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Officials at Sberbank Rossi, the largest Russian bank, have revealed some details about their investigation of a data breach that would have affected at least 200 users of the bank. According to reports from information security experts, the bank detected the incident last October 2. However, additional local media reports mention that the 200 affected […]
Users of Yuri Gagarin International Airport, in the Russian city of Saratov, were surprised by an uncommon screening. Data protection experts reported that a hacker group would have infiltrated the airport systems to display a pornographic film on the screens of one of the airport men’s bathrooms. The explicit material was projected on a set […]
A team of web application security experts has discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in Foxit PDF Reader, one of the most popular PDF reader tools and the main competitor of Adobe Reader. The flaws found include remote code execution errors considered highly serious. The researchers, led by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos, discovered this set of […]
Cyber security is important for every sector, but particularly for some. For health services which rely on strong communications with patients and professionals, it can literally be a matter of life and death. For financial institutions,which rely on the ability to send and receive large sums of money, it can be critical to keeping firms […]
Social protests and government attempts to disrupt them can have unexpected consequences in different areas, including on new technologies. Information security experts report that ATMs in Hong Kong are running out of cash due to the possibility of China’s government taking highly intrusive and authoritarian measures to stop recent demonstrations and prosecute those responsible for […]
Digital forensics specialists have revealed the existence of zero-day vulnerability in the Android operating system that, if exploited, could grant threat actors full control of at least 18 smartphone models from various manufacturers. Among them, there are four models of Google Pixel. The information was confirmed by Maddie Stone, a security researcher at Google’s Project […]
Information security specialists have revealed details about a recent cybercriminal campaign identified as “MasterMana Botnet”, related to multiple key concepts in the world of cybersecurity, such as the use of botnet, backdoors, theft of cryptocurrency, among others. Experts estimate that thousands of companies around the world have already been attacked by the operators of this […]
Any deployment, no matter its protections, may be exposed to further hacking attacks. Ethical hacking experts have found a way to extract information contained in Portable Document Format (PDF) files encrypted or password-protected. The group of researchers at Ruhr-Bochum University in Germany published a research entitled “Breaking PDF Encryption”, which reveals two variants of a […]
Authorities in different countries are increasingly taking stricter measures against cyber criminal practices. This time, digital forensics specialists report that a man from Bangladesh has been arrested for hacking more than 200 Facebook accounts. The hacker sent messages through Facebook Messenger to compromise the victims’ accounts. Through this platform, the defendant sent messages to victims […]
Last April information security audit specialists reported a ransomware infection in the IT systems of Stratford, a small city in Ontario region, Canada. After a couple of weeks without being able to access their systems, the local government decided to pay the hackers about $75k USD in cryptocurrency to retrieve access to the compromised information. […]
Data protection specialists report a data breach at customer support software company Zendesk that would have compromised information from about 10k accounts of Support and Chat services created prior to November 2016. The company is currently notifying its customers. Zendesk services are used by nearly 150k companies around the world, including Uber, Airbnb and Shopify. […]
A somewhat unusual incident occurred in the Mexican state of Veracruz. According to experts in ethical hacking, an electronic billboard located in the Boca del Río region displayed pornographic images for a few minutes. This is a touristic area, so the adult content was appreciated by quite a few people. For nearly ten minutes, the […]
A few days ago information security specialists reported that computer systems in multiple hospitals in the Gippsland and Victoria regions, Australia, were shut down after suffering a severe ransomware infection. This incident has already begun to have a negative impact on patients treated at the affected facilities. Bianca Brant is the mother of a 12-year-old […]
Information security specialists report the emergence of a new variant of online fraud that allows the extraction of victims’ data when they browse through seemingly secure websites. In most cases, victims do not know they have been attacked until it is too late. Whether users are shopping online, filling out government forms, or job applications, […]
Members of the aviation industry are concerned about a potential security risk for the pilots and crew of some aircraft. “Today any system is exploitable, aviation is not safe from malicious hackers,” says Mark Lepak, vulnerability testing specialist. The problem is related to the Controller Area Network system (commonly known as CAN bus). This cable […]
Ransomware incidents attacking critical infrastructure in various countries keep happening. This time, IT system audit specialists report that a series of attacks have disrupted operations at multiple hospitals in Australia and the US, affecting hundreds of patients who require special care and surgical interventions in which technological infrastructure plays a key role. Through a statement, […]
Threats to the privacy of users of any online service are not generated only by hackers outside the companies. Data protection specialists report that a former Yahooo software engineer has just pleaded guilty of compromising the accounts of thousands of Yahoo users in order to find sex images and videos, preferably of young women and […]
A cybersecurity incident has impacted Zynga Inc., a popular social media video game company. According to information security specialists, the incident has compromised the personal information of nearly 220 million users worldwide. Through an official statement, the company reported that Gonsticplayers, a hacker from Pakistan managed to compromise the security of Words with Friends, a […]
Sometimes hackers do not pursue monetary or operation disruption purposes but seem only interested in demonstrating their capabilities, claim web application security specialists. This appears to be the case of sporting goods company Asics, which had to issue an apology after screens at one of its major stores in Australia showed pornographic content for hours. […]
Microsoft issued a serious warning about the new form of stealthy fileless Malware campaign “Nodersok” that attacks windows computers using living-off-the-land techniques. Living-off-the-land Binaries (LOLBin) technique refers to the abuse of legitimate windows tools and uses it to maintain its persistence and performing other malicious activities in the targeted windows machine. Microsoft researchers are continuously […]
Because of the advantages it offers, cloud computing is considered a much safer environment for information stored on these servers. However, vulnerability testing specialists have discovered a security flaw in a cloud management system used by thousands of providers of these services that could expose information from thousands of system administrators. The vulnerability is present […]