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Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2019
Former contractor sentenced to 10 months in prison for hacking airline Jet2

A former contractor of British airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the airline’s systems for over 12 hours. Scott Burns, a former contractor of British low-cost airline Jet2 has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for a cyberattack that shut down the company systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 245

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM – exploit ‘Printconfig dll with a real-world example Iran announced to have foiled a second cyber-attack in a week Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack A thief stole […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2019
UK authorities sentenced hacker who blackmailed Apple for $100,000

A 22-year-old man was sentenced for his involvement in an extortion attempt against Apple, he threatened to mass-hack iCloud accounts. Kerem Albayrak, a 22-year-old man from North London who claimed to have access to over 300 million iCloud accounts and threatened to factory reset all accounts unless Apple pays a ransom, was sentenced today in London. In […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2019
Watch out, hackers are targeting CVE-2018-0296 Cisco fixed in 2018

Cisco has warned customers that hackers continue to target Cisco ASA and Firepower Appliance products by exploiting the CVE-2018-0296 flaw. Experts warn that threat actors continue to exploit the CVE-2018-0296 flaw to target Cisco ASA and Firepower Appliance. The vulnerability could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information through […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2019
Greece to extradite Alexander Vinnik to France to face a charge of money laundering

Greece authorities will extradite to France Russian Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, to face a charge of money laundering. Greek justice minister Costas Tsiaras announced the extradition to France of the Russian of Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, on suspicion of money laundering. In September 2019, the decision of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2019
Apple opens its bug bounty program to all white hat hackers

As announced in August, Apple has now announced the opening of its invite-only bug bounty program to all security researchers. Apple has now announced the opening of its invite-only bug bounty program to all security researchers. The tech giant will pay white hat hackers that will report security flaws in the iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2019
Unveiling JsOutProx: A New Enterprise Grade Implant

Experts at Yoroi/Cybaze ZLab spotted a new sophisticated malware implant dubbed JsOutProx that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons. Introduction During our threat intelligence source monitoring operations, we spotted a new sophisticated malware implant, dubbed JsOutProx, that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons. In fact, the recovered sample raised many interrogatives […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2019
Negative opinion of Italy security committee Copasir on Huawei, ZTE 5G solutions

Italian parliamentary security committee Copasir said that Italy should consider preventing Huawei and ZTE from taking part in the development of 5G networks. The Italian parliamentary security committee Copasir (Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic) said that the Government should consider preventing Chinese telecoms companies Huawei and ZTE from participating in the development […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2019
Payment card breach potentially impacts all locations of Wawa convenience store

Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach that may have exposed debit and credit card data from thousands of customers. Wawa convenience store chain disclosed a payment card breach, its security team discovered a PoS malware on its payment processing systems. Wawa operates more than 860 convenience retail stores, this breach is potentially […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2019
More than 267 millions of Facebook user phone numbers exposed online

Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names in an unsecured database. Security expert Bob Diachenko, along with Comparitech, has discovered more than 267 million Facebook user IDs, phone numbers and names in an unsecured database. The huge trove of data is likely the result of an […]