Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2020
During the first day of the Pwn2Own 2020 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $180,000 for exploits targeting Windows 10, Ubuntu Desktop and macOS. The Coronavirus outbreak hasn’t stopped the Pwn2Own hacking conference, for the first time its organizer, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), has decided to arrange the event allowing the participants to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2020
Security researcher Marco Ramilli analyzed a new Coronavirus (COVID-19)-themed attack gathering evidence of the alleged involvement of an APT group. Scenario We are living hard time, many countries all around the world are hit by COVID-19 which happened to be a very dangerous disease. Unfortunately many deaths, thousands of infected people, few breathing equipment, stock […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2020
Threat actors exploit the interest in the Coronavirus outbreak while infections increase worldwide, new campaigns aim at spreading TrickBot and Emotet Trojans. Experts warn of new Coronavirus-themed attacks that are spreading TrickBot and Emotet Trojans. Operators behind these campaigns are using new Coronavirus-themed messages to attempt to bypass security software. The trend was first reported […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2020
Cisco has addressed a total of five vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN solution, including three high severity flaws. Cisco has addressed five vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN solution, including three high severity flaws. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by attackers to make unauthorized changes to the system, inject arbitrary commands that are executed with root permissions, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2020
VMware released security updates to address high severity privilege escalation and DoS in the Workstation, Fusion, VMware Remote Console and Horizon Client. VMware has released security updates to address high severity privilege escalation and denial-of-service (DoS) flaws in the Workstation, Fusion, Remote Console and Horizon Client. The two security vulnerabilities have been tracked as CVE-2020-3950 and CVE-2020-3951 respectively. The CVE-2020-3950 is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2020
Adobe has released a collection of out-of-band software updates that address a total of 41 vulnerabilities in six of its products. Adobe has released a set of out-of-band software updates that address a total of 41 vulnerabilities in six of its products. “Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS.” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2020
Trend Micro has addressed several serious vulnerabilities in its products, including two flaws that have been exploited in the wild. Trend Micro has released security updates to address several serious flaws in its Worry-Free Business Security, Apex One and OfficeScan products, including a couple of vulnerabilities that have been exploited by threat actors in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2020
The online guitar tutoring website TrueFire was compromised by hackers in a classic Magecart style attack that exposed customers’ payment card data. The popular online guitar tutoring website TrueFire has suffered a ‘Magecart‘ style security breach that might have exposed customers’ personal information and payment card data. TrueFire has over 1 million users, its customer could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2020
Most of the ransomware attacks targeting the enterprises occur outside working hours, during the nighttime or during the weekend. Security experts from FireEye published an interesting report on the Ransomware deployment trends, it revealed that most of the attacks (76%) against the enterprise sector occur outside working hours. FireEye compiled the report using data from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2020
Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and financial documents. “Whatever the intended purpose of this database was, over 500,000 highly sensitive and private […]
