Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2020
Travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses data breach

The world’s largest travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses a data breach that took place last year and which exposed the personal information of its customers. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest travel leisure company, discloses a data breach that took place in 2019. The company is informing customers of the incident, a third-party gained unauthorized access […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2020
Expert publicly discloses Zoho ManageEngine zero-day on Twitter

A security researcher has disclosed details and PoC code for a zero-day vulnerability in the Zoho ManageEngine product via Twitter. A security expert has disclosed details about a zero-day vulnerability in a Zoho enterprise product via Twitter, a circumstance that could cause serious problems to customers of the company. The flaw affects Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2020
TrickBot targets Italy using fake WHO Coronavirus emails as bait

Crooks continue to exploit the attention on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, TrickBot operators target Italian users. A new spam campaign is targeting users in Italy by exploiting the interest on Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the attempt of delivering the TrickBot information-stealing malware. Crooks are attempting to exploit the fear of users of becoming infected with the Coronavirus, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2020
Virgin Media disclose data breach, over 900,000 Customers impacted

Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 900,000 of its customers. Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 900,000 customers (names, home, and email addresses and phone numbers). The company reported unauthorized access, on at least one occasion, to a misconfigured and unsecured marketing […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2020
Most of Linux distros affected by a critical RCE in PPP Daemon flaw

A critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the PPP Daemon exposes most Linux systems to cyber attacks. A 17-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting the PPP Daemon software exposes most Linux systems to hack. The US-CERT issued a security advisory warning users of the RCE in the PPP daemon (pppd) software that is part of almost […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2020
Hackers gained access to T-Mobile customers and employee personal info

New problems for the wireless carrier T-Mobile that disclosed a data breach that exposed some of the customers’ personal information. The wireless carrier T-Mobile was victims of a sophisticated cyber attack that targeted its email vendor. A data breach notification published by the telecommunications giant on its website revealed that the security breach impacted both employees […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2020
Hundreds of Microsoft sub-domains open to hijacking

Security researchers demonstrated that hundreds of sub-domains belonging to Microsoft could potentially be hijacked and abused to deliver malware and for phishing attacks. Researchers have devised another way to carry out an attack, for example, inviting victims to download a fake update from an apparently trusted URL such as mybrowser.microsoft.com. Security researchers Numan Ozdemir and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2020
Cisco addresses high severity RCE flaws in Webex Player

Cisco has released security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities in various products, including two remote code execution flaws in Webex Player.  The two remote code execution vulnerabilities fixed by Cisco have been tracked CVE-2020-3127 and CVE-2020-3128 respectively. The vulnerabilities have been rated as high severity and received a CVSS score of 7.8. The vulnerabilities are caused by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2020
Most of the attacks on Telecom Sector in 2019 were carried out by China-linked hackers

China-linked cyber espionage groups increasingly targeted organizations in the telecommunications industry in 2019. According to the CrowdStrike 2020 Global Threat Report, the telecommunications and government sectors were the most targeted by the threat actors. Experts monitored operations carried out by nation-state actors and financially-motivated attackers. Most of the attacks against organizations in the telecom sector […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2020
CIA Hacking unit APT-C-39 hit China since 2008

Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 revealed that the US CIA has hacked Chinese organizations in various sectors for the last 11 years. Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 is accusing that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of having hacked Chinese organizations for the last 11 years. According to the firm, the US cyber spies are targeting various industry sectors […]