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Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2021
Pottawatomie County paid the ransom to recover its systems

Pottawatomie County restored operations that were suspended after a ransomware attack hit its systems on September 17, 2021. Officials at Pottawatomie County announced to have fully recovered their IT infrastructure that was hit by a ransomware attack on September 17, 2021. County Administrator Chad Kinsley announced that the county opted to pay the ransomware, they […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 03, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 334

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. Threat actors exploit a flaw in Coinbase 2FA to steal user funds Flubot Android banking Trojan spreads […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2021
Neiman Marcus discloses data breach, payment card data exposed

Luxury retail company Neiman Marcus Group has announced this week that it has suffered a data breach that impacted customer information. The attack against Neiman Marcus Group took place in May 2020, as a result of the attack, threat actors had access to customers’ information, including payment card data. Exposed personal information includes names and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2021
Telegram is becoming the paradise of cyber criminals

Telegram is becoming an essential platform for cybercriminal activities, crooks use it but and sell any kind of stolen data and hacking tools. Many experts believe that the popular Telegram app is an efficient alternative to dark web marketplaces, its channels are used by hacking communities and cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data, accesses […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 333

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. GSS, one of the major European call center providers, suffered a ransomware attack Threat actors are attempting […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2021
3.8 billion Clubhouse and Facebook user records allegedly scraped and merged, put for sale online

A user on a popular hacker forum is selling a database that purportedly contains 3.8 billion Clubhouse and Facebook user records. Original Post @CyberNews https://cybernews.com/security/3-8-billion-allegedly-scraped-and-merged-clubhouse-and-facebook-user-records-put-for-sale-online/ A user on a popular hacker forum is selling a database that purportedly contains 3.8 billion user records. The database was allegedly compiled by combining 3.8 billion phone numbers from […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2021
Data of 106 million visitors to Thailand leaked online

Security researchers discovered an unsecured database exposed online containing the personal information of millions of visitors to Thailand. The popular cybersecurity research Bob Diachenko discovered his personal data online stored on an unprotected Elasticsearch database containing the personal details of more than 106 million visitors to Thailand. The expert discovered the unsecured database on August […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 332

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. The Biden administration plans to target exchanges supporting ransomware operations with sanctions Threat actor has been targeting the aviation industry since at least 2018 Expert discloses details and PoC […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2021
Revil ransomware operators are targeting new victims

Recently we observed that part of the REvil ransomware infrastructure was up and running again, now we can confirm that they hit new victims. On September 7, the servers of the REvil ransomware gang were back online after around two months since their shutdown. The circumstance was immediately noted by many researchers, me too. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 331

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. Cisco released security patches for High-Severity flaws in IOS XR software New SOVA Android Banking trojan is […]