Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2018
A group of researchers discovered marketing companies have started exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in browsers’ built-in password managers to track visitors. A group of researchers from Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy has discovered that at least two marketing companies, AdThink and OnAudience, that are exploiting an 11-year-old vulnerability in major browsers to track visitors. The researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Experts from Bleeping Computer spotted a new Cryptomix Ransomware variant · Facebooks photo tagging system now looks for users in photos theyre not tagged in · Financially motivated attacks reveal the interests […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2017
The South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit has gone bankrupt after suffering a major cyber attack for the second time this year. The South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit shuts down after suffering a major cyber attack for the second time this year. The company announced bankrupt on Tuesday after being hacked for the second time in the last eight months, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2017
Experts from McAfee Labs collected evidence that links DragonFly malware to other hacking campaigns, like BlackEnergy and TeamSpy attacks. On September 6, Symantec published a detailed analysis of the Dragonfly 2.0 campaign that targeted dozens of energy companies this year. Threat actor is the same behind the Dragonfly campaign observed in 2014. Further analysis conducted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · National Institute of Standards and Technology releases a second Draft of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework · Security Affairs newsletter Round 140 – News of the week · Severe flaws in most popular […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · Halloware Ransomware, a new malware offered for sale on the Dark Web for Only $40 · PayPal-owned company TIO Networks data breach affects 1.6 million customers · Security Affairs newsletter Round 139 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2017
#OpUSA – OpIsrael – The hacker collective Anonymous threatens cyber attacks on US Government and launched the offensive against the Israeli targets. In the last hours, the hacktivists leaked online names, emails, and passwords of Israeli public employees and shared a list of US government sites to target, calling on action against them. Anonymous leaked data belonging to only a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, around 100,000 IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours · Security Affairs newsletter Round 138 – News of the week · The Cobalt […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! · A second variant of the new Cryptomix Ransomware released in a few days · Cash Converters suffered a data breach, users of the old webshop are at risk · De-authentication attack on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2017
Saudi Arabia announced to have detected an “advanced” cyber attack targeting the kingdom with the intent to disrupt government computers. On Monday, Saudi authorities announced to have detected an “advanced” cyber attack targeting the kingdom. According to the experts at the Saudi National Cyber Security Centre, the attackers aimed to disrupt government computers. The attackers […]
