Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2020
The Department of Justice has charged the two Chinese nationals for laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea-linked APT groups. The US Treasury Department and the Department of Justice have imposed sanctions and charged two Chinese nationals, Tian Yinyin ( 田寅寅) and Li Jiadong (李家东), for helping North Korea-linked hackers in laundering cryptocurrency. The cryptocurrency have been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2020
Pharmacy store chain Walgreens has disclosed a data breach that impacted some customers of its mobile application. Pharmacy store chain Walgreens has disclosed a data breach that impacted some customers of its mobile application. The mobile app allows users to refill prescriptions by scanning barcode, manage medications with Pill Reminder, set Rx alerts for refills […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2020
Experts warn of ongoing scans for Apache Tomcat servers affected by the Ghostcat flaw that could allow attackers to take over servers. Security experts are warning of ongoing scans for Apache Tomcat servers affected by the recently disclosed Ghostcat vulnerability CVE-2020-1938. The flaw affects all versions of Apache Tomcat, it could be exploited by attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2020
Experts from Cybaze/ Yoroi Zlab spotted a new sample of the Karkoff implant that was employed in past campaigns associated with Iran-linked APT34 group.Experts from Cybaze/ Yoroi Zlab spotted a new sample of the Karkoff implant that was employed in past campaigns associated with Iran-linked APT34 group. Introduction In November 2018, researchers from Cisco Talos […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2020
SurfingAttack is an attacking technique that allows to wake up mobile device and control them using voice commands encoded in ultrasonic waves. SurfingAttack is a hacking technique that sees voice commands encoded in ultrasonic waves silently activate a mobile phone’s digital assistant. The technique could be used to do several actions such as making phone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2020
A power outage and fluctuations in supply across Venezuela 1 March 2020, knocked out approximately 35% of the country’s telecommunications infrastructure. The NetBlocks internet observatory, which tracks disruptions and shutdowns, reported that yesterday (March 1, 2020) a massive power outage across Venezuela that knocked out a large part of the country’s connectivity to the Internet. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2020
US Congress passed legislation offering $1 billion to help telecom carriers “rip and replace” equipment from Chinese giants Huawei and ZTE. On Thursday, US lawmakers have passed legislation that plans to give $1 billion to telecom carriers to “rip and replace” equipment from Chinese tech giants Huawei and ZTE. The measure approved by the Senate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2020
Security experts uncovered an ongoing campaign delivering Nemty Ransomware via emails disguised as messages from secret lovers. Researchers from Malwarebytes and X-Force IRIS have uncovered an ongoing spam campaign distributing the Nemty Ransomware via messages disguised as messages from secret lovers. The attackers employed messages with several subject lines and attachment filenames composed to appear […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2020
The Israeli marketing firm Straffic accidentally exposed 49 million unique email addresses stored in an Elasticsearch database. The Israeli marketing firm Straffic exposed 49 million unique email addresses due to mishandled credentials for an Elasticsearch database. The credentials for the company archive were stored in plain text on an unprotected web server. Straffic notified the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2020
This week, several media reported that agents of the Russian intelligence reportedly went to Ireland to inspect the undersea cables. The Sunday Times reported that Russian intelligence agents have been sent to Ireland to gather detailed information on the undersea cables that connect Europe to North America. The news is alarming, intelligence agencies fear that […]
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