Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2019
A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web, this time the huge trove of data appears to be originated from eight companies. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘gnosticplayers‘ is offering for sale the data on the Dream Market marketplace asking $14,500 worth of Bitcoin. Early this week, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2019
Moscow police department operatives, with the participation of Group-IB experts, took down a group of phone scammers who for several years have been extorting money from the elderly. Phone scammers typically managed to steal between 450 and 4500 USD per victim, promising substantial compensation for their purchases of medicines, medical devices or dietary supplements. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2019
The week closes with the news of another embarrassing data breach, the Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed a hack on Valentine’s Day. The dating app Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed that hackers breached its systems on Valentine’s Day and may have obtained access to users’ account data. The company notified the incident to account holders, the intrusion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2019
Germany announced it is going to make its cyber capabilities available for the NATO alliance to help fight hacking and electronic warfare. Germany is going to share its cyber warfare capabilities with the NATO alliance to protect members of the alliance against hacking and electronic warfare. During the 2016 Warsaw Summit, NATO officially recognised cyberspace […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2019
SAP released a collection of security fixes for February 2019 that address 13 vulnerabilities in its products, including a Hot News flaw in SAP HANA XSA. This week SAP addressed 13 vulnerabilities in its products with the released of the February 2019 set of security fixes, including a Hot News flaw in SAP HANA Extended […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2019
Bank of Valletta, the largest bank of Malta was hit by a cyber attack, attackers attempted to steal 13 million euros ($14.7 million). Bank of Valletta the largest bank in Malta that accounts for almost half of banking transactions in the country, had to shut down its operations on Wednesday after hackers attempted to withdraw 13 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2019
Experts at ACROS Securityâs 0patch released an unofficial patch for a recently disclosed remote code execution vulnerability in the Apache OpenOffice suite. ACROS Securityâs 0patch released an unofficial patch for a path traversal flaw recently disclosed in the Apache OpenOffice suite. The security researcher Alex InfĂŒhr discovered a severe remote code execution vulnerability in LibreOffice […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2019
Expert discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in default installations of Ubuntu Linux that resides in the snapd API. Security researcher Chris Moberly discovered a vulnerability in the REST API for Canonical’s snapd daemon that could allow attackers to gain root access on Linux machines. Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu Linux, promotes their âSnapâ packages to roll all […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2019
Researchers devised a new technique to hide malware in the security Intel SGX enclaves, making it impossible to detect by several security technologies. Security researchers devised a new technique to hide malware in the security Intel SGX enclaves. Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) is a technology for application developers that allows protecting select code and data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2019
A destructive cyberattack hit the email provider VFEmail, a hacker wiped its servers in the United States, including the backup systems. An unknown attacker has launched a destructive cyber attack against the email provider VFEmail, he erased information on its server including backups, 18 years’ worth of customer emails were lost. âWe have suffered catastrophic […]
