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San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department paid a $1.1M ransom

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that it has paid a $1.1-million ransom after the April ransomware attack. The…

3 years ago

Dragon Breath APT uses double-dip DLL sideloading strategy

An APT group tracked as Dragon Breath has been observed employing a new DLL sideloading technique. Sophos researchers observed an APT group,…

3 years ago

Security Affairs newsletter Round 418 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free…

3 years ago

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets

A security problem caused the public sharing of private tweets sent to Twitter Circles to users outside of the Circle,…

3 years ago

FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library

The FBI disrupted once again the illegal eBook library Z-Library the authorities seized several domains used by the service. The…

3 years ago

WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks

A reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability is the Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress exposed over 2 million sites to hacking.…

3 years ago

Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS

Fortinet has addressed a couple of high-severity vulnerabilities impacting FortiADC, FortiOS, and FortiProxy. Fortinet addressed nine security vulnerabilities affecting multiple…

3 years ago

Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French Senate one

The French Senate’s website was taken offline by a DDoS attack launched by the pro-Russian hacker group NoName. The pro-Russia…

3 years ago

North Korea-linked Kimsuky APT uses new recon tool ReconShark

North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky has been observed using a new reconnaissance tool dubbed ReconShark in a recent campaign. SentinelOne researchers observed an…

3 years ago

Fleckpe Android malware totaled +620K downloads via Google Play Store

Fleckpe is a new Android subscription Trojan that was discovered in the Google Play Store, totaling more than 620,000 downloads…

3 years ago

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