Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2019
Members of GozNym gang sentenced for stealing $100 Million

U.S. Justice Department announced that three members of the cybercrime group behind the GozNym banking Trojan have been sentenced to prison. U.S. Justice Department announced that three members of the cybercrime group behind the GozNym banking Trojan have been sentenced to prison. The crooks infected more than 4,000 victim computers globally with GozNym banking Trojan […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2019
Former contractor sentenced to 10 months in prison for hacking airline Jet2

A former contractor of British airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the airline’s systems for over 12 hours. Scott Burns, a former contractor of British low-cost airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the company systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2019
UK authorities sentenced hacker who blackmailed Apple for $100,000

A 22-year-old man was sentenced for his involvement in an extortion attempt against Apple, he threatened to mass-hack iCloud accounts. Kerem Albayrak, a 22-year-old man from North London who claimed to have access to over 300 million iCloud accounts and threatened to factory reset all accounts unless Apple pays a ransom, was sentenced today in London. In […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2019
Watch out, hackers are targeting CVE-2018-0296 Cisco fixed in 2018

Cisco has warned customers that hackers continue to target Cisco ASA and Firepower Appliance products by exploiting the CVE-2018-0296 flaw. Experts warn that threat actors continue to exploit the CVE-2018-0296 flaw to target Cisco ASA and Firepower Appliance. The vulnerability could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information through […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2019
Unveiling JsOutProx: A New Enterprise Grade Implant

Experts at Yoroi/Cybaze ZLab spotted a new sophisticated malware implant dubbed JsOutProx that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons. Introduction During our threat intelligence source monitoring operations, we spotted a new sophisticated malware implant, dubbed JsOutProx, that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons. In fact, the recovered sample raised many interrogatives […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2019
Payment card breach potentially impacts all locations of Wawa convenience store

Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach that may have exposed debit and credit card data from thousands of customers. Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach, its security team discovered a PoS malware on its payment processing systems. Wawa operates more than 860 convenience retail stores, this breach is potentially […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2019
Member of the Dark Overlord hacker Group extradited to the US

The DoJ announced that the alleged member of the notorious hacker group The Dark Overlord has been extradited to the United States. The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that the alleged member of The Dark Overlord hacking group has been extradited from the United Kingdom to the US. The man, Nathan Wyatt, 39, has been charged […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2019
Microsoft issues an out-of-band update to address SharePoint information disclosure flaw

Microsoft issues an out-of-band update to address SharePoint flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-1491, that could be exploited to obtain sensitive information. Microsoft issues an out-of-band update to fix an information disclosure vulnerability in SharePoint server, tracked as CVE-2019-1491, that could be exploited by an attacker to obtain sensitive information. “An information disclosure vulnerability exists in SharePoint […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2019
Flaws in Acer and ASUS pre-installed software could lead to arbitrary code execution

Experts found several flaws in Acer and ASUS software preinstalled on most of their PCs that could lead to privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution. SafeBreach experts discovered several vulnerabilities in Acer and ASUS software that comes pre-installed on most PCs from these vendors. The flaws could be exploited by attackers for privilege escalation and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2019
Lab test provider LifeLabs disclose a data breach that exposed personal info of 15M customers

Lab test provider LifeLabs has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal information for up to 15 million Canadians. Lab test provider LifeLabs announced that personal information for up to 15 million Canadians have been exposed after an unauthorized user gained access to their systems. LifeLabs notified its customers via letter, exposed data includes names, […]