Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2020
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT continues to target cryptocurrency exchanges

In the last 18 months, North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has continued to target cryptocurrency exchanges evolving its TTPs. Kaspersky researchers have analyzed the attacks carried out by North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group in the past 18 months and confirmed their interest in banks and cryptocurrency exchanges. In the mid-2018, the APT targeted cryptocurrency exchanges and cryptocurrency […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2020
Experts warn of ongoing scans for Citrix servers affected by CVE-2019-19781

Threat actors are probing Citrix servers in the attempt to exploit the CVE-2019-19781 remote code execution vulnerability. Security researchers are warning of ongoing scans for Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway) servers affected by the CVE-2019-19781 vulnerabilities. The anomalous activities were detected last week, as reported by the popular expert Kevin […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
The city of Las Vegas announced it has suffered a cyber attack

The city of Las Vegas announced it has suffered a cyber attack that breached its computer systems, it is unclear whether any sensitive data was exposed. Las Vegas officials say a cyber attack breached the city’s computer systems, the attack took place on Tuesday, but it wasn’t immediately clear if any sensitive data was exposed. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
Security flaws allowed hijacking any TikTok account

A flaw in the popular TikTok app could allow attackers to hijack any user account just by knowing the mobile number of the victim. Security experts from CheckPoint have discovered a critical vulnerability in the popular TikTok app that could be exploited by a remote attacker to hijack any user account just by knowing the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
SNAKE Ransomware is targeting business networks

A new piece of ransomware called SNAKE appeared in threat landscape, the malware is now targeting company networks. The SNAKE is a new ransomware that is threatening enterprises worldwide along with most popular ransomware families such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, LockerGoga, BitPaymer, DoppelPaymer, MegaCortex, LockerGoga. The scary trend sees criminal organizations targeting enterprises, instead of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
Medical info of 49,351 patients exposed in Alomere Health hospital breach

Minnesota-based Alomere Health discloses a data leak that exposed personal and medical information of 49,351 patients. Personal and medical information of 49,351 patients of Minnesota-based Alomere Health might have been exposed following the compromise of two employees’ email accounts. Alomere Health is a general medical and surgical hospital in Alexandria, MN, with 127 beds. It is accredited […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
MageCart gang compromised popular Focus Camera website

A new MageCart attack made the headlines, this time the gang compromised the website of popular Focus Camera. The Magecart group has compromised the website of the photography and imaging retailer Focus Camera. The hack took place last year, the hacker planted a software skimmer on the website to steal payment card data of users […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
China-based Bronze President APT targets South and East Asia

A cyber-espionage group tracked as Bronze President has been targeting countries in South and East Asia, Secureworks experts warn. Researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign carried out by an APT group tracked as Bronze President, The Bronze President group is targeting political and law enforcement organizations and NGOs […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
HappyHotel, popular search engine for love hotels in Japan discloses data breach

HappyHotel, a Japanese search engine used to find and book rooms in “love hotels,” announced to have suffered a security breach in December. HappyHotel is a popular Japanese search engine for “love hotels,” it is used by married couples and unfaithful spouses, it allows users to book rooms in love hotels in Japan. Almex, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2020
Microsoft report: around 0.08% of RDP brute-force attacks are successful

Microsoft published an interesting analysis of RDP brute-force attacks that targeted the 45,000 have analyzed in months of study. Researchers from Microsoft have analyzed several months’ worth of data to investigate RDP brute force attacks occurring across Microsoft Defender ATP customers. The study involved 45,000 machines that had both RDP public IP connections and at […]