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Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2020
Visa shares details for two attacks on North American hospitality merchants

Visa revealed that two unnamed North American hospitality merchants have been infected with some strains of point-of-sale (POS) malware. US payments processor Visa revealed that two North American hospitality merchants have been hacked, threat actors infected the systems of the two unnamed organizations with some strains of point-of-sale (POS) malware. According to a security alert […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2020
Security Affairs newsletter Round 284

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Apple addresses four vulnerabilities in macOS Google removes 17 Joker -infected apps from the Play Store Microsoft took down 18 Azure AD apps used by Chinese Gadolinium APT Mount Locker […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2020
HP Device Manager flaws expose Windows systems to hack

HP published details of three vulnerabilities in the HP Device Manager that could be exploited by attackers to take over Windows systems. HP released a security advisory that includes details for three critical and high severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-6925, CVE-2020-6926, and CVE-2020-6927, that impact the HP Device Manager. The IT giant revealed that an attacker could […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2020
University Hospital New Jersey paid a $670K ransom

University Hospital New Jersey paid a $670,000 ransom this month to prevent the leak of 240 GB of stolen data, including patient information. The University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) in Newark (New Jersey) has finally paid a $670,000 ransom to prevent the publishing of 240 GB of stolen data, including patient info. In September, systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2020
How to check if an email or a domain was used in Emotet attacks?

Cyber security firm launches a new service that allows users to check if an email domain or address was part of an Emotet spam campaign. Experts worldwide warn about a surge in the Emotet activity, recently Microsoft along Italy and the Netherlands CERT/CSIRT agencies reported a significant increase of Emotet attacks targeting the private sector and public […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2020
Netwalker ransomware operators leaked files stolen from K-Electric

K-Electric, Pakistan’s largest private power company, did not pay the ransom and the Netwalker ransomware operators have leaked the stolen data. In early September, K-Electric (KE), the electricity provider for the city of Karachi, Pakistan, was hit by a Netwalker ransomware attack that blocked billing and online services. K-Electric is the largest power supplier in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2020
Flaws in leading industrial remote access systems allow disruption of operations

Experts found critical security flaws in two popular industrial remote access systems that could be exploited by threat actors for malicious purposes. Security researchers from Israeli firm OTORIO found critical vulnerabilities in leading industrial remote access systems that could be exploited by attackers to ban access to industrial production floors, hack into company networks, tamper […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2020
Twitter removed around 130 Iranian accounts for interference in US Presidential debate

Twitter removed around 130 Iranian accounts for attempting to disrupt the public recent US Presidential Debate. The social media giant Twitter announced to have removed around 130 Iranian Twitter accounts that attempted to disrupt the public conversation during the recent first Presidential Debate for the US 2020 Presidential Election. The company confirmed that it discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2020
North Korea APT group targeted tens of UN Security Council officials

North Korea-linked APT group targeted UN Security Council officials over the past year, states a report from the United Nations organ. A North-Korea-linked cyber espionage group has launched spear-phishing attacks aimed at compromising tens of officials from the United Nations Security Council. The campaign targeted at least 28 UN officials, including at least 11 individuals […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2020
Developer successfully compiled leaked source code for MS Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 OSs

Last week, the source code for MS Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 OSs were leaked online, now a developer successfully compiled them. Last week, the source code for Microsoft’s Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems was published as a torrent file on the bulletin board website 4chan. This is the first time […]