Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2020
Photos and personal information belonging to patients of the NextMotion plastic surgery tech firm have been exposed online through an unsecured S3 bucket. Hundreds of thousands of documents containing photos and personal information belonging to patients of the plastic surgery technology company NextMotion have been exposed online through an unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2020
Security experts have discovered multiple flaws, dubbed SweynTooth, in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) implementations of major system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors. A group of researchers has discovered multiple vulnerabilities, tracked as SweynTooth, in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) implementations of major system-on-a-chip (SoC) vendors. The group was composed of researchers Matheus E. Garbelini, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2020
Austria’s foreign ministry announced that the cyber attack against its systems, allegedly carried by a state actor has ended. Earlier January, Austria’s foreign ministry announced it was facing a “serious cyberattack” and that it could be the work of a nation-state actor. “Due to the gravity and nature of the attack, it cannot be ruled out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2020
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released reports on North Korea-linked HIDDEN COBRA malware. The FBI, the US Cyber Command, and the Department of Homeland Security have published technical details of a new North-Korea linked hacking operation. The government experts released new and updated Malware Analysis Reports (MARs) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2020
Nedbank bank announced on Thursday that a security breach at a third-party supplier has compromised the details of as many as 1.7 million of its clients. Nedbank bank disclosed on Thursday a security breach at a third-party supplier that has compromised the details of as many as 1.7 million of its clients. The bank revealed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2020
US store chain Rutter disclosed a security breach, 71 locations were infected with a point-of-sale (POS) malware used to steal customers’ credit card information. The Rutter’s, a U.S. convenience store, fast food restaurant, and gas station chain owner, has disclosed a security breach. The company confirmed that attackers gained access to its stores’ network system […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2020
The popular Italian hacktivist collective LulzSec ITA claimed via Twitter to have hacked three Italian universities. The popular Italian hacktivist collective LulzSec ITA has announced via Twitter the hack of three Italian universities, highlighting the importance of the cybersecurity for our society. The hacktivists claim that once hacked the universities did not disclose the data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2020
Security experts uncovered a new cyberespionage campaign conducted by one of the Gaza Cybergang groups (aka MoleRATs) targeting the Middle East. Experts from the Cybereason Nocturnus team have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign allegedly carried out by one of the Gaza Cybergang groups (aka MoleRATs). MoleRATs is an Arabic-speaking, politically motivated group of hackers that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2020
Huawei can secretly tap into communications through the networking equipment, states a U.S. official, while White House urge allies to ban the Chinese giant. This week The Wall Street Journal reported that U.S. officials say Huawei can covertly access telecom networks where its equipment is installed. “U.S. officials say Huawei Technologies Co. can covertly access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2020
Google Play Protect now scans over 100 billion applications on Android devices every day, these amazing figures were disclosed by Google. In May 2017, Google introduced a security defense system called Google Play Protect to protect the devices running its mobile OS. Google aims at monitoring the behavior of the apps and the detection of the malicious […]
