Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2020
NSA releases a guide to reduce location tracking risks

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) is warning of risks posed by location services for staff who work in defence or national security. The United States National Security Agency (NSA) published a new guide to warn of the risks posed by location services for staff who work in defence or national security. The guide, titled […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 30, 2020
Expert discloses details of 3 Tor zero-day flaws … new ones to come

A security researcher published the details about two Tor zero-day vulnerabilities and plans to release three more flaws. The security researcher Dr. Neal Krawetz has published technical details about two Tor zero-day vulnerabilities over the past week and promises to release three more. Oppressive regimes could exploit these Tor zero-day flaws to prevent users from […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2020
Doki, an undetectable Linux backdoor targets Docker Servers

Experts spotted an undetectable Linux malware that exploits undocumented techniques to evade detection and targets publicly accessible Docker servers Cybersecurity researchers at Intezer spotted a new completely undetectable Linux malware, dubbed Doki, that exploits undocumented evasion techniques while targeting publicly accessible Docker servers. The ongoing Ngrok mining botnet campaign is targeting servers are hosted on popular cloud platforms, including Alibaba […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2020
7 VPN services left data of millions of users exposed online

vpnMentor experts reported that seven Virtual Private Network (VPN)  recently left 1.2 terabytes of private user data exposed to online. Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered a group of seven free VPN (virtual private network) apps that left their server unsecured online exposing private user data for anyone to see.  The impacted VPN services are UFO […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2020
Personal data of thousands of users from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US, Singapore exposed in bitcoin scam

Group-IB discovered thousands of personal records of users from multiple countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, has discovered thousands of personal records of users from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the US, Singapore, Spain, Malaysia and other countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2020
CryptoCore hacker group stole over $200M from cryptocurrency exchanges

The CryptoCore hacker group that is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe has stolen around $200 million from online cryptocurrency exchanges. Experts from ClearSky states that a hacker group tracked as CryptoCore, which is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe, has stolen around $200 million from cryptocurrency exchanges. The CryptoCore group, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2020
Norway suspends its COVID-19 contact tracing app due to privacy concerns

Norway’s health authorities announced the suspension of the design of a COVID-19 contact tracing app due to privacy concerns. In April, Norway launched its contact tracing app dubbed Smittestopp (“Infection stop”) to trace the diffusion of the COVID-19 in the country. A contact tracing app is a tool that could be used to contain new […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2020
Tech firms suspend use of ‘biased’ facial recognition technology

Amazon, IBM and now Microsoft ban the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments and are urging for federal laws to regulate its use. Microsoft has joined Amazon and IBM in banning the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments, the tech giants are also urging for federal laws to regulate the use […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2020
Microsoft discovers cryptomining campaign targeting Kubeflow tool for Kubernetes clusters

Microsoft’s Azure Security Center (ASC) is warning of a hacking campaign that targets Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes. Hackers are targeting Kubeflow servers with administration panel exposed online, Microsoft warns. The tech giant has released a report today detailing a novel series of attacks against Kubeflow, a toolkit for deploying machine learning (ML) […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2020
Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users raising privacy concerns

A researcher is warning that Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users raising serious privacy concerns. Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users that could be abused by threat actors for malicious activities. Even if Google Search only revealed the phone numbers and not the identities of associated users, ill-intentioned attackers […]