Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2020
Amazon, IBM and now Microsoft ban the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments and are urging for federal laws to regulate its use. Microsoft has joined Amazon and IBM in banning the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments, the tech giants are also urging for federal laws to regulate the use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2020
Maze ransomware operators hit Threadstone Advisors LLP, a US corporate advisory firm specialising in mergers ‘n’ acquisitions. Threadstone Advisors LLP, a corporate advisory firm specialising in mergers ‘n’ acquisitions, is the last victim of the Maze ransomware operators. MAZE ransomware operators have stolen the data of the company before encrypting its systems and threaten to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2020
Florence City in Alabama will pay a $300,000 ransom worth of Bitcoins after its computer system was infected with a ransomware. The Council of Florence City voted unanimously at an emergency meeting this week pay the ransom requested by attackers that hit the City’s system. The payment will me made using the city’s insurance fund […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2020
Microsoft addressed a Server Message Block (SMB) protocol issue, named SMBleed, that could allow an attacker to leak kernel memory remotely, without authentication. Recently released Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday updates also address a vulnerability in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol dubbed SMBleed (CVE-2020-1206) that could allow an attacker to leak kernel memory remotely, without […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2020
VMware has addressed a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting its Workstation, Fusion and vSphere virtualization products. VMware has addressed a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3960, that affects its Workstation, Fusion and vSphere virtualization products. The CVE-2020-3960 flaw was discovered by Cfir Cohen, a researcher from Google’s cloud security team. ESXi, Workstation and Fusion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2020
Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday address 129 vulnerabilities, 11 flaws are rated as Critical while 118 are rated as Important in severity. Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday address 129 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based and Chromium-based in IE Mode), ChakraCore, Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Windows Defender, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2020
Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in its Flash Player, Framemaker and Experience Manager products. Adobe has released security updates to address ten vulnerabilities in its Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Experience Manager, and Adobe Framemaker products. Four vulnerabilities out of ten are rated as ‘Critical,’ they could allow a remote attacker to execute […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2020
A threat actor is offering for sale in a darkweb black-market internal documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). Researchers from cyber threat intelligence firm Cyble reported that a threat actor is offering in a darkweb black-market documents of the Indian defence contractor Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML). The company manufactures a variety […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2020
A Korean threat actor, tracked as Higaisa, has been using malicious LNK files in recent attacks aimed at organizations that use the Zeplin collaboration platform. The Korean threat actor Higaisa, has been using malicious LNK files in recent attacks aimed at organizations that use the Zeplin collaboration platform. The group is believed to be a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2020
Researchers uncovered a malware campaign that is targeting Windows and Linux servers with a Golang-based malicious code called Stealthworker. Akamai researchers uncovered a malware campaign spreading a Golang-based malicious code tracked as Stealthworker. The malware targets Windows and Linux servers running popular web services and platforms including (i.e. cPanel / WHM, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, OpenCart, Magento, […]
