Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs IOTA cryptocurrency shuts down entire network after a coordinated attack on its Trinity wallet Organizers of major hacking conferences in Asia put them on hold due to Coronavirus outbreak US administration requests $9.8B for cyber 2021 budget for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2020
New Mexico sues Google for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from children. Google is facing a new lawsuit for allegedly using the Google for Education platform to gather personal and private data from students with an age of less than 13 years. The lawsuit was filed by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2020
Cisco Talos researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that was employed targeted attacks against organizations in Southeast Asia. Experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that appears a custom malware developed by a threat actor focused on government and diplomatic targets. The malware was employed in targeted attacks against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2020
The infamous Joker malware has found a way to bypass the security checks to be published in the official Play Store, new clicker was found by experts. The fight to the Joker malware (aka Bread) begun in September 2019 when security experts at Google removed from the official Play Store 24 apps because they were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2020
VMware has addressed serious vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter, including remote code execution and authentication bypass flaws. VMware vRealize Operations is a software product that provides operations management across physical, virtual and cloud environments, it supports environments based on vSphere, Hyper-V or Amazon Web Services. Horizon Adapter instances created on VMware vRealize Operations Manager […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2020
Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments. Researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab gathered intelligence on the return of Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later Introduction The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2020
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the DoD agency that is in charge of the security of IT and telecommunications for the White House and military troops has suffered a cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2020
More than 400 flaws affecting industrial control systems (ICS) were disclosed in 2019, more than 100 were zero-day vulnerabilities. According to a report published by Dragos, the experts analyzed 438 ICS vulnerabilities that were reported in 212 security advisories, 26% of advisories is related to zero-day flaws. The experts determined 116 unique types of flaws, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2020
Adobe released out-of-band security updates for After Effects and Media Encoder applications that address two new critical vulnerabilities. Adobe released out-of-band security updates for After Effects and Media Encoder applications that fix two new critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-3765, CVE-2020-3764). Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application developed and used in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2020
Cisco has released security updates to address 17 vulnerabilities affecting its networking and unified communications product lines. Cisco has released security patches to fix 17 vulnerabilities affecting its networking and unified communications product lines. The types of fixed vulnerabilities include remote access and code execution, elevation of privilege, denial of service, and cross-site request forgeries. One of […]
