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Fake vaccines online: beware of scams

The NAS Carabinieri blocked two sites advertising and offering fake vaccines for COVID-19 and flu. In the latter case, subject to the obligation of medical prescription and sold only in pharmacies by a qualified pharmacist. On the first site, the Authorities noted the sale of 3 alleged vaccines for COVID-19 potentially purchasable from Italy. The analysis of the second website allowed the Carabinieri to highlight the presence of 2 flu vaccines. The World Health Organization has indeed issued a “Medical product alert” relating to possible counterfeit matches of these vaccines. The context of the operation Is it just an isolated fact? Unfortunately not. The operation of the Italian military is […]

May 19

Simjacker and other cyber threats for mobile devices in 2020

At the end of last year, a security company discovered a serious threat to the world of cell phones and beyond: Simjacker, an attack technique that allows, in fact, to take control of a mobile phone by simply sending an SMS. Given the always increasing use of smartphones, it’s easy to understand the great dangerousness of this type of attack. Here we will see some details about this and other cyber threats for mobile devices that have recently emerged. Simjacker, the first case of Malware-SMS The Simjacker technique is particularly dangerous because it can be successfully exploited against a large variety of connected devices: not only mobile phones and smartphones, […]