Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2020
The drug testing firm Hammersmith Medicines Research LTD (HMR), which performs live trials of Coronavirus vaccines, discloses a data breach. Hammersmith Medicines Research LTD (HMR), a London-based company that carries out clinical trials for new medicines and that is on standby to perform live trials of Coronavirus vaccines, has suffered a data breach. On March 21, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2020
A database stolen from the Italian email provider Email.it containing more than 600,000 users is available for sale on the dark web. The Italian email provider Email.it has been hacked, the company admitted the incident while a hacker group named NN Hacking Group is offering the stolen data for sale on the dark web. The group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2020
While the Coronavirus outbreak is threatening the world, the INTERPOL warns that crooks are increasingly targeting hospitals with ransomware. The INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organisation) is warning of ransomware attacks against hospitals despite the currently ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. Attackers are targeting organizations in the healthcare industry via malspam campaigns using malicious attachments. The attachments used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2020
vpnMentor researchers discovered that the popular digital wallet application Key Ring exposed data belonging to millions of users in a huge data leak. The digital wallet application Key Ring recently exposed information from its 14 million users. Key Ring is a mobile application that allows users to create a digital wallet on their devices and use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2020
DarkHotel nation-state actor is exploiting a VPN zero-day to breach Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai Chinese security-firm Qihoo 360 has uncovered a hacking campaign conducted by a DarkHotel APT group (APT-C-06) aimed at Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai. State-sponsored hackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Sangfor SSL VPN servers to gain access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2020
Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password. Then the attackers break into the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2020
OGUsers, one of the most popular hacking forums, was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year. The popular hacking forum OGUsers was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year, the news was first reported by ZDNet. OGUsers is a black marketplace […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2020
In this post, I decided to share the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from March 29 to April 04, 2020. Threat actors exploit the interest in the COVID19 outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below a list of attacks detected this week. March 30, 2020 – […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2020
Researchers spotted a new Coronavirus-themed attack, the messages pretend to be sent from the World Health Organization to deliver Lokibot infostealer. Security experts at FortiGuard Labs discovered a new Coronavirus-themed campaign using alleged messages from the World Health Organization (WHO) to deliver the LokiBot trojan. The campaign was uncovered on March 27 when the researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2020
Mozilla releases Firefox version 74.0.1 to address two vulnerabilities exploited by threat actors in attacks in the wild, users should update their browsers asap. Mozilla is urging users to install the latest version of its browser, Firefox 74.0.1, which addresses two bugs that are being exploited in the wild by threat actors. The two vulnerabilities […]
