Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2019
Twitter admitted having “inadvertently” used phone numbers and email addresses, collected for security purposes, for advertising. Twitter apologized to have used phone numbers and email addresses, privided by the users for security purposes, for advertising. According to the social media company, data used for account authentication were also matched with advertisers’ database to improve the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2019
Security researchers discovered a code-execution vulnerability that affects versions through 9.0.4 of the Ghidra software reverse engineering (SRE) framework. GHIDRA is a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that runs on major OSs (Windows, macOS, and Linux). The framework was first mentioned in the CIA Vault 7 dump that was leaked in 2017. WikiLeaks obtained thousands of files allegedly originating from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2019
One of the victims of the Muhstik ransomware gang who initially paid the ransomware, decided to hack back the crooks and released their decryption keys. Tobias Frömel, is a German software developer, who was a victim of the Muhstik ransomware. Frömel initially paid the ransom to decrypt his files, but later decided to get his […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2019
Patches for Internet Explorer Zero-Day Causing Problems for Many Users Microsoft released a new set of patches for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer recently fixed due to problems reported by users with the previous patch. On September 23, Microsoft released an out-of-band patch to address a zero-day memory corruption flaw in Internet Explorer (CVE-2019-1367) that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2019
The United States and Baltic announced cooperation to protect the Baltic energy grid from cyber attacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid. The US and Baltic agreed to cooperate to protect the Baltic energy grid from cyber attacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid. US Energy Secretary Rick Perry and counterparts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2019
The popular data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) has added the stolen data from the StreetEasy and Sephora data incidents. Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP), the popular service that allows users to check whether their personal data has been compromised by data breaches has added the stolen data from the StreetEasy and Sephora data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2019
Four restaurant chains in the U.S. disclosed payment card theft via PoS malware that took place over the summer. Four restaurant chains in the United States disclosed security breaches that impacted their payment systems over the summers, crooks used PoS malware to steal payment card data of the customers. The restaurant chains are McAlister’s Deli, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2019
Microsoft says that the Iran-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as Phosphorus (aka APT35, Charming Kitten, Newscaster, and Ajax Security Team) a 2020 presidential campaign. Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) revealed that an Iran-linked APT group tracked as Phosphorus (aka APT35, Charming Kitten, Newscaster, and Ajax Security Team) attempted to access to email accounts belonging to current and former US government officials, journalists, Iranians living abroad, and individuals […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! Hacker claims to have stolen over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2019
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of attacks exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Pulse Secure According to the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), advanced persistent threat (APT) groups have been exploiting recently disclosed VPN vulnerabilities in enterprise VPN products in attacks in the wild. Threat actors […]
