Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2019
Good news for the victims of the JSWorm 2.0 ransomware, thanks to experts at Emsisoft they can decrypt their file for free. Experts at Emsisoft malware research team released a decrypter for a recently discovered ransomware tracked as JSWorm 2.0. JSWorm 2.0 is written in C++ and implements Blowfish encryption. The first version of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2019
Since April 2019, Group-IB has successfully blocked more than 43,000 links to pirated copies of the Game of Thrones Season 8 on pirate websites, forums, and social media As the Game of Thrones saga came to a close (no spoilers here), Group-IB has summed up the results of its anti-piracy campaign during Season 8 of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2019
Sophos is warning users of potential problems with the recent Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates and is saying to roll back it if they want the PC to boot. The security firm has informed its customers of potential problems with the latest Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates and is asking them to uninstall the patch if they […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2019
A recent MuddyWater campaign tracked as BlackWater shows that the APT group added new anti-detection techniques to its arsenal. Security experts at Cisco Talos attributed the recently spotted campaign tracked as “BlackWater” to the MuddyWater APT group (aka SeedWorm and TEMP.Zagros). The researchers also pointed out that the cyber espionage group has been updating its tactics, techniques, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2019
US Commerce Department will delay 90 days before to apply the announced Huawei ban to avoid huge disruption of the operations. During the weekend, the Reuters agency revealed in exclusive that Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the telco giant. On Thursday, President Trump added Huawei Technologies to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The news was first reported by the TechCrunch website, a database was left unprotected on an AWS bucket, anyone was able to access it without authentication. The unprotected database was discovered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-11815 could lead to privilege escalation, it received a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), announced that the company behind LeakedSource, Defiant Tech Inc., pleads guilty in Canada. Defiant Tech Inc., the company behind the LeakedSource.com website, pleaded guilty in Canada. The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. It reported some of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
Security researchers from Chronicle, Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have spotted a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. Security experts from Chronicle, the Alphabet’s cyber-security division, have discovered a Linux variant of the Winnti backdoor. It is the first time that researchers found a Linux version of the backdoor user by China-linked APT groups tacked as Winnti. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
The Reuters agency revealed in exclusive that Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the telco giant. The news a bomb, Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the Chinese telco giant. In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies […]
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