Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2019
US continues to warn its allies over China’s “predatory approach” especially for 5G technology, this time US Secretary of State alerts Italy. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the recent meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio warned Italy of China’s “predatory approach” to trade and investment. Once again US is warning its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
Zendesk discloses a data breach that took place in 2016 when a hacker accessed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. In 2016, customer service software company Zendesk suffered a security breach that exposed data of 10,000 users, including passwords, emails, names, and phone numbers. Zendesk software is currently used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
Researcher discovered a double-free vulnerability in WhatsApp for Android that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable device. A security researcher that goes online with the moniker Awakened discovered a double-free vulnerability in WhatsApp for Android and demonstrated how to leverage on it to remotely execute arbitrary code on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
Authorities are investigating an American Express employee for unauthorized access to cardholder information and potentially abuse for fraud. Authorities launched a criminal investigation on an American Express employee that is suspected to accessed to cardholder information and potentially abused for fraud. Exposed information includes full name, physical and/or billing address, Social Security numbers, birth dates, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
A new wave of ransomware attacks hit US and Australian hospitals and health service providers causing the paralysis of their systems. Several hospitals and health service providers from the U.S. and Australia were hit by ransomware attacks that forced the administrators to shut part of their IT infrastructure. “Ten hospitals—three in Alabama and seven in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2019
Experts discovered an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster containing personally identifiable and tax information of Russian citizens exposed online. Security experts from Comparitech along with security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered 20 million tax records belonging to Russian citizens exposed online in clear text and without protection. The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
Iran ’s Passive Defense Organization chief Gholamreza Jalali declared that the US government has started its cyber war against the country. Gholamreza Jalali, Iran’s Passive Defense Organization chief, announced that that “America has started its cyber war against Iran, without providing more details. The news was reported by the ISNA news website on October 1, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
Adwind is back, a new variant of the popular RAT is targeting US petroleum industry entities with new advanced features. A new variant of the popular Adwind RAT (aka jRAT, AlienSpy, and JSocket) is targeting entities in the US petroleum industry. The new variant implements advanced features such as multi-layer obfuscation. The malware is distributed via a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
Demant, a leading international hearing health care company, expects to incur losses of up to $95 million following a ransomware attack. Last month, Demant suffered a cyber attack that caused important problems to its operations, the company has yet to recover after the attack, a circumstance that suggests it was hit by a ransomware attack. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2019
The malware expert Marco Ramilli collected a small set of VBA Macros widely re-used to “weaponize” Maldoc (Malware Document) in cyber attacks. Nowadays one of the most frequent cybersecurity threat comes from Malicious (office) document shipped over eMail or Instant Messaging. Some analyzed threats examples include: Step By Step Office Dropper Dissection, Spreading CVS Malware over Google, Microsoft […]
