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Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2020
Facebook vs NSO Group lawsuit: 1,400+ users were targeted with Pegasus spyware

The legal dispute between Facebook and NSO group continues even after the Israeli surveillance firm filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this month. Facebook advocates have challenged a plea from spyware maker NSO Group to dismiss the legal dispute over the hacking accusations, arguing it has immunity from prosecution. Now both companies are […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2020
Experts found Symlink race issues in 28 antivirus products

Security experts from RACK911 Labs discovered “symlink race” vulnerabilities in 28 of the most popular antivirus products. Security researchers from RACK911 Labs disclose the discovery of “symlink race” issues in 28 of the most popular antivirus products. The flaws affect 28 products running on major OSs, including Linux, Mac, and Windows. “A symlink race is a kind […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020
Nintendo confirms that hackers might have hijacked 160,000 user accounts

Nintendo has disconnected the NNID legacy login system from main Nintendo profiles after it has discovered a massive account hijacking campaign. The gaming giant Nintendo announced that hackers gained accessed at least 160,000 user accounts as part of an account hijacking campaign since early April. The company launched an investigation after it has received several […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020
Hoaxcalls Botnet expands the target list and adds new DDoS capabilities

The Hoaxcalls IoT botnet expanded the list of targeted devices and has added new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. DDoS protection services provider Radware warns the Hoaxcalls Internet of Things (IoT) botnet has expanded the list of targeted devices, the experts also noticed that the operators implemented new distributed denial of service (DDoS) capabilities. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020
South Korean and US payment card details worth nearly $2M up for sale in the underground

Group-IB experts discovere a dump containing details for nearly 400,000 payment card records uploaded to a popular darknet cardshop on April 9. Singapore, 24/04/2020 – Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has detected a dump containing details for nearly 400,000 payment card records uploaded to a popular darknet cardshop on April 9. The database was comprised almost entirely of the payment records related to banks […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020
SeaChange video delivery software solutions provider hit by Sodinokibi ransomware

The popular SeaChange video platform is the latest victim of the Sodinokibi Ransomware gang, which is threatening to leak the stolen data. SeaChange International, the multinational supplier of video delivery software solutions, was the victim of the Sodinokibi Ransomware gang. The crew has published images of the data they claim to have stolen before encrypting the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2020
NSA and ASD issue a report warning of web shells deployments

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 offers bigger rewards for Firefox flaws under its bug bounty program

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
Expert identifies new Nazar APT group referenced in 2017 Shadow Brokers leak

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
Vietnam-linked APT32 group launches COVID-19-themed attacks against China

The Vietnam-linked cyberespionage group tracked as APT32 carried out hacking campaigns against Chinese entities to collect intelligence on the COVID-19 crisis. Vietnam-linked APT group APT32, also known as OceanLotus and APT-C-00, carried out cyber espionage campaigns against Chinese entities to gather intelligence on the COVID-19 crisis. The APT32 group has been active since at least 2012, […]