Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2020
A joint report released by the U.S. NSA and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) warns of attackers increasingly exploiting vulnerable web servers to deploy web shells. A joint report published by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) is warning of bad actors increasingly exploiting vulnerable web servers to deploy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2020
Mozilla announced some changes to its Firefox bug bounty program, it promises bigger rewards for vulnerabilities and will accept duplicate reports if necessary. Mozilla announced some major changes to its bug bounty program that was first launched in 2004. The organization paid out $965,750 for roughly 350 vulnerabilities, the average payout for each issue was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2020
A security expert uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in 2017. Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, a former Kaspersky and Google researcher, uncovered an old APT operation, tracked Nazar, by analyzing the NSA hacking tools included in the dump leaked by Shadow Brokers in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2020
With smart-working many companies turn to tools like robotic process automation (RPA software) to help make adjustments on the business processes … is it secure? In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, many companies have adjusted how they do business. As they shift to remote work and establish new policies, some companies find these changes to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2020
Two zero-day flaws in the default mailing app pre-installed on iPhones and iPads allow attackers to hack the devices just by sending emails. Experts at cybersecurity firm ZecOps have discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhone and iPad devices that have been exploited in a series of attacks that targeted iOS high-profile users since at least January 2018. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2020
The City of Torrance of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California, is the last victim of the DoppelPaymer Ransomware, hackers also stole its data. On Sunday, the computer systems in the city of Torrance suffered a cyber attack that interrupted access to email accounts and server functions. The City of Torrance is located in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2020
Security researchers from Volexity discovered a new Insomnia iOS exploit that was being used to spy on China’s Uyghur minority. The Uyghur group is a Turkic minority ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central and East Asia. “The Uyghurs are recognized by the Chinese government only as a regional […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2020
The OpenSSL Project has released a security update for OpenSSL that addresses a DoS vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-1967. The OpenSSL Project released a security update for OpenSSL that patches a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-1967, that can be exploited by attackers to launch denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. This is the first issue addressed in OpenSSL in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2020
A security researcher disclosed details of four zero-day flaws impacting an IBM security product after the IT giant refused to address them. The security researcher Pedro Ribeiro, Director of Research at Agile Information Security, has published details about four zero-day vulnerabilities affecting the IBM Data Risk Manager (IDRM) after the company refused to address the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2020
The increasing number of news articles circulating on the internet in the wake of COVID-19 has resulted in the rise of Phishing attacks which feed on people’s fears. Phishing emails have been driven up to 600% since the end of February as cybercriminals capitalize on people’s fears. COVID-19 phishing emails have been said to make […]
