Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2020
Security experts from Sophos discovered 25 Android apps on the official Google Play that were involved in financial fraud, 600 million affected. Security researchers from Sophos discovered a set of so-called fleeceware apps that have been installed by more than 600 million Android users. Fleeceware apps are malicious applications uploaded to the official Google Play […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2020
Researchers published proof-of-concept (PoC) code exploits for a recently-patched CVE-2020-0601 flaw in the Windows operating system reported by NSA. Security researchers have published two proof-of-concept (PoC) code exploits for the recently-patched CVE-2020-0601 vulnerability that has been reported to Microsoft by the US National Security Agency (NSA). Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for January 2020 address a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2020
The cybercrime group behind Satan ransomware and other malware seems to be involved in the development of a new threat named 5ss5c. The threat actors behind the Satan, DBGer and Lucky ransomware and likely Iron ransomware, is back with a new piece of malware named ‘5ss5c’. The Bart Blaze believes that the threat actors have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2020
VMware has released security updates to address a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Tools version 10 for Windows. VMware has released VMware Tools 11.0.0 that addresses a local privilege escalation issue in Tools 10.x.y tracked as CVE-2020-3941. The issue, classified as a race condition flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2020
P&N Bank discloses data breach, customer account information, balances exposed The Australian P&N Bank is notifying its customers a data breach that has exposed personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive account data. P&N Bank, a division of Police & Nurses Limited and operating in Western Australia, suffered a data breach and is reporting the incident […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2020
49 million user records from US data broker LimeLeads were available for sale on a hacking forum. 49 million user records from US data broker LimeLeads were available for sale on a hacking forum, the data were exposed on an Elasticsearch server. Exposed LimeLeads data contains full name, title, user email, employer/company name, company address, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2020
Tech giant Cisco has recently addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Webex and IOS XE Software products. Cisco Systems has released security fixes for two high-severity vulnerabilities in its products, including a remote code execution flaw in the Webex video conferencing platform. The Webex flaw resides in the web-based management interface of Cisco Webex Video […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2020
A group of anonymous security researchers that calls itself Intrusion Truth have tracked the activity of a China-linked cyber–espionage group dubbed APT40. A group of anonymous security researchers that calls itself Intrusion Truth has discovered that a China-linked cyberespionage group, tracked as APT40, uses 13 front companies operating in the island of Hainan to recruit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2020
U.S. officials responsible for national security and telecommunications were meeting their peers in Britain ahead of the final decision on Huawei 5G technology. U.S. officials responsible for national security and telecommunications were meeting their peers in Britain in the attempt to convince U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government to ban Huawei 5G technology from its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2020
Facebook addressed last week a security flaw that exposed page admin accounts, the bug was exploited against several high-profile pages. Last week Facebook has addressed a security issue that exposed page admin accounts, the bug was exploited in attacks in the wild against several high-profile pages. The page admin accounts are anonymous unless the Page […]
