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Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2019

Emsisoft released a free Decrypter for the GetCrypt ransomware

For the second time in a few days, experts at Emsisoft released a free decrypter, this time to help victims of the GetCrypt ransomware. Security experts at Emsisoft released a new decrypted in a few days, it could be used for free by victims of the GetCrypt ransomware to decrypt their files encrypted by the malware. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2019

ActiveX Controls in South Korean websites are affected by critical flaws

Security experts discovered tens of critical vulnerabilities were found in 10 South Korean ActiveX controls as part of a short research project. Security researchers at Risk Based Security have discovered tens of critical vulnerabilities in 10 South Korean ActiveX controls as part of a research project. The experts discovered that many South Korean websites still […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2019

G Suite users’ passwords stored in plain-text for more than 14 years

Google accidentally stored the passwords of its G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years allowing its employees to access them. The news is disconcerting, Google has accidentally stored the passwords of the G Suite users in plain-text for 14 years, this means that every employee in the company was able to access them. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2019

SandboxEscaper is back with a new Windows Zero-Day in Task Scheduler

SandboxEscaper is back with a new Windows Zero-Day in Win 10 Task Scheduler The developer SandboxEscaper makes the line again, this time he publicly released the exploit code for a Windows zero-day that affect the Windows 10 Task Scheduler. Since August 2018, the expert already revealed other four Windows zero-day vulnerabilities without reporting them to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2019

The Satan Ransomware adds new exploits to its arsenal

A variant of the Satan ransomware recently observed includes exploits to its arsenal and targets machines leveraging additional flaws. Experts at FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new variant of the Satan ransomware that includes new exploits to its portfolio and leverages additional vulnerabilities to infect as many machines as possible. The Satan ransomware first appeared […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2019

Emsisoft released a free Decrypter for JSWorm 2.0

Good news for the victims of the JSWorm 2.0 ransomware, thanks to experts at Emsisoft they can decrypt their file for free. Experts at Emsisoft malware research team released a decrypter for a recently discovered ransomware tracked as JSWorm 2.0. JSWorm 2.0 is written in C++ and implements Blowfish encryption. The first version of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2019

Group-IB blocked more than 180,000 links to pirated copies of Game of Thrones

Since April 2019, Group-IB has successfully blocked more than 43,000 links to pirated copies of the Game of Thrones Season 8 on pirate websites, forums, and social media As the Game of Thrones saga came to a close (no spoilers here), Group-IB has summed up the results of its anti-piracy campaign during Season 8 of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2019

MuddyWater BlackWater campaign used new anti-detection techniques

A recent MuddyWater campaign tracked as BlackWater shows that the APT group added new anti-detection techniques to its arsenal. Security experts at Cisco Talos attributed the recently spotted campaign tracked as “BlackWater” to the MuddyWater APT group (aka SeedWorm and TEMP.Zagros). The researchers also pointed out that the cyber espionage group has been updating its tactics, techniques, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2019

US Commerce Department delays Huawei ban for 90 Days

US Commerce Department will delay 90 days before to apply the announced Huawei ban to avoid huge disruption of the operations. During the weekend, the Reuters agency revealed in exclusive that Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the telco giant. On Thursday, President Trump added Huawei Technologies to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019

Data belonging to Instagram influencers and celebrities exposed online

A new data leak made the headlines, a database containing the contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The news was first reported by the TechCrunch website, a database was left unprotected on an AWS bucket, anyone was able to access it without authentication. The unprotected database was discovered […]