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Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2020
Security Affairs newsletter Round 252

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs IOTA cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after a coordinated attack on its Trinity wallet Organizers of major hacking conferences in Asia put them on hold due to Coronavirus outbreak US administration requests $9.8B for cyber 2021 budget for […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2020
Google sued by New Mexico attorney general for collecting student data through its Education Platform

New Mexico sues Google for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from children. Google is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from students with an age of less than 13 years. The lawsuit was filed by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2020
ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia

Cisco Talos researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that was employed targeted attacks against organizations in Southeast Asia. Experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that appears a custom malware developed by a threat actor focused on government and diplomatic targets.  The malware was employed in targeted attacks against […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2020
Joker malware still able to bypass Google Play Store checks

The infamous Joker malware has found a way to bypass the security checks to be published in the official Play Store, new clicker was found by experts. The fight to the Joker malware (aka Bread) begun in September 2019 when security experts at Google removed from the official Play Store 24 apps because they were […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2020
Google removed nearly 600 apps from the Play Store for ad policy violation

Google announced to have removed nearly 600 Android apps in the official Play Store that were violating two ad-related policies. Google removed from the official Play Store nearly 600 Android apps that were violating two ad-related policies, it also banned the same apps from Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager. “As part of our ongoing […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2020
VMware addresses serious flaws in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter

VMware has addressed serious vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter, including remote code execution and authentication bypass flaws. VMware vRealize Operations is a software product that provides operations management across physical, virtual and cloud environments, it supports environments based on vSphere, Hyper-V or Amazon Web Services. Horizon Adapter instances created on VMware vRealize Operations Manager […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2020
Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments: Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later

Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments. Researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab gathered intelligence on the return of Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later Introduction The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2020
DOD DISA US agency discloses a security breach

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the DoD agency that is in charge of the security of IT and telecommunications for the White House and military troops has suffered a cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2020
Dragos Report: Analysis of ICS flaws disclosed in 2019

More than 400 flaws affecting industrial control systems (ICS) were disclosed in 2019, more than 100 were zero-day vulnerabilities. According to a report published by Dragos, the experts analyzed 438 ICS vulnerabilities that were reported in 212 security advisories, 26% of advisories is related to zero-day flaws. The experts determined 116 unique types of flaws, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2020
Croatia’s largest petrol station chain INA group hit by ransomware attack

Some operations at INA Group, Croatia’s biggest oil company, and its largest petrol station chain were disrupted by a cyber attack. A ransomware attack has disrupted operations at INA Group, Croatia’s biggest oil company, and its largest petrol station chain. INA, d.d. is a stock company with the Hungarian MOL Group and the Croatian Government as its biggest shareholders, […]