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Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2018

Microsoft uncovered and stopped attempts to launch spear-phishing attacks on three 2018 congressional candidates

Microsoft helped the US Government is protecting at least three 2018 midterm election candidates from attacks of Russian cyberspies. Microsoft revealed that Russian cyberspies attempted to hack at least three 2018 midterm election candidates and it has helped the US government to repeal their attacks. A Microsoft executive speaking at the Aspen Security Forum revealed the hacking attempts against […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2018

‘IT system issue’ caused cancellation of British Airways cancelled flights at Heathrow

British Airways canceled flights at Heathrow due to an ‘IT system issue,’ the incident occurred on Wednesday and affected thousands of passengers. The problem had severe repercussions on the air traffic, many passengers also had their flights delayed. “On one of the busiest days of the summer, British Airways cancelled dozens of flights to and from Heathrow, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2018

Thousands of Mega account credentials leaked online, it is credential stuffing

Thousands of account credentials associated with the popular file storage service Mega have been published online, The former NSA hacker Patrick Wardle, co-founder at Digita Security, discovered in June a text file containing over 15,500 usernames, passwords, and files names. Found file on VirusTotal w/ 15K+ Mega accounts (user names/passwords & users' file listings) […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2018

Expert discovered RoboCent AWS S3 bucket containing US voters’ records exposed online

A security researcher has discovered that the US political robocall firm RoboCent exposed personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters. The US political robocall firm RoboCent exposed personal details of hundreds of thousands of US voters. The researcher Bob Diachenko from Kromtech Security discovered the company database exposed online. The expert was using the online service GrayhatWarfare that could be […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018

How crooks conduct Money Laundering operations through mobile games

Experts uncovered a money laundering ring that leverages fake Apple accounts and gaming profiles to make transactions with stolen payment cards. A money laundering ring leverages fake Apple accounts and gaming profiles to make transactions with stolen payment cards and then sells these game premiums on online forums and within gaming communities. The money laundering […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018

US Biggest Blood Testing Laboratories LabCorp suffered a security breach

Hackers have breached the network at LabCorp, one of the largest diagnostic blood testing laboratories in the US, millions of Americans potentially at risk. The biggest blood testing laboratories network in the US, LabCorp has suffered a security breach. The company announced the incident on Monday, the security breach occurred over the weekend. The hackers breached into […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018

QUASAR, SOBAKEN AND VERMIN RATs involved in espionage campaign on Ukraine

Security experts from ESET uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign aimed at Ukrainian government institutions and involving three different RATs, including the custom-made VERMIN. Security researchers from ESET uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign aimed at Ukrainian government institutions, attackers used at least three different remote access Trojans (RATs). The campaign was first spotted in January by […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2018

Cyber espionage campaign targets Samsung service centers in Italy

Security researchers from Italian security firm TG Soft have uncovered an ongoing malware campaigns targeting Samsung service centers in Italy. “TG Soft’s Research Centre (C.R.A.M.) has analyzed the campaign of spear-phishing on 2 april 2018 targeting the service centers of Samsung Italy.” reads the analysis published by TG Soft. “The campaign analyzed is targeting only the service centers of Samsung […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2018

Researchers show how to manipulate road navigation systems with low-cost devices

Researchers have developed a tool that poses as GPS satellites to deceive nearby GPS receivers and manipulate road navigation systems. Researchers have developed a tool that poses as GPS satellites to deceive nearby GPS receivers. The kit could be used to deceive receivers used by navigation systems and suggest drivers the wrong direction. “we explore […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2018

Crooks deployed malicious ESLint packages that steal software registry login tokens

Hackers compromised the npm account of an ESLint maintainer and published malicious versions of eslint packages to the npm registry. Crooks compromised an ESLint maintainer’s account last week and uploaded malicious packages that attempted to steal login tokens from the npm software registry. npm is the package manager for JavaScript and the world’s largest software registry. ESLint is open […]