Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2020
Ritzau, the biggest Danish news agency, was hit by a ransomware attack that brought it offline but refused to pay the ransom. Ritzau, the biggest Danish news agency, was hit by a ransomware attack that brought it offline. The cyber attack hit a quarter of Ritzau âs 100 servers that have been damaged. The agency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2020
Researcher discovers a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 while he was working on a Windows security tool. The French security researcher ClĂ©ment Labro discovered a zero-day vulnerability was discovered while the security researcher was working on an update Windows security tool. The researcher was developing his own Windows privilege escalation enumeration […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2020
Security expert Tolijan Trajanovski analyzed an SSH-backdoor Botnet that implements an interesting âResearchâ infection technique. In a recent tweet, the malware researcher @0xrb shared a list containing URLs of recently captured IoT botnet samples. Among the links, there was an uncommon example, a URL behind a Discord CDN, which as pointed by the IoT malware researcher @_lubiedo, may be difficult […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2020
Belden, the manufacturer of networking and cable products, disclosed a data breach, threat actors have stolen employee and business information. The manufacturer of networking and cable products Belden disclosed a data breach, the company revealed that attackers gained âunauthorized access and copying of some current and former employee data, as well as limited company information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2020
Retail giant Home Depot has agreed to a $17.5 million settlement in a multi-state investigation of the data breach that the company suffered in 2014. The US largest home improvement retailer giant Home Depot agrees to $17.5 million settlement over the 2014 data breach. In 2014, Home Depot revealed that the data breach impacted 56 million customers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2020
Researchers spotted a new mobile malware dubbed WAPDropper that subscribes users to legitimate premium-rate services. Security researchers from Check Point have spotted a new malware family dubbed WAPDropper that targets mobile phone users to subscribe them to legitimate premium-rate services. Check Point experts observed the WAPDropper subscribing unaware users to premium services from legitimate telecommunications […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2020
Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has presented its annual Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2020/2021 report. In the report, the company examines key shifts in the cybercrime world internationally between H2 2019 and H1 2020 and gives forecasts for the coming year. The most severe financial damage has occurred as a result of ransomware activity. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2020
The UK NCSC issued an alert to urge organizations to patch the critical CVE-2020-15505 RCE vulnerability in MobileIron MDM systems. The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) issued an alert urging organizations to address the critical CVE-2020-15505 remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in MobileIron mobile device management (MDM) systems. MDM platforms allow administrators to remotely manage a fleet of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2020
2FA bypass discovered in web hosting software cPanel More than 70 million sites are managed via cPanel software, according to the company. Researchers discovered a major issue in cPanel that could be exploited by attackers to bypass two-factor authentication for cPanel accounts. Security researchers from Digital Defense have discovered a major security issue in cPanel, a popular […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2020
Two Baidu Android apps have been removed from the Google Play Store in October after they’ve been caught collecting sensitive user details. Two apps belonging to Chinese tech giant Baidu, Baidu Maps and Baidu Search Box, have been removed from the Google Play Store at the end of October after they’ve been caught collecting sensitive […]
