Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Croatia government agencies targeted with news SilentTrinity malware Customers of 7-Eleven Japan lost $500,000 due to a flaw in the mobile app Hackers compromised a Canonical GitHub account, Ubuntu […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2019
Brazilian users have been targeted by a large number of router attacks aimed at modifying the configuration of their routers for malicious purposes. This year, security experts at Avast have blocked more than 4.6 million cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attempts carried out by crooks to execute commands without the usersâ knowledge. The campaign uncovered by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2019
A new variant of the implements a unique protocol to communicate with Command and Control infrastructure A new variant of the Miori botnet uses a unique protocol to communicate with C&C infrastructure, it implements a protection mechanism to access the login panel. The Miori bot borrows the code from the dreaded Mirai malware. it first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2019
BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency due to a cyber attack. BITPoint Japan-based cryptocurrency was victim of a cyber attack, the Remixpoint’s subsidiary announced that hackers have stolen more than $32 million (3.5 billion yen) worth of cryptocurrency. BITPoint discovered the security breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2019
The CVE-2019-1132 flaw addressed by Microsoft this month was exploited by Buhtrap threat actor to target a government organization in Eastern Europe. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a total of 77 vulnerabilities, including two privilege escalation flaws actively exploited in the wild. The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-1132, affects the Win32k component and could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2019
‘Agent Smith’ is a new malware discovered by Check Point researchers that replaces legit Android Apps with malicious ones that infected 25 Million devices worldwide. Researchers at Check Point recently discovered a new variant of Android malware, dubbed Agent Smith, that has already infected roughly 25 million devices. The malware is disguised as a Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2019
Intel Patch Tuesday updates for July 2019 address a serious flaw in Processor Diagnostic Tool and minor issue in the Solid State Drives (SSD) for Data Centers (DC). Intelâs Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2019 address a serious flaw in the Processor Diagnostic Tool and another issue in the Solid State Drives (SSD) for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2019
Malware researchers from Kaspersky have discovered new and improved versions of the infamous FinFisher spyware used to infect both Android and iOS devices. Experts at Kaspersky have discovered a new improved variant of the FinFisher spyware used to spy on both iOS and Android users in 20 countries. According to the experts, the new versions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2019
The UK’s data privacy regulator plans to fine giant hotel chain Marriott International with a ÂŁ99 million ($123 million) under GDPR over 2014 data breach. The company replied that it will fight against the fine, it could reply to the UK ICO’s proposal before the final determination. The UK’s data privacy regulator announced that the giant hotel […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2019
Liran Tal, a developer advocate at open-source security platform Snyk, discovered a high-severity prototype pollution security flaw that affects all versions of lodash. Lodash is a JavaScript library which provides utility functions for common programming tasks using the functional programming paradigm. Liran Tal, a developer advocate at Snyk, discovered a high-severity prototype pollution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-10744, that affects all […]
