Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2020
Google addresses high severity bugs in Chrome

Google released security updates to address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the popular Chrome browser. Google released security updates to address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in Chrome, the tech giant also announced a pause for upcoming releases of the popular browser. The version 80.0.3987.149 is available for download for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Google announced that it […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2020
UK Fintech company Finastra hit by a cyber attack

The financial technology firm Finastra announced it has suffered a ransomware attack that took down its some of its systems. Finastra, the UK leading financial technology provider, announced that some of its servers were shut down in response to a ransomware attack that the company detected. Finastra provides financial software and services to more than 9,000 customers […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2020
Mukashi, the new Mirai variant that targets Zyxel NAS

A new variant of the infamous Mirai malware, tracked as Mukashi, targets Zyxel network-attached storage (NAS) devices exploiting recently patched CVE-2020-9054 issue. Security experts have discovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai malware, tracked as Mukashi, was employed in attacks against network-attached storage (NAS) devices manufactured by Zyxel. According to Palo Alto researchers, threat actors exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2020
Healthcare sector targeted : what you need to know about the hackers very unusual strategy

Orange Cyberdefense’s Epidemiology Lab has published a report on cyberattacks targeting the healthcare sector. While COVID-19 infections around the world are exploding, cyber threat actors are trying to capitalise on this global health crisis by creating malwares or launching attacks with a COVID-19 theme. Last week, a COVID-19 testing centre was hit by a cyberattack, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2020
UK printing company Doxzoo exposed US and UK military docs

UK printing company Doxzoo exposed hundreds of gigabytes of information, including documents related to the US and British military. Security experts at vpnMentor discovered 343GB worth of files belonging to the printing company Doxzoo that were exposed on an AWS server. The researchers reported their discovery to the company on January 26, but it never […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2020
Russia-linked APT28 has been scanning vulnerable email servers in the last year

Experts warn of scanning activity conducted by Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group, hackers are searching for vulnerable mail servers. According to security researchers from Trend Micro, the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group has been scanning vulnerable email servers for more than a year. The APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, Sednit, and STRONTIUM) has been active since at least 2007 and it has […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2020
Pwn2Own 2020 – Participants hacked Adobe Reader, Oracle VirtualBox, and Windows

Pwn2Own 2020 Day 2 -Participants earned a total of $90,000 for exploits targeting Oracle VirtualBox, Adobe Reader and Windows. The Coronavirus outbreak hasn’t stopped the Pwn2Own hacking conference, for the first time its organizer, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), has decided to arrange the event allowing the participants to remotely demonstrate their exploits. Day 2 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2020
CERT France – Pysa ransomware is targeting local governments

CERT France is warning of a new wave of attacks using Pysa ransomware (Mespinoza) that is targeting local governments. CERT France cyber-security agency is warning about a new wave of ransomware attack that is targeting the networks of local government authorities. Operators behind this campaign are spreading a new version of the Mespinoza ransomware (aka […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2020
Pwn2Own 2020 Day1 -researchers earned $180K for hacking Windows, Ubuntu, and macOS

During the first day of the Pwn2Own 2020 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $180,000 for exploits targeting Windows 10, Ubuntu Desktop and macOS. The Coronavirus outbreak hasn’t stopped the Pwn2Own hacking conference, for the first time its organizer, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), has decided to arrange the event allowing the participants to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2020
Cisco addresses multiple issues in its SD-WAN product

Cisco has addressed a total of five vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN solution, including three high severity flaws. Cisco has addressed five vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN solution, including three high severity flaws. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by attackers to make unauthorized changes to the system, inject arbitrary commands that are executed with root permissions, and […]