Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2020
Microsoft shares new threat intelligence, the IT giant pointed out that malspam activities have not increased due to Coronavirus outbreak. In recent weeks, security firms and experts reported numerous Coronavirus-themed attacks, now Microsoft shares new threat intelligence on malicious activities during the pandemic. Despite threat actors are exploiting the current coronavirus pandemic to target users, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2020
The Australian government will use any means to crack down on cybercriminals exploiting the coronavirus outbreak, including hacking back. While the number of Coronavirus-themed attacks continues to increase, law enforcement agencies are spending a significant effort to detect and neutralize them. The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) announced it will employ its offensive cyber capabilities against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2020
This week, NASA sent out a memo to its personnel warning of a significant increase in the cyberattacks during the Coronavirus outbreak. NASA sent out a memo to its personnel warning of a significant increase in cyberattacks on the agency while its employees are in smart-working due to the Coronavirus outbreak. According to the Agency, roughly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2020
WhatsApp implements limitations on message forwarding to curb the spread of misinformation about the Coronavirus pandemic. WhatsApp implements a new policy on message forwarding to curb the spread of misinformation about the Coronavirus pandemic. With COVID19 outbreak the number of fake news that is spreading through social networks and instant messaging apps is growing exponentially. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2020
The drug testing firm Hammersmith Medicines Research LTD (HMR), which performs live trials of Coronavirus vaccines, discloses a data breach. Hammersmith Medicines Research LTD (HMR), a London-based company that carries out clinical trials for new medicines and that is on standby to perform live trials of Coronavirus vaccines, has suffered a data breach. On March 21, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2020
xHelper, a new strain of Android malware is able to re-install itself on infected devices even after victims delete it or force a factory reset. xHelper is a piece of malware that was first spotted in October 2019 by experts from security firm Symantec, it is a persistent Android dropper app that is able to reinstall itself even […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2020
A database stolen from the Italian email provider Email.it containing more than 600,000 users is available for sale on the dark web. The Italian email provider Email.it has been hacked, the company admitted the incident while a hacker group named NN Hacking Group is offering the stolen data for sale on the dark web. The group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2020
The European Agency for Cybersecurity ENISA has released a tool for the mapping of international security standards to interdependencies’ indicators. ENISA has released a tool for the mapping of international security standards to interdependencies’ indicators that have been introduced and demonstrated in the report Good practices on interdependencies between OES and DSPs. This ENISA report analyzed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2020
vpnMentor researchers discovered that the popular digital wallet application Key Ring exposed data belonging to millions of users in a huge data leak. The digital wallet application Key Ring recently exposed information from its 14 million users. Key Ring is a mobile application that allows users to create a digital wallet on their devices and use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2020
DarkHotel nation-state actor is exploiting a VPN zero-day to breach Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai Chinese security-firm Qihoo 360 has uncovered a hacking campaign conducted by a DarkHotel APT group (APT-C-06) aimed at Chinese government agencies in Beijing and Shanghai. State-sponsored hackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Sangfor SSL VPN servers to gain access […]
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