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Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2021
Ticketmaster will pay $10 Million fine over hacking a competitor

Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million fine for hacking into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. The news is disturbing, Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million fine after being charged with illegally accessing computer systems into the computer system of the startup rival CrowdSurge. The intrusions into the competitor’s systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2021
Top stories of 2020

Below the list of the top stories of 2020. December 21 – SUPERNOVA, a backdoor found while investigating SolarWinds hack While investigating the recent SolarWinds Orion supply-chain attack security researchers discovered another backdoor, tracked SUPERNOVA. August 2 – Garmin allegedly paid for a decryptor for WastedLocker ransomware BleepingComputer researchers confirmed that Garmin has received the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2021
FBI warns swatting attacks on owners of smart devices

The Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI) is warning owners of smart home devices with voice and video capabilities of ‘swatting’ attacks. The FBI has recently issued an alert to warn owners of smart home devices with voice and video capabilities of so-called “swatting” attacks. Swatting attacks consist of hoax calls made to emergency services, typically reporting […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2021
AutoHotkey-Based credential stealer targets bank in the US and Canada

Experts spotted a new credential stealer written in AutoHotkey (AHK) scripting language that is targeting the US and Canadian bank customers. Security experts from Trend Micro have discovered a new credential stealer written in AutoHotkey (AHK) scripting language that is targeting the US and Canadian bank customers as part of an ongoing campaign that has […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2021
Facebook ads used to steal 615000+ credentials in a phishing campaign

Cybercriminals are abusing Facebook ads in a large-scale phishing scam aimed at stealing victims’ login credentials. Researchers from security firm ThreatNix spotted a new large-scale campaign abusing Facebook ads. Threat actors are using Facebook ads to redirect users to Github accounts hosting phishing pages used to steal victims’ login credentials. The campaign targeted more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2021
Expert found a secret backdoor in Zyxel firewall and VPN

Zyxel addressed a critical flaw in its firmware, tracked as CVE-2020-29583, related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. The Taiwanese vendor Zyxel has addressed a critical vulnerability in its firmware related to the presence of a hardcoded undocumented secret account. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-29583 received a CVSS score of 7.8, it could be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2021
Today Adobe Flash Player reached the end of life (EOL)

Today Adobe Flash Player has reached its end of life (EOL), its vulnerabilities were exploited by multiple threat actors in attacks in the wild over the years. Adobe Flash Player has reached the end of life (EOL) today, over the years, threat actors have exploited multiple vulnerabilities in the popular software. Adobe will no longer […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2021
Alleged docs relating to Covid-19 vaccine leaked in darkweb

Experts from threat intelligence firm Cyble have found documents relating to Covid-19 vaccine of European Medicines Agency in the Darkweb Security experts from threat intelligence firm Cyble have found several documents relating to the Covid-19 vaccine allegedly stolen from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) leaked in the Darkweb. While the pandemic is spreading on a […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2020
SolarWinds hackers gained access to Microsoft source code

The threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack could have had access to the source code of several Microsoft products. The threat actors behind the SolarWinds attack could have compromised a small number of internal accounts and used at least one of them to view source code in a number of source code repositories. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2020
Threat actor is selling 368.8 million records from 26 data breaches

A data breach broker is selling user records allegedly from twenty-six data breaches on a hacker forum. Security experts from Bleeping Computer reported that a threat actor is selling user records allegedly stolen from twenty-six companies on a hacker forum. The total volume of data available for sale is composed of 368.8 million stolen user […]