Tag: Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity – Chi è Roberto Baldoni, il nuovo cyber zar di Draghi (Formiche)

Francesco Bechis writes: Roberto Baldoni è stato nominato dal presidente del Consiglio Mario Draghi direttore dell’Agenzia per la cybersicurezza nazionale (Acn). Il Consiglio dei ministri ha ufficializzato la scelta:...

Cybersecurity/USA – Not a single federal agency received an ‘A’ in a new Senate cybersecurity report card (Popular Science)

CHARLOTTE HU writes: On Tuesday, members from the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee released a bipartisan report that states that seven...

(Israel) Israel launches commission to probe Pegasus spyware: Legislator (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Israel has established a commission to review allegations that NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus phone surveillance software was misused amid a hacking...

(Saudi Aramco) Saudi Aramco confirms data leak after reports of cyber ransom (Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

 David Wethe writes for Bloomberg: Saudi Aramco confirmed that some company files were leaked after hackers reportedly demanded a $50 million ransom from the world’s most-valuable...

(USA) US House terminates deal with iConstituent after company waited days to raise ransomware alarm (ZD Net)

Jonathan Greig  writes for ZD Net: The Office of the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) -- which provides support services to US House members of...

(Cybersecurity) Joker billing fraud malware found in Google Play Store (ZD Net)

Charlie Osborne writes for ZD Net: Malicious Android apps harboring the Joker malware have been discovered in the Google Play Store. On Tuesday, cybersecurity...

(Cybersecurity) Kelihos botmaster Peter Levashov gets time served (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: A US federal judge sentenced Russian hacker Peter Levashov to 33 months, time served, and three years of supervised...

(Cybersecurity) LPE flaw in Linux kernel allows attackers to get root privileges on most distros (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Experts discovered a Local Privilege Escalation, tracked as CVE-2021-33909, that could allow attackers to get root access on most...

(Mexico) ‘Shameful’: Mexican president decries alleged NSO spying (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday called “shameful” the alleged government-ordered spying several years ago that may have targeted...

(Cybersecurity) A bug in Fortinet FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer allows unauthenticated hackers to run code as root (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Fortinet fixes a serious bug in its FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer network management solutions that could be exploited to execute...

(Cybersecurity) Microsoft secured court order to take down domains used in BEC campaign (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Microsoft has seized 17 malicious homoglyph domains used by crooks in a business email compromise (BEC) campaign targeting its users. go to...

(Cybersecurity) WiFiDemon – Recently discovered iPhone Wi-Fi bug could also allow RCE (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: A recently discovered iPhone Wi-Fi bug that could crash the WiFi connectivity could be exploited by attackers to achieve...

(Cybersecurity) US DoJ indicts four members of China-linked APT40 cyberespionage group (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: US DoJ indicted four members of the China-linked cyberespionage group known as APT40 for hacking various entities between 2011...

(Cybersecurity) Threat actor claims to have stolen 1 TB of data belonging to Saudi Aramco

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: A hacker claims to have stolen 1 TB of sensitive data from the Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas...

(China) Chinese government issues new vulnerability disclosure regulations

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued new vulnerability disclosure regulations that oblige experts to report zero-days to the government go...

(Cybersecurity) Instagram implements ‘Security Checkup’ to help users recover compromised accounts

Pierluigi Paganini writes for Security Affairs: Instagram introduced a new security feature dubbed “Security Checkup” to help users to recover their accounts that have been...