Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
The city of Las Vegas announced it has suffered a cyber attack

The city of Las Vegas announced it has suffered a cyber attack that breached its computer systems, it is unclear whether any sensitive data was exposed. Las Vegas officials say a cyber attack breached the city’s computer systems, the attack took place on Tuesday, but it wasn’t immediately clear if any sensitive data was exposed. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2020
Security flaws allowed hijacking any TikTok account

A flaw in the popular TikTok app could allow attackers to hijack any user account just by knowing the mobile number of the victim. Security experts from CheckPoint have discovered a critical vulnerability in the popular TikTok app that could be exploited by a remote attacker to hijack any user account just by knowing the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
Medical info of 49,351 patients exposed in Alomere Health hospital breach

Minnesota-based Alomere Health discloses a data leak that exposed personal and medical information of 49,351 patients. Personal and medical information of 49,351 patients of Minnesota-based Alomere Health might have been exposed following the compromise of two employees’ email accounts. Alomere Health is a general medical and surgical hospital in Alexandria, MN, with 127 beds. It is accredited […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
MageCart gang compromised popular Focus Camera website

A new MageCart attack made the headlines, this time the gang compromised the website of popular Focus Camera. The Magecart group has compromised the website of the photography and imaging retailer Focus Camera. The hack took place last year, the hacker planted a software skimmer on the website to steal payment card data of users […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
China-based Bronze President APT targets South and East Asia

A cyber-espionage group tracked as Bronze President has been targeting countries in South and East Asia, Secureworks experts warn. Researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign carried out by an APT group tracked as Bronze President, The Bronze President group is targeting political and law enforcement organizations and NGOs […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
Malicious app exploiting CVE-2019-2215 zero-day available in Google Play since March

Security experts have found a malicious app in the Google Play that exploits the recently patched CVE-2019-2215 zero-day vulnerability. Earlier October, Google Project Zero researchers Maddie Stone publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-2215, in Android. Maddie Stone published technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit for the high-severity security vulnerability, seven days after she reported it to the colleagues […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 07, 2020
HappyHotel, popular search engine for love hotels in Japan discloses data breach

HappyHotel, a Japanese search engine used to find and book rooms in “love hotels,” announced to have suffered a security breach in December. HappyHotel is a popular Japanese search engine for “love hotels,” it is used by married couples and unfaithful spouses, it allows users to book rooms in love hotels in Japan. Almex, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2020
Microsoft report: around 0.08% of RDP brute-force attacks are successful

Microsoft published an interesting analysis of RDP brute-force attacks that targeted the 45,000 have analyzed in months of study. Researchers from Microsoft have analyzed several months’ worth of data to investigate RDP brute force attacks occurring across Microsoft Defender ATP customers. The study involved 45,000 machines that had both RDP public IP connections and at […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2020
School software provider Active Network discloses data breach

The US-based School management software provider Active Network disclosed a severe security breach last week. Active Network provides web-based school management software for K-12 schools and districts, last week it announced to have suffered a major security breach. The hackers gained access to Blue Bear, a cloud school accounting software customized especially for K-12 schools and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2020
Austria’s foreign ministry is facing a ‘serious cyberattack’

Austria’s foreign ministry announced it was facing a “serious cyberattack” and that it could be the work of a nation-state actor. Austria’s foreign ministry was the victim of a cyber-attack that is suspected to have been conducted by a foreign state due to its level of sophistication. “Due to the gravity and nature of the […]