Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2021
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. EskyFun data leak, over 1 million Android gamers impacted Boffins show PIN bypass attack Mastercard and Maestro […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2021
The Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, Qurium organizations linked it to the local government. For the past three weeks, the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan has suffered a heavy and sustained DDoS attack. The attack comes only a month after the waves of DDoS attacks targeting the alternative media […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2021
Taiwan vendor Synology announced that recently disclosed vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-3711 and CVE-2021-3712) in the OpenSSL impact some of its products. Taiwanese company Synology revealed that the recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS) OpenSSL vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-3711 and CVE-2021-3712) impact some of its products. “Multiple vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to conduct denial-of-service attack or possibly execute arbitrary code via […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2021
vpnMentor’s researchers reported that the Chinese mobile gaming company EskyFun suffered a data breach, over 1 million gamers impacted. vpnMentor’s researchers discovered that the Chinese mobile gaming company EskyFun suffered a data breach, information of over 1 million gamers were exposed on an unsecured server. EskyFun developed several Android games including Rainbow Story: Fantasy MMORPG, Adventure Story, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2021
Boffins from the Swiss ETH Zurich university demonstrated PIN bypass attack on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. A group of researchers from the Swiss ETH Zurich university has discovered a vulnerability that allowed them to bypass PIN codes on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. Technically the researchers performed a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack between […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2021
Crooks behind the Phorpiex botnet have shut down their operations and put the source code for sale on the dark web. The criminal organization behind the Phorpiex botnet have shut down their operations and put the source code of the bot for sale on a cybercrime forum in on a dark web. The news was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2021
Researchers from Nozomi Networks discovered a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke. Researchers at industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks have discovered a critical flaw affecting a video surveillance product made by Annke, a popular manufacturer of surveillance systems and solutions. The vulnerability, tracked as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2021
Microsoft has fixed a critical flaw in Cosmos DB that allowed any Azure user to remotely take over other users’ databases without any authorization. Researchers from Cloud security company Wiz disclosed technical details of a now-fixed Azure Cosmos database vulnerability, dubbed ChaosDB, that could have been potentially exploited by attackers to gain full admin access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2021
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published a flash alert related to the operations of the Hive ransomware gang. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a flash alert on the Hive ransomware attacks that includes technical details and indicators of compromise associated with the operations of the gang. Recently the group hit the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2021
Ragnarok ransomware operators are ceasing their operations and released the master key that can allow their victims to decrypt files for free. The Ragnarok ransomware group has been active since at least January 2020 and hit dozens of organizations worldwide. The news was reported by Bleeping Computer that also noticed that ransomware operators have replaced […]
