Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2020
Researchers devised a technique dubbed BadPower to alter the firmware of fast chargers to cause damage to connected systems or cause the device to catch fire Security researchers from Tencent have devised a technique, dubbed BadPower, to alter the firmware of fast chargers to cause damage to connected systems or cause the device to catch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2020
Another telco company was hit by a ransomware, roughly 18,000 computers belonging to Telecom Argentina were infected over the weekend. Telecom Argentina, one of the largest internet service providers in Argentina, was hit by a ransomware attack. Ransomware operators infected roughly 18,000 computers during the weekend and now are asking for a $7.5 million ransom. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2020
In April a cyber attack hit an Israeli water facility, last week, officials revealed two more cyber attacks against other water management facilities. In April an attack hit an Israeli water facility attempting to modify water chlorine levels, last week officials from the Water Authority revealed two more cyber attacks on other facilities in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2020
A vulnerability affecting the Zoom feature dubbed Vanity URL could have been exploited by hackers for phishing attacks. A vulnerability affecting the Zoom feature dubbed Vanity URLs could have been exploited by hackers for phishing attacks. The popularity of the Zoom video conferencing service exploded during the COVID-19 outbreak when it was chosen by organizations, schools, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2020
A group of hacktivists that goes online with the name Ghost Squad Hackers has defaced for the second time in a week a site of the European Space Agency (ESA). Last week a group of hackers that goes online with the name Ghost Squad Hackers announced the defacement of a site of the European Space Agency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2020
The social media giant Twitter confirmed that hackers compromised 130 accounts in last week hack and downloaded data from eight of them. Last week, the social media platform Twitter has suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, hackers breached a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2020
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Google updates policies to ban any ads for surveillance solutions and services Hacker claims to have breached Night Lion security firm Malware campaign attempts to evade analysis with Any.Run sandbox […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2020
ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf is warning banks a new ATM black box attack technique that was recently employed in cyber thefts in Europe. Black box attacks are a type of jackpotting attack aimed at forcing an ATM to dispense the cash by sending a command through a “black box” device. In this attack, a black box […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2020
Hackers have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability, researchers from Bad Packets warn. Researchers from Bad Packets reported that threat actors have been scanning the Internet for SAP systems affected by RECON vulnerability, , tracked as CVE-2020-6287. Immediately after a researcher released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for the RECON vulnerability, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2020
Iran-linked APT35 group accidentally exposed one of its servers, leaving online roughly 40 GB of videos and other files associated with its operations. Researchers at IBM X-Force Incident Response Intelligence Services (IRIS) discovered an unsecured server belonging to Iran-linked APT35 group (aka ITG18, Charming Kitten, Phosphorous, and NewsBeef) containing data for many domains managed by […]
