchers confirmed that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover their files encrypted with the WastedLocker Ransomware. BleepingComputer first revealed that Garmin has received the decryption key to recover the files encrypted with the WastedLocker Ransomware in the recent attack. On July 23, smartwatch and wearables maker Garmin has shut down several of its services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2020
The Taiwanese vendor QNAP urges its users to update the Malware Remover app following the alert on the QSnatch malware. The Taiwanese company QNAP is urging its users to update the Malware Remover app to prevent NAS devices from being infected by the QSnatch malware. This week, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2020
A critical flaw in the wpDiscuz WordPress plugin could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and take over the hosting account. Security experts from Wordfence discovered a critical vulnerability impacting the wpDiscuz WordPress plugin that is installed on over 80,000 sites. The vulnerability could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2020
A 30-year-old Moldovan man pleaded guilty this week for creating the FastPOS malware that infected PoS systems worldwide. The Moldovan citizen Valerian Chiochiu (30), aka Onassis, pleaded guilty on Friday for creating the infamous FastPOS Point-of-Sale (POS) malware. Chiochiu was a member of the Infraud global cybercrime organization involved in stealing and selling credit card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2020
Four suspects were charged for their alleged involvement in the recent Twitter hack, announced the Department of Justice. US authorities announced the arrest of 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark from Tampa, Florida, it is suspected to have orchestrated the recent Twitter hack. The arrest is the result of an operation coordinated by the FBI, the IRS, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2020
President Donald Trump announced that he plans to ban the popular short video app TikTok from operating in the US as early as Saturday. President Donald Trump has announced he is going to ban the popular Chinese video-sharing app TikTok in the US. The US President is ready to sign an executive order as early […]
