Security Affairs newsletter Round 476 by Pierluigi Paganini

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Mirai-like botnet is exploiting recently disclosed Zyxel NAS flaw

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is free

CISA confirmed that its CSAT environment was breached in January.

Threat actors compromised 1,590 CoinStats crypto wallets

Experts observed approximately 120 malicious campaigns using the Rafel RAT

LockBit claims the hack of the US Federal Reserve

Ransomware threat landscape Jan-Apr 2024: insights and challenges

ExCobalt Cybercrime group targets Russian organizations in multiple sectors

Threat actor attempts to sell 30 million customer records allegedly stolen from TEG

Security Affairs newsletter Round 477 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Threat actors are actively exploiting SolarWinds Serv-U bug CVE-2024-28995

US government sanctions twelve Kaspersky Lab executives

Experts found a bug in the Linux version of RansomHub ransomware

UEFICANHAZBUFFEROVERFLOW flaw in Phoenix SecureCore UEFI firmware potentially impacts hundreds of PC and server models

Russia-linked APT Nobelium targets French diplomatic entities

US bans sale of Kaspersky products due to risks to national security

Atlassian fixed six high-severity bugs in Confluence Data Center and Server

China-linked spies target Asian Telcos since at least 2021

New Rust infostealer Fickle Stealer spreads through various attack methods

An unpatched bug allows anyone to impersonate Microsoft corporate email accounts

Smishing Triad Is Targeting Pakistan To Defraud Banking Customers At Scale

Alleged researchers stole $3 million from Kraken exchange

Google Chrome 126 update addresses multiple high-severity flaws

Chip maker giant AMD investigates a data breach

Cryptojacking campaign targets exposed Docker APIs

VMware fixed RCE and privilege escalation bugs in vCenter Server

Meta delays training its AI using public content shared by EU users

Keytronic confirms data breach after ransomware attack

The Financial Dynamics Behind Ransomware Attacks

Empire Market owners charged with operating $430M dark web marketplace

China-linked Velvet Ant uses F5 BIG-IP malware in cyber espionage campaign

LA County’s Department of Public Health (DPH) data breach impacted over 200,000 individuals

Spanish police arrested an alleged member of the Scattered Spider group

Online job offers, the reshipping and money mule scams

Security Affairs newsletter Round 476 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

ASUS fixed critical remote authentication bypass bug in several routers

London hospitals canceled over 800 operations in the week after Synnovis ransomware attack

DORA Compliance Strategy for Business Leaders

CISA adds Android Pixel, Microsoft Windows, Progress Telerik Report Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

City of Cleveland still working to fully restore systems impacted by a cyber attack

Google fixed an actively exploited zero-day in the Pixel Firmware

Multiple flaws in Fortinet FortiOS fixed

CISA adds Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver, PHP bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Ukraine Police arrested a hacker who developed a crypter used by Conti and LockBit ransomware operation

JetBrains fixed IntelliJ IDE flaw exposing GitHub access tokens

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 fixed only one critical issue

Cylance confirms the legitimacy of data offered for sale in the dark web

Arm zero-day in Mali GPU Drivers actively exploited in the wild

Expert released PoC exploit code for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager flaw CVE-2024-29849. Patch it now!

Japanese video-sharing platform Niconico was victim of a cyber attack

UK NHS call for O-type blood donations following ransomware attack on London hospitals

Christie’s data breach impacted 45,798 individuals

Sticky Werewolf targets the aviation industry in Russia and Belarus

Frontier Communications data breach impacted over 750,000 individuals

PHP addressed critical RCE flaw potentially impacting millions of servers

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SolarWinds fixed multiple flaws in Serv-U and SolarWinds Platform

Pandabuy was extorted twice by the same threat actor

UAC-0020 threat actor used the SPECTR Malware to target Ukraine's defense forces

A new Linux version of TargetCompany ransomware targets VMware ESXi environments

FBI obtained 7,000 LockBit decryption keys, victims should contact the feds to get support

RansomHub operation is a rebranded version of the Knight RaaS

Malware can steal data collected by the Windows Recall tool, experts warn

Cisco addressed Webex flaws used to compromise German government meetings

CNN, Paris Hilton, and Sony TikTok accounts hacked via DMs

Zyxel addressed three RCEs in end-of-life NAS devices

A ransomware attack on Synnovis impacted several London hospitals

RansomHub gang claims the hack of the telecommunications giant Frontier Communications

Cybercriminals attack banking customers in EU with V3B phishing kit - PhotoTAN and SmartID supported.

Experts released PoC exploit code for a critical bug in Progress Telerik Report Servers

Multiple flaws in Cox modems could have impacted millions of devices

CISA adds Oracle WebLogic Server flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Spanish police shut down illegal TV streaming network

APT28 targets key networks in Europe with HeadLace malware

Experts found information of European politicians on the dark web

FlyingYeti targets Ukraine using WinRAR exploit to deliver COOKBOX Malware

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Ticketmaster confirms data breach impacting 560 million customers

Critical Apache Log4j2 flaw still threatens global finance

Crooks stole more than $300M worth of Bitcoin from the exchange DMM Bitcoin

ShinyHunters is selling data of 30 million Santander customers

Over 600,000 SOHO routers were destroyed by Chalubo malware in 72 hours

LilacSquid APT targeted organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia since at least 2021

BBC disclosed a data breach impacting its Pension Scheme members

CISA adds Check Point Quantum Security Gateways and Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Experts found a macOS version of the sophisticated LightSpy spyware

Operation Endgame, the largest law enforcement operation ever against botnets

Law enforcement operation dismantled 911 S5 botnet

Okta warns of credential stuffing attacks targeting its Cross-Origin Authentication feature

Check Point released hotfix for actively exploited VPN zero-day

ABN Amro discloses data breach following an attack on a third-party provider

Christie disclosed a data breach after a RansomHub attack

Experts released PoC exploit code for RCE in Fortinet SIEM

WordPress Plugin abused to install e-skimmers in e-commerce sites

TP-Link Archer C5400X gaming router is affected by a critical flaw

Sav-Rx data breach impacted over 2.8 million individuals

The Impact of Remote Work and Cloud Migrations on Security Perimeters

New ATM Malware family emerged in the threat landscape

A high-severity vulnerability affects Cisco Firepower Management Center

CERT-UA warns of malware campaign conducted by threat actor UAC-0006

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Malware-laced JAVS Viewer deploys RustDoor implant in supply chain attack

Fake AV websites used to distribute info-stealer malware

MITRE December 2023 attack: Threat actors created rogue VMs to evade detection

An XSS flaw in GitLab allows attackers to take over accounts

Google fixes eighth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year, the third in a month

CISA adds Apache Flink flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Usage of TLS in DDNS Services leads to Information Disclosure in Multiple Vendors

Recall feature in Microsoft Copilot+ PCs raises privacy and security concerns

APT41: The threat of KeyPlug against Italian industries

Critical SQL Injection flaws impact Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM)

Chinese actor 'Unfading Sea Haze' remained undetected for five years

A consumer-grade spyware app found in check-in systems of 3 US hotels

Critical Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass bug

Cybercriminals are targeting elections in India with influence campaigns

Critical GitHub Enterprise Server Authentication Bypass bug. Fix it now!

OmniVision disclosed a data breach after the 2023 Cactus ransomware attack

CISA adds NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Blackbasta group claims to have hacked Atlas, one of the largest US oil distributors

Experts warn of a flaw in Fluent Bit utility that is used by major cloud platforms and firms

Experts released PoC exploit code for RCE in QNAP QTS

GitCaught campaign relies on Github and Filezilla to deliver multiple malware

Two students uncovered a flaw that allows to use laundry machines for free

Grandoreiro Banking Trojan is back and targets banks worldwide

Healthcare firm WebTPA data breach impacted 2.5 million individuals

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North Korea-linked Kimsuky used a new Linux backdoor in recent attacks

North Korea-linked IT workers infiltrated hundreds of US firms

Turla APT used two new backdoors to infiltrate a European ministry of foreign affairs

City of Wichita disclosed a data breach after the recent ransomware attack

CISA adds D-Link DIR router flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

CISA adds Google Chrome zero-days to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

North Korea-linked Kimsuky APT attack targets victims via Messenger

Electronic prescription provider MediSecure impacted by a ransomware attack

Google fixes seventh actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year, the third in a week

Santander: a data breach at a third-party provider impacted customers and employees

FBI seized the notorious BreachForums hacking forum

A Tornado Cash developer has been sentenced to 64 months in prison

Adobe fixed multiple critical flaws in Acrobat and Reader

Ransomware attack on Singing River Health System impacted 895,000 people

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for May 2024 fixes 2 actively exploited zero-days

VMware fixed zero-day flaws demonstrated at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024

MITRE released EMB3D Threat Model for embedded devices

Google fixes sixth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year

Phorpiex botnet sent millions of phishing emails to deliver LockBit Black ransomware

Threat actors may have exploited a zero-day in older iPhones, Apple warns

City of Helsinki suffered a data breach

Russian hackers defaced local British news sites

Australian Firstmac Limited disclosed a data breach after cyber attack

Pro-Russia hackers targeted Kosovo’s government websites

Security Affairs newsletter Round 471 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

As of May 2024, Black Basta ransomware affiliates hacked over 500 organizations worldwide

Ohio Lottery data breach impacted over 538,000 individuals

Notorius threat actor IntelBroker claims the hack of the Europol

A cyberattack hit the US healthcare giant Ascension

Google fixes fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year

Russia-linked APT28 targets government Polish institutions

Citrix warns customers to update PuTTY version installed on their XenCenter system manually

Dell discloses data breach impacting millions of customers

Mirai botnet also spreads through the exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure bugs

Zscaler is investigating data breach claims

Experts warn of two BIG-IP Next Central Manager flaws that allow device takeover

LockBit gang claimed responsibility for the attack on City of Wichita

New TunnelVision technique can bypass the VPN encapsulation

LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin actively exploited in the wild

Most Tinyproxy Instances are potentially vulnerable to flaw CVE-2023-49606

UK Ministry of Defense disclosed a third-party data breach exposing military personnel data

Law enforcement agencies identified LockBit ransomware admin and sanctioned him

MITRE attributes the recent attack to China-linked UNC5221

Alexander Vinnik, the operator of BTC-e exchange, pleaded guilty to money laundering

City of Wichita hit by a ransomware attack

El Salvador suffered a massive leak of biometric data

Finland authorities warn of Android malware campaign targeting bank users

NATO and the EU formally condemned Russia-linked APT28 cyber espionage

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Blackbasta gang claimed responsibility for Synlab Italia attack

LockBit published data stolen from Simone Veil hospital in Cannes

Russia-linked APT28 and crooks are still using the Moobot botnet

Dirty stream attack poses billions of Android installs at risk

ZLoader Malware adds Zeus's anti-analysis feature

Ukrainian REvil gang member sentenced to 13 years in prison

HPE Aruba Networking addressed four critical ArubaOS RCE flaws

Threat actors hacked the Dropbox Sign production environment

CISA adds GitLab flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Panda Restaurant Group disclosed a data breach

Ex-NSA employee sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting to transfer classified documents to Russia

Cuttlefish malware targets enterprise-grade SOHO routers

A flaw in the R programming language could allow code execution

Muddling Meerkat, a mysterious DNS Operation involving China's Great Firewall

Notorious Finnish Hacker sentenced to more than six years in prison

CISA guidelines to protect critical infrastructure against AI-based threats

NCSC: New UK law bans default passwords on smart devices

The FCC imposes $200 million in fines on four US carriers for unlawfully sharing user location data

Google prevented 2.28 million policy-violating apps from being published on Google Play in 2023

Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS) data breach impacted 2M individuals

Cyber-Partisans hacktivists claim to have breached Belarus KGB

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services disclosed a data breach

Multiple Brocade SANnav SAN Management SW flaws allow device compromise

ICICI Bank exposed credit card data of 17000 customers

Okta warns of unprecedented scale in credential stuffing attacks on online services

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Targeted operation against Ukraine exploited 7-year-old MS Office bug

Hackers may have accessed thousands of accounts on the California state welfare platform

Brokewell Android malware supports an extensive set of Device Takeover capabilities

Experts warn of an ongoing malware campaign targeting WP-Automatic plugin

Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Kaiser Permanente data breach may have impacted 13.4 million patients

Over 1,400 CrushFTP internet-facing servers vulnerable to CVE-2024-4040 bug

Sweden’s liquor supply severely impacted by ransomware attack on logistics company

CISA adds Cisco ASA and FTD and CrushFTP VFS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

CISA adds Microsoft Windows Print Spooler flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

DOJ arrested the founders of crypto mixer Samourai for facilitating $2 Billion in illegal transactions

Google fixed critical Chrome vulnerability CVE-2024-4058

Nation-state actors exploited two zero-days in ASA and FTD firewalls to breach government networks

Hackers hijacked the eScan Antivirus update mechanism in malware campaign

US offers a $10 million reward for information on four Iranian nationals

The street lights in Leicester City cannot be turned off due to a cyber attack

North Korea-linked APT groups target South Korean defense contractors

U.S. Gov imposed Visa restrictions on 13 individuals linked to commercial spyware activity

A cyber attack paralyzed operations at Synlab Italia

Russia-linked APT28 used post-compromise tool GooseEgg to exploit CVE-2022-38028 Windows flaw

Hackers threaten to leak a copy of the World-Check database used to assess potential risks associated with entities

A flaw in the Forminator plugin impacts hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites

Akira ransomware received $42M in ransom payments from over 250 victims

DuneQuixote campaign targets the Middle East with a complex backdoor

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Critical CrushFTP zero-day exploited in attacks in the wild

A French hospital was forced to reschedule procedures after cyberattack

MITRE revealed that nation-state actors breached its systems via Ivanti zero-days

FBI chief says China is preparing to attack US critical infrastructure

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) investigates data breach

FIN7 targeted a large U.S. carmaker with phishing attacks

Law enforcement operation dismantled phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost

Previously unknown Kapeka backdoor linked to Russian Sandworm APT

Cisco warns of a command injection escalation flaw in its IMC. PoC publicly available

Linux variant of Cerber ransomware targets Atlassian servers

Ivanti fixed two critical flaws in its Avalanche MDM

Researchers released exploit code for actively exploited Palo Alto PAN-OS bug

Cisco warns of large-scale brute-force attacks against VPN and SSH services

PuTTY SSH Client flaw allows of private keys recovery

A renewed espionage campaign targets South Asia with iOS spyware LightSpy

Misinformation and hacktivist campaigns targeting the Philippines skyrocket

Russia is trying to sabotage European railways, Czech minister said

Ransomware group Dark Angels claims the theft of 1TB of data from chipmaker Nexperia

Cisco Duo warns telephony supplier data breach exposed MFA SMS logs

Ukrainian Blackjack group used ICS malware Fuxnet against Russian targets

CISA adds Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Threat actors exploited Palo Alto Pan-OS issue to deploy a Python Backdoor

U.S. and Australian police arrested Firebird RAT author and operator

Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger data breach may have impacted millions of customers

Security Affairs newsletter Round 467 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Crooks manipulate GitHub's search results to distribute malware

BatBadBut flaw allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows

Roku disclosed a new security breach impacting 576,000 accounts

LastPass employee targeted via an audio deepfake call

TA547 targets German organizations with Rhadamanthys malware

CISA adds D-Link multiple NAS devices bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

US CISA published an alert on the Sisense data breach

Palo Alto Networks fixed multiple DoS bugs in its firewalls

Apple warns of mercenary spyware attacks on iPhone users in 92 countries

Microsoft fixed two zero-day bugs exploited in malware attacks

Group Health Cooperative data breach impacted 530,000 individuals

AT&T states that the data breach impacted 51 million former and current customers

Fortinet fixed a critical remote code execution bug in FortiClientLinux

Microsoft Patches Tuesday security updates for April 2024 fixed hundreds of issues

Cybersecurity in the Evolving Threat Landscape

Over 91,000 LG smart TVs running webOS are vulnerable to hacking

ScrubCrypt used to drop VenomRAT along with many malicious plugins

Google announces V8 Sandbox to protect Chrome users

China is using generative AI to carry out influence operations

Greylock McKinnon Associates data breach exposed DOJ data of 341650 people

Crowdfense is offering a larger 30M USD exploit acquisition program

U.S. Department of Health warns of attacks against IT help desks

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Over 92,000 Internet-facing D-Link NAS devices can be easily hacked

More than 16,000 Ivanti VPN gateways still vulnerable to RCE CVE-2024-21894

Cisco warns of XSS flaw in end-of-life small business routers

Magento flaw exploited to deploy persistent backdoor hidden in XML

Cyberattack disrupted services at Omni Hotels & Resorts

HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood technique can be exploited in DoS attacks

US cancer center City of Hope: data breach impacted 827149 individuals

Ivanti fixed for 4 new issues in Connect Secure and Policy Secure

Jackson County, Missouri, discloses a ransomware attack

Google addressed another Chrome zero-day exploited at Pwn2Own in March

The New Version of JsOutProx is Attacking Financial Institutions in APAC and MENA via Gitlab Abuse

Google fixed two actively exploited Pixel vulnerabilities

Highly sensitive files mysteriously disappeared from EUROPOL headquarters

XSS flaw in WordPress WP-Members Plugin can lead to script injection

Binarly released the free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor

Google agreed to erase billions of browser records to settle a class action lawsuit

PandaBuy data breach allegedly impacted over 1.3 million customers

OWASP discloses a data breach

New Vultur malware version includes enhanced remote control and evasion capabilities

Pentagon established the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy

Info stealer attacks target macOS users

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DinodasRAT Linux variant targets users worldwide

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million customers

Expert found a backdoor in XZ tools used many Linux distributions

German BSI warns of 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers

Cisco warns of password-spraying attacks targeting Secure Firewall devices

American fast-fashion firm Hot Topic hit by credential stuffing attacks

Cisco addressed high-severity flaws in IOS and IOS XE software

Google: China dominates government exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023

Google addressed 2 Chrome zero-days demonstrated at Pwn2Own 2024

CISA adds Microsoft SharePoint bug disclosed at Pwn2Own to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The DDR Advantage: Real-Time Data Defense

Finnish police linked APT31 to the 2021 parliament attack

TheMoon bot infected 40,000 devices in January and February

UK, New Zealand against China-linked cyber operations

US Treasury Dep announced sanctions against members of China-linked APT31

CISA adds FortiClient EMS, Ivanti EPM CSA, Nice Linear eMerge E3-Series bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Iran-Linked APT TA450 embeds malicious links in PDF attachments

StrelaStealer targeted over 100 organizations across the EU and US

GoFetch side-channel attack against Apple systems allows secret keys extraction

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Cybercriminals Accelerate Online Scams During Ramadan and Eid Fitr

Russia-linked APT29 targeted German political parties with WINELOADER backdoor

Mozilla fixed Firefox zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024

Large-scale Sign1 malware campaign already infected 39,000+ WordPress sites

German police seized the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market

Unsaflok flaws allow to open millions of doors using Dormakaba Saflok electronic locks

Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024: participants earned $1,132,500 for 29 unique 0-days

Critical Fortinet's FortiClient EMS flaw actively exploited in the wild

Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 Day 1 - team Synacktiv hacked a Tesla

New Loop DoS attack may target 300,000 vulnerable hosts

Critical flaw in Atlassian Bamboo Data Center and Server must be fixed immediately

Threat actors actively exploit JetBrains TeamCity flaws to deliver malware

BunnyLoader 3.0 surfaces in the threat landscape

Pokemon Company resets some users' passwords

Ukraine cyber police arrested crooks selling 100 million compromised accounts

New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices. Is it a Russia's weapon?

Players hacked during the matches of Apex Legends Global Series. Tournament suspended

Earth Krahang APT breached tens of government organizations worldwide

PoC exploit for critical RCE flaw in Fortra FileCatalyst transfer tool released

Fujitsu suffered a malware attack and probably a data breach

Remove WordPress miniOrange plugins, a critical flaw can allow site takeover

The Aviation and Aerospace Sectors Face Skyrocketing Cyber Threats

Email accounts of the International Monetary Fund compromised

Threat actors leaked 70,000,000+ records allegedly stolen from AT&T

“gitgub” malware campaign targets Github users with RisePro info-stealer

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France Travail data breach impacted 43 Million people

Scranton School District in Pennsylvania suffered a ransomware attack

Lazarus APT group returned to Tornado Cash to launder stolen funds

Moldovan citizen sentenced in connection with the E-Root cybercrime marketplace case

UK Defence Secretary jet hit by an electronic warfare attack in Poland

Cisco fixed high-severity elevation of privilege and DoS bugs

Recent DarkGate campaign exploited Microsoft Windows zero-day

Nissan Oceania data breach impacted roughly 100,000 people

Researchers found multiple flaws in ChatGPT plugins

Fortinet fixes critical bugs in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiClientEMS

Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after a third-party vendor hack

Stanford University announced that 27,000 individuals were impacted in the 2023 ransomware attack

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2024 fixed 59 flaws

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) alleges US is plotting to interfere in presidential election

First-ever South Korean national detained for espionage in Russia

Insurance scams via QR codes: how to recognise and defend yourself

Massive cyberattacks hit French government agencies

BianLian group exploits JetBrains TeamCity bugs in ransomware attacks

Experts released PoC exploit for critical Progress Software OpenEdge bug

Magnet Goblin group used a new Linux variant of NerbianRAT malware

Hackers exploited WordPress Popup Builder plugin flaw to compromise 3,300 sites

Lithuania security services warn of China's espionage against the country

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Threat actors breached two crucial systems of the US CISA

CISA adds JetBrains TeamCity bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Critical Fortinet FortiOS bug CVE-2024-21762 potentially impacts 150,000 internet-facing devices

QNAP fixed three flaws in its NAS devices, including an authentication bypass

Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard breached Microsoft systems again

Cisco addressed severe flaws in its Secure Client

Play ransomware attack on Xplain exposed 65,000 files containing data relevant to the Swiss Federal Administration.

2023 FBI Internet Crime Report reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 billion in 2023

National intelligence agency of Moldova warns of Russia attacks ahead of the presidential election

CISA adds Apple iOS and iPadOS memory corruption bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Linux Malware targets misconfigured misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis servers

CISA ADDS ANDROID PIXEL AND SUNHILLO SURELINE BUGS TO ITS KNOWN EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES CATALOG

Watch out, GhostSec and Stourmous groups jointly conducting ransomware attacks

LockBit 3.0’s Bungled Comeback Highlights the Undying Risk of Torrent-Based (P2P) Data Leakage

Apple emergency security updates fix two new iOS zero-days

VMware urgent updates addressed Critical ESXi Sandbox Escape bugs

US Gov sanctioned Intellexa Consortium individuals and entities behind Predator spyware attacks

CISA ADDS MICROSOFT WINDOWS KERNEL BUG USED BY LAZARUS APT TO ITS KNOWN EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES CATALOG

Experts disclosed two severe flaws in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software

Ukraine's GUR hacked the Russian Ministry of Defense

Some American Express customers' data exposed in a third-party data breach

META hit with privacy complaints by EU consumer groups

New GTPDOOR backdoor is designed to target telecom carrier networks

Threat actors hacked Taiwan-based Chunghwa Telecom

New Linux variant of BIFROSE RAT uses deceptive domain strategies

Eken camera doorbells allow ill-intentioned individuals to spy on you

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U.S. Judge ordered NSO Group to hand over the Pegasus spyware code to WhatsApp

U.S. authorities charged an Iranian national for long-running hacking campaign

US cyber and law enforcement agencies warn of Phobos ransomware attacks

Police seized Crimemarket, the largest German-speaking cybercrime marketplace

Five Eyes alliance warns of attacks exploiting known Ivanti Gateway flaws

Crooks stole €15 Million from European retail company Pepco

CISA adds Microsoft Streaming Service bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Researchers found a zero-click Facebook account takeover

New SPIKEDWINE APT group is targeting officials in Europe

Is the LockBit gang resuming its operation?

Lazarus APT exploited zero-day in Windows driver to gain kernel privileges

Pharmaceutical giant Cencora discloses a data breach

Unmasking 2024's Email Security Landscape

FBI, CISA, HHS warn of targeted ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware attacks against the healthcare sector

Russia-linked APT28 compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to facilitate cyber operations

Black Basta and Bl00dy ransomware gangs exploit recent ConnectWise ScreenConnect bugs

XSS flaw in LiteSpeed Cache plugin exposes millions of WordPress sites at risk

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US GOV OFFERS A REWARD OF UP TO $15M FOR INFO ON LOCKBIT GANG MEMBERS AND AFFILIATES

New Redis miner Migo uses novel system weakening techniques

Critical flaw found in deprecated VMware EAP. Uninstall it immediately

Microsoft Exchange flaw CVE-2024-21410 could impact up to 97,000 servers

ConnectWise fixed critical flaws in ScreenConnect remote access tool

More details about Operation Cronos that disrupted Lockbit operation

Cactus ransomware gang claims the theft of 1.5TB of data from Energy management and industrial automation firm Schneider Electric

Operation Cronos: law enforcement disrupted the LockBit operation

A Ukrainian Raccoon Infostealer operator is awaiting trial in the US

Russia-linked APT TAG-70 targets European government and military mail servers exploiting Roundcube XSS

How BRICS Got "Rug Pulled" – Cryptocurrency Counterfeiting is on the Rise

SolarWinds addressed critical RCEs in Access Rights Manager (ARM)

ESET fixed high-severity local privilege escalation bug in Windows products

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Ukrainian national faces up to 20 years in prison for his role in Zeus, IcedID malware schemes

CISA: Cisco ASA/FTD bug CVE-2020-3259 exploited in ransomware attacks

CISA adds Microsoft Exchange and Cisco ASA and FTD bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

US gov offers a reward of up to $10M for info on ALPHV/Blackcat gang leaders

U.S. CISA: hackers breached a state government organization

Russia-linked Turla APT uses new TinyTurla-NG backdoor to spy on Polish NGOs

US Gov dismantled the Moobot botnet controlled by Russia-linked APT28

A cyberattack halted operations at Varta production plants

North Korea-linked actors breached the emails of a Presidential Office member

CISA adds Microsoft Windows bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Nation-state actors are using AI services and LLMs for cyberattacks

Abusing the Ubuntu 'command-not-found' utility to install malicious packages

Zoom fixed critical flaw CVE-2024-24691 in Windows software

Adobe Patch Tuesday fixed critical vulnerabilities in Magento, Acrobat and Reader

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for February 2024 fixed 2 actively exploited 0-days

A ransomware attack took 100 Romanian hospitals down

Bank of America customer data compromised after a third-party services provider data breach

Ransomfeed - Third Quarter Report 2023 is out!

Global Malicious Activity Targeting Elections is Skyrocketing

Researchers released a free decryption tool for the Rhysida Ransomware

Residential Proxies vs. Datacenter Proxies: Choosing the Right Option

CISA adds Roundcube Webmail Persistent XSS bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Canada Gov plans to ban the Flipper Zero to curb car thefts

9 Possible Ways Hackers Can Use Public Wi-Fi to Steal Your Sensitive Data

US Feds arrested two men involved in the Warzone RAT operation

Raspberry Robin spotted using two new 1-day LPE exploits

Security Affairs newsletter Round 458 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

CISA adds Fortinet FortiOS bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

macOS Backdoor RustDoor likely linked to Alphv/BlackCat ransomware operations

Exploiting a vulnerable Minifilter Driver to create a process killer

Black Basta ransomware gang hacked Hyundai Motor Europe

Fortinet warns of a new actively exploited RCE flaw in FortiOS SSL VPN

Ivanti warns of a new auth bypass flaw in its Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateway devices

26 Cyber Security Stats Every User Should Be Aware Of in 2024

US offers $10 million reward for info on Hive ransomware group leaders

Unraveling the truth behind the DDoS attack from electric toothbrushes

China-linked APT Volt Typhoon remained undetected for years in US infrastructure

Cisco fixes critical Expressway Series CSRF vulnerabilities

CISA adds Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Fortinet addressed two critical FortiSIEM vulnerabilities

Experts warn of a critical bug in JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises

Critical shim bug impacts every Linux boot loader signed in the past decade

China-linked APT deployed malware in a network of the Dutch Ministry of Defence

Commercial spyware vendors are behind most zero-day exploits discovered by Google TAG

Google fixed an Android critical remote code execution flaw

A man faces up to 25 years in prison for his role in operating unlicensed crypto exchange BTC-e

U.S. Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware

HPE is investigating claims of a new security breach

Experts warn of a surge of attacks targeting Ivanti SSRF flaw

How to hack the Airbus NAVBLUE Flysmart+ Manager

Crooks stole $25.5 million from a multinational firm using a 'deepfake' video call

Software firm AnyDesk disclosed a security breach

The 'Mother of all Breaches': Navigating the Aftermath and Fortifying Your Data with DSPM

US government imposed sanctions on six Iranian intel officials

A cyberattack impacted operations at Lurie Children's Hospital

AnyDesk Incident: Customer Credentials Leaked and Published for Sale on the Dark Web

Security Affairs newsletter Round 457 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Clorox estimates the costs of the August cyberattack will exceed $49 Million

Mastodon fixed a flaw that can allow the takeover of any account

Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)

Operation Synergia led to the arrest of 31 individuals

Ex CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte sentenced to 40 years in prison

Cloudflare breached on Thanksgiving Day, but the attack was promptly contained

PurpleFox malware infected at least 2,000 computers in Ukraine

Man sentenced to six years in prison for stealing millions in cryptocurrency via SIM swapping

CISA orders federal agencies to disconnect Ivanti VPN instances by February 2

Multiple malware used in attacks exploiting Ivanti VPN flaws

Police seized 50,000 Bitcoin from operator of the now-defunct piracy site movie2k

Crooks stole around $112 million worth of XRP from Ripple’s co-founder

CISA adds Apple improper authentication bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Ivanti warns of a new actively exploited zero-day

Threat actors exploit Ivanti VPN bugs to deploy KrustyLoader Malware

Data leak at fintech giant Direct Trading Technologies

Root access vulnerability in GNU Library C (glibc) impacts many Linux distros

Italian data protection authority said that ChatGPT violated EU privacy laws

750 million Indian mobile subscribers' data offered for sale on dark web

Juniper Networks released out-of-band updates to fix high-severity flaws

Hundreds of network operators’ credentials found circulating in Dark Web

Cactus ransomware gang claims the Schneider Electric hack

Mercedes-Benz accidentally exposed sensitive data, including source code

Experts detailed Microsoft Outlook flaw that can leak NTLM v2 hashed passwords

NSA buys internet browsing records from data brokers without a warrant

Ukraine’s SBU arrested a member of Pro-Russia hackers group 'Cyber Army of Russia'

Multiple PoC exploits released for Jenkins flaw CVE-2024-23897

Medusa ransomware attack hit Kansas City Area Transportation Authority

Security Affairs newsletter Round 456 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Pro-Ukraine hackers wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian research center

Participants earned more than $1.3M at the Pwn2Own Automotive competition

A TrickBot malware developer sentenced to 64 months in prison

Russian Midnight Blizzard APT is targeting orgs worldwide, Microsoft warns

Watch out, experts warn of a critical flaw in Jenkins

Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 Day 2 - Tesla hacked again

Yearly Intel Trend Review: The 2023 RedSense report

Cisco warns of a critical bug in Unified Communications products, patch it now!

Russia-linked APT group Midnight Blizzard hacked Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

CISA adds Atlassian Confluence Data Center bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

5379 GitLab servers vulnerable to zero-click account takeover attacks

Experts released PoC exploit for Fortra GoAnywhere MFT flaw CVE-2024-0204

Splunk fixed high-severity flaw impacting Windows versions

Watch out, a new critical flaw affects Fortra GoAnywhere MFT

Australian government announced sanctions for Medibank hacker

LoanDepot data breach impacted roughly 16.6 individuals

Black Basta gang claims the hack of the UK water utility Southern Water

CISA adds VMware vCenter Server bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Mother of all breaches - a historic data leak reveals 26 billion records: check what's exposed

Apple fixed actively exploited zero-day CVE-2024-23222

“My Slice”, an Italian adaptive phishing campaign

Threat actors exploit Apache ActiveMQ flaw to deliver the Godzilla Web Shell

Cybercriminals leaked massive volumes of stolen PII data from Thailand in Dark Web

Backdoored pirated applications targets Apple macOS users

LockBit ransomware gang claims the attack on the sandwich chain Subway

Security Affairs newsletter Round 455 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release

VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers

China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021

Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128%

U.S. CISA warns of actively exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw CVE-2023-35082

The Quantum Computing Cryptopocalypse – I’ll Know It When I See It

Kansas State University suffered a serious cybersecurity incident

CISA adds Chrome and Citrix NetScaler to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Google TAG warns that Russian COLDRIVER APT is using a custom backdoor

PixieFail: Nine flaws in UEFI open-source reference implementation could have severe impacts

iShutdown lightweight method allows to discover spyware infections on iPhones

Pro-Russia group hit Swiss govt sites after Zelensky visit in Davos

Github rotated credentials after the discovery of a vulnerability

FBI, CISA warn of AndroxGh0st botnet for victim identification and exploitation

Citrix warns admins to immediately patch NetScaler for actively exploited zero-days

Google fixed the first actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2024

Atlassian fixed critical RCE in older Confluence versions

VMware fixed a critical flaw in Aria Automation. Patch it now!

Experts warn of mass exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure VPN flaws

Experts warn of a vulnerability affecting Bosch BCC100 Thermostat

Over 178,000 SonicWall next-generation firewalls (NGFW) online exposed to hack

Phemedrone info stealer campaign exploits Windows smartScreen bypass

Balada Injector continues to infect thousands of WordPress sites

Attackers target Apache Hadoop and Flink to deliver cryptominers

Apple fixed a bug in Magic Keyboard that allows to monitor Bluetooth traffic

Security Affairs newsletter Round 454 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

GitLab fixed a critical zero-click account hijacking flaw

Juniper Networks fixed a critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches

Vast Voter Data Leaks Cast Shadow Over Indonesia ’s 2024 Presidential Election

Researchers created a PoC for Apache OFBiz flaw CVE-2023-51467

Team Liquid’s wiki leak exposes 118K users

CISA adds Ivanti and Microsoft SharePoint bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Two zero-day bugs in Ivanti Connect Secure actively exploited

X Account of leading cybersecurity firm Mandiant was hacked because not adequately protected

Cisco fixed critical Unity Connection vulnerability CVE-2024-20272

ShinyHunters member sentenced to three years in prison

HMG Healthcare disclosed a data breach

Threat actors hacked the X account of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and announced fake Bitcoin ETF approval

Decryptor for Tortilla variant of Babuk ransomware released

Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2024 fixed 2 critical flaws

CISA adds Apache Superset bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Syrian group Anonymous Arabic distributes stealthy malware Silver RAT

Swiss Air Force sensitive files stolen in the hack of Ultra Intelligence & Communications

DoJ charged 19 individuals in a transnational cybercrime investigation xDedic Marketplace

Long-existing Bandook RAT targets Windows machines

A cyber attack hit the Beirut International Airport

Iranian crypto exchange Bit24.cash leaks user passports and IDs

Security Affairs newsletter Round 453 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Turkish Sea Turtle APT targets Dutch IT and Telecom firms

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea

Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 billion claim over NotPetya damages

The source code of Zeppelin Ransomware sold on a hacking forum

Russia-linked APT Sandworm was inside Ukraine telecoms giant Kyivstar for months

Ivanti fixed a critical EPM flaw that can result in remote code execution

MyEstatePoint Property Search Android app leaks user passwords

Hacker hijacked Orange Spain RIPE account causing internet outage to company customers

HealthEC data breach impacted more than 4.5 Million people

Experts found 3 malicious packages hiding crypto miners in PyPi repository

Crooks hacked Mandiant X account to push cryptocurrency scam

Cybercriminals Implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Invoice Fraud

CISA ADDS CHROME AND PERL LIBRARY FLAWS TO ITS KNOWN EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES CATALOG

Don’t trust links with known domains: BMW affected by redirect vulnerability

Hackers stole more than $81 million worth of crypto assets from Orbit Chain

Ukraine’s SBU said that Russia's intelligence hacked surveillance cameras to direct a missile strike on Kyiv

Experts warn of JinxLoader loader used to spread Formbook and XLoader

Terrapin attack allows to downgrade SSH protocol security

Multiple organizations in Iran were breached by a mysterious hacker

Top 2023 Security Affairs cybersecurity stories

Malware exploits undocumented Google OAuth endpoint to regenerate Google cookies

Cactus RANSOMWARE gang hit the Swedish retail and grocery provider Coop

Google agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit

Security Affairs newsletter Round 452 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

INC RANSOM ransomware gang claims to have breached Xerox Corp

Spotify music converter TuneFab puts users at risk

Cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania

Russia-linked APT28 used new malware in a recent phishing campaign

Clash of Clans gamers at risk while using third-party app

New Version of Meduza Stealer Released in Dark Web

Operation Triangulation attacks relied on an undocumented hardware feature

Cybercriminals launched “Leaksmas” event in the Dark Web exposing massive volumes of leaked PII and compromised data

Lockbit ransomware attack interrupted medical emergencies gang at a German hospital network

Experts warn of critical Zero-Day in Apache OfBiz

Xamalicious Android malware distributed through the Play Store

Barracuda fixed a new ESG zero-day exploited by Chinese group UNC4841

Elections 2024, artificial intelligence could upset world balances

Experts analyzed attacks against poorly managed Linux SSH servers

A cyberattack hit Australian healthcare provider St Vincent’s Health Australia

Rhysida ransomware group hacked Abdali Hospital in Jordan

Carbanak malware returned in ransomware attacks

Resecurity Released a 2024 Cyber Threat Landscape Forecast

APT group UAC-0099 targets Ukraine exploiting a WinRAR flaw

Iran-linked APT33 targets Defense Industrial Base sector with FalseFont backdoor

Security Affairs newsletter Round 451 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Europol and ENISA spotted 443 e-stores compromised with digital skimming

Video game giant Ubisoft investigates reports of a data breach

LockBit ransomware gang claims to have breached accountancy firm Xeinadin

Mobile virtual network operator Mint Mobile discloses a data breach

Akira ransomware gang claims the theft of sensitive data from Nissan Australia

Member of Lapsus$ gang sentenced to an indefinite hospital order

Real estate agency exposes details of 690k customers

ESET fixed a high-severity bug in the Secure Traffic Scanning Feature of several products

Phishing attacks use an old Microsoft Office flaw to spread Agent Tesla malware

Data leak exposes users of car-sharing service Blink Mobility

Google addressed a new actively exploited Chrome zero-day

German police seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market

Law enforcement Operation HAECHI IV led to the seizure of $300 Million

Sophisticated JaskaGO info stealer targets macOS and Windows

BMW dealer at risk of takeover by cybercriminals

Comcast’s Xfinity customer data exposed after CitrixBleed attack

FBI claims to have dismantled AlphV/Blackcat ransomware operation, but the group denies it

Smishing Triad: Cybercriminals Impersonate UAE Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship on the Peak of Holidays Season

The ransomware attack on Westpole is disrupting digital services for Italian public administration

Info stealers and how to protect against them

Pro-Israel Predatory Sparrow hacker group disrupted services at around 70% of Iran’s fuel stations

Qakbot is back and targets the Hospitality industry

A supply chain attack on crypto hardware wallet Ledger led to the theft of $600K

MongoDB investigates a cyberattack, customer data exposed

InfectedSlurs botnet targets QNAP VioStor NVR vulnerability

Security Affairs newsletter Round 450 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

New NKAbuse malware abuses NKN decentralized P2P network protocol

Snatch ransomware gang claims the hack of the food giant Kraft Heinz

Multiple flaws in pfSense firewall can lead to arbitrary code execution

BianLian, White Rabbit, and Mario Ransomware Gangs Spotted in a Joint Campaign

Data of over a million users of the crypto exchange GokuMarket exposed

Idaho National Laboratory data breach impacted 45,047 individuals

Ubiquiti users claim to have access to other people’s devices

Russia-linked APT29 spotted targeting JetBrains TeamCity servers

Microsoft seized the US infrastructure of the Storm-1152 cybercrime group

French authorities arrested a Russian national for his role in the Hive ransomware operation

China-linked APT Volt Typhoon linked to KV-Botnet

UK Home Office is ignoring the risk of 'catastrophic ransomware attacks,' report warns

OAuth apps used in cryptocurrency mining, phishing campaigns, and BEC attacks

Sophos backports fix for CVE-2022-3236 for EOL firewall firmware versions due to ongoing attacks

December 2023 Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixed 4 critical flaws

Ukrainian military intelligence service hacked the Russian Federal Taxation Service

Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile carrier brought down by a cyber attack

Dubai’s largest taxi app exposes 220K+ users

Operation Blacksmith: Lazarus exploits Log4j flaws to deploy DLang malware

Apple released iOS 17.2 to address a dozen of security flaws

Toyota Financial Services discloses a data breach

Apache fixed Critical RCE flaw CVE-2023-50164 in Struts 2

CISA adds Qlik Sense flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

CISA and ENISA signed a Working Arrangement to enhance cooperation

Researcher discovered a new lock screen bypass bug for Android 14 and 13

WordPress 6.4.2 fixed a Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw

Security Affairs newsletter Round 449 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Hacktivists hacked an Irish water utility and interrupted the water supply

5Ghoul flaws impact hundreds of 5G devices with Qualcomm, MediaTek chips

Norton Healthcare disclosed a data breach after a ransomware attack

Bypassing major EDRs using Pool Party process injection techniques

Founder of Bitzlato exchange has pleaded for unlicensed money transmitting

Android barcode scanner app exposes user passwords

UK and US expose Russia Callisto Group's activity and sanction members

A cyber attack hit Nissan Oceania

New Krasue Linux RAT targets telecom companies in Thailand

Atlassian addressed four new RCE flaws in its products

CISA adds Qualcomm flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Experts demonstrate a post-exploitation tampering technique to display Fake Lockdown mode

GST Invoice Billing Inventory exposes sensitive data to threat actors

Threat actors breached US govt systems by exploiting Adobe ColdFusion flaw

ENISA published the ENISA Threat Landscape for DoS Attacks Report

Russia-linked APT28 group spotted exploiting Outlook flaw to hijack MS Exchange accounts

Google fixed critical zero-click RCE in Android

New P2PInfect bot targets routers and IoT devices

Malvertising attacks rely on DanaBot Trojan to spread CACTUS Ransomware

LockBit on a Roll - ICBC Ransomware Attack Strikes at the Heart of the Global Financial Order

Zyxel fixed tens of flaws in Firewalls, Access Points, and NAS devices

New Agent Raccoon malware targets the Middle East, Africa and the US

Security Affairs newsletter Round 448 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Researchers devised an attack technique to extract ChatGPT training data

Fortune-telling website WeMystic exposes 13M+ user records

Expert warns of Turtle macOS ransomware

Black Basta Ransomware gang accumulated at least $107 million in Bitcoin ransom payments since early 2022

CISA adds ownCloud and Google Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Apple addressed 2 new iOS zero-day vulnerabilities

Critical Zoom Room bug allowed to gain access to Zoom Tenants

Rhysida ransomware group hacked King Edward VII’s Hospital in London

Google addressed the sixth Chrome Zero-Day vulnerability in 2023

Okta reveals additional attackers' activities in October 2023 Breach

Thousands of secrets lurk in app images on Docker Hub

Threat actors started exploiting critical ownCloud flaw CVE-2023-49103

International police operation dismantled a prominent Ukraine-based Ransomware group

Daixin Team group claimed the hack of North Texas Municipal Water District

Healthcare provider Ardent Health Services disclosed a ransomware attack

Ukraine's intelligence service hacked Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia

Iranian hacker group Cyber Av3ngers hacked the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in Pennsylvania

The hack of MSP provider CTS potentially impacted hundreds of UK law firms

Security Affairs newsletter Round 447 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Rhysida ransomware gang claimed China Energy hack

North Korea-linked APT Lazarus is using a MagicLine4NX zero-day flaw in supply chain attack

Hamas-linked APT uses Rust-based SysJoker backdoor against Israel

App used by hundreds of schools leaking children's data

Microsoft launched its new Microsoft Defender Bounty Program

Exposed Kubernetes configuration secrets can fuel supply chain attacks

North Korea-linked Konni APT uses Russian-language weaponized documents

ClearFake campaign spreads macOS AMOS information stealer

Welltok data breach impacted 8.5 million patients in the U.S.

North Korea-linked APT Diamond Sleet supply chain attack relies on CyberLink software

Automotive parts giant AutoZone disclosed data breach after MOVEit hack

New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days

SiegedSec hacktivist group hacked Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

CISA adds Looney Tunables Linux bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Citrix provides additional measures to address Citrix Bleed

Tor Project removed several relays associated with a suspicious cryptocurrency scheme

Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education and government sectors

The Top 5 Reasons to Use an API Management Platform

Canadian government impacted by data breaches of two of its contractors

Rhysida ransomware gang is auctioning data stolen from the British Library

Russia-linked APT29 group exploited WinRAR 0day in attacks against embassies

DarkCasino joins the list of APT groups exploiting WinRAR zero-day

US teenager pleads guilty to his role in credential stuffing attack on a betting site

Security Affairs newsletter Round 446 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

8Base ransomware operators use a new variant of the Phobos ransomware

Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine

The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman

Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services

CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Zimbra zero-day exploited to steal government emails by four groups

Vietnam Post exposes 1.2TB of data, including email addresses

Samsung suffered a new data breach

FBI and CISA warn of attacks by Rhysida ransomware gang

Critical flaw fixed in SAP Business One product

Law enforcement agencies dismantled the illegal botnet proxy service IPStorm

Gamblers’ data compromised after casino giant Strendus fails to set password

VMware disclosed a critical and unpatched authentication bypass flaw in VMware Cloud Director Appliance

Danish critical infrastructure hit by the largest cyber attack in Denmark's history

Major Australian ports blocked after a cyber attack on DP World

Nuclear and Oil & Gas are Major Targets of Ransomware Groups in 2024

CISA adds five vulnerabilities in Juniper devices to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

LockBit ransomware gang leaked data stolen from Boeing

North Korea-linked APT Sapphire Sleet targets IT job seekers with bogus skills assessment portals

The Lorenz ransomware group hit Texas-based Cogdell Memorial Hospital

The State of Maine disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.3M people

Security Affairs newsletter Round 445 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Police seized BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform

Serbian pleads guilty to running ‘Monopoly’ dark web drug market

McLaren Health Care revealed that a data breach impacted 2.2 million people

After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) suffered a ransomware attack

SysAid zero-day exploited by Clop ransomware group

Dolly.com pays ransom, attackers release data anyway

DDoS attack leads to significant disruption in ChatGPT services

Russian Sandworm disrupts power in Ukraine with a new OT attack

Veeam fixed multiple flaws in Veeam ONE, including critical issues

Pro-Palestinian hackers group 'Soldiers of Solomon' disrupted the production cycle of the biggest flour production plant in Israel

Iranian Agonizing Serpens APT is targeting Israeli entities with destructive cyber attacks

Critical Confluence flaw exploited in ransomware attacks

QNAP fixed two critical vulnerabilities in QTS OS and apps

Attackers use Google Calendar RAT to abuse Calendar service as C2 infrastructure

Socks5Systemz proxy service delivered via PrivateLoader and Amadey

US govt sanctioned a Russian woman for laundering virtual currency on behalf of threat actors

Security Affairs newsletter Round 444 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Lazarus targets blockchain engineers with new KandyKorn macOS Malware

Kinsing threat actors probed the Looney Tunables flaws in recent attacks

ZDI discloses four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange

Okta customer support system breach impacted 134 customers

Multiple WhatsApp mods spotted containing the CanesSpy Spyware

Russian FSB arrested Russian hackers who supported Ukrainian cyber operations

MuddyWater has been spotted targeting two Israeli entities

Clop group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees

Okta discloses a new data breach after a third-party vendor was hacked

Suspected exploitation of Apache ActiveMQ flaw CVE-2023-46604 to install HelloKitty ransomware

Boeing confirmed its services division suffered a cyberattack

Resecurity: Insecurity of 3rd-parties leads to Aadhaar data leaks in India

Who is behind the Mozi Botnet kill switch?

CISA adds two F5 BIG-IP flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Threat actors actively exploit F5 BIG-IP flaws CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748

Pro-Hamas hacktivist group targets Israel with BiBi-Linux wiper

British Library suffers major outage due to cyberattack

Critical Atlassian Confluence flaw can lead to significant data loss

WiHD leak exposes details of all torrent users

Experts released PoC exploit code for Cisco IOS XE flaw CVE-2023-20198

Canada bans WeChat and Kaspersky apps on government-issued mobile devices

Florida man sentenced to prison for SIM Swapping conspiracy that led to theft of $1M in cryptocurrency

Wiki-Slack attack allows redirecting business professionals to malicious websites

HackerOne awarded over $300 million bug hunters

StripedFly, a complex malware that infected one million devices without being noticed

IT Army of Ukraine disrupted internet providers in territories occupied by Russia

Security Affairs newsletter Round 443 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bug hunters earned $1,038,250 for 58 unique 0-days at Pwn2Own Toronto 2023

Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from Boeing

How to Collect Market Intelligence with Residential Proxies?

F5 urges to address a critical flaw in BIG-IP

Hello Alfred app exposes user data

iLeakage attack exploits Safari to steal data from Apple devices

Cloudflare mitigated 89 hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed DDoS attacks exceeding 100 million rps

Seiko confirmed a data breach after BlackCat attack

Winter Vivern APT exploited zero-day in Roundcube webmail software in recent attacks

Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 Day 1 - organizers awarded $438,750 in prizes

VMware addressed critical vCenter flaw also for End-of-Life products

Citrix warns admins to patch NetScaler CVE-2023-4966 bug immediately

New England Biolabs leak sensitive data

Former NSA employee pleads guilty to attempted selling classified documents to Russia

Experts released PoC exploit code for VMware Aria Operations for Logs flaw. Patch it now!

How did the Okta Support breach impact 1Password?

PII Belonging to Indian Citizens, Including their Aadhaar IDs, Offered for Sale on the Dark Web

Spain police dismantled a cybercriminal group who stole the data of 4 million individuals

CISA adds second Cisco IOS XE flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Cisco warns of a second IOS XE zero-day used to infect devices worldwide

City of Philadelphia suffers a data breach

SolarWinds fixed three critical RCE flaws in its Access Rights Manager product

Don't use AI-based apps, Philippine defense ordered its personnel

Vietnamese threat actors linked to DarkGate malware campaign

MI5 chief warns of Chinese cyber espionage reached an unprecedented scale

The attack on the International Criminal Court was targeted and sophisticated

Security Affairs newsletter Round 442 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A threat actor is selling access to Facebook and Instagram's Police Portal

Threat actors breached Okta support system and stole customers' data

US DoJ seized domains used by North Korean IT workers to defraud businesses worldwide

Alleged developer of the Ragnar Locker ransomware was arrested

CISA adds Cisco IOS XE flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Tens of thousands Cisco IOS XE devices were hacked by exploiting CVE-2023-20198

Law enforcement operation seized Ragnar Locker group's infrastructure

THE 11TH EDITION OF THE ENISA THREAT LANDSCAPE REPORT IS OUT!

North Korea-linked APT groups actively exploit JetBrains TeamCity flaw

Multiple APT groups exploited WinRAR flaw CVE-2023-38831

Californian IT company DNA Micro leaks private mobile phone data

Threat actors have been exploiting CVE-2023-4966 in Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway devices since August

A flaw in Synology DiskStation Manager allows admin account takeover

D-Link confirms data breach, but downplayed the impact

CVE-2023-20198 zero-day widely exploited to install implants on Cisco IOS XE systems

Russia-linked Sandworm APT compromised 11 Ukrainian telecommunications providers

Ransomware realities in 2023: one employee mistake can cost a company millions

Malware-laced 'RedAlert - Rocket Alerts' app targets Israeli users

Cisco warns of active exploitation of IOS XE zero-day

Signal denies claims of an alleged zero-day flaw in its platform

Microsoft Defender thwarted Akira ransomware attack on an industrial engineering firm

DarkGate malware campaign abuses Skype and Teams

The Alphv ransomware gang stole 5TB of data from the Morrison Community Hospital

Security Affairs newsletter Round 441 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Lockbit ransomware gang demanded an 80 million ransom to CDW

CISA warns of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations exploited in ransomware attacks

Stayin' Alive campaign targets high-profile Asian government and telecom entities. Is it linked to ToddyCat APT?

FBI and CISA published a new advisory on AvosLocker ransomware

More than 17,000 WordPress websites infected with the Balada Injector in September

Ransomlooker, a new tool to track and analyze ransomware groups' activities

Phishing, the campaigns that are targeting Italy

A new Magecart campaign hides the malicious code in 404 error page

CISA adds Adobe Acrobat Reader flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Mirai-based DDoS botnet IZ1H9 added 13 payloads to target routers

Air Europa data breach exposed customers' credit cards

#OpIsrael, #FreePalestine & #OpSaudiArabia - How Cyber Actors Capitalize On War Actions Via Psy-Ops

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for October 2023 fixed three actively exploited zero-day flaws

New 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' technique behind record-breaking DDoS attacks

Exposed security cameras in Israel and Palestine pose significant risks

A flaw in libcue library impacts GNOME Linux systems

Hacktivists in Palestine and Israel after SCADA and other industrial control systems

Large-scale Citrix NetScaler Gateway credential harvesting campaign exploits CVE-2023-3519

The source code of the 2020 variant of HelloKitty ransomware was leaked on a cybercrime forum

Gaza-linked hackers and Pro-Russia groups are targeting Israel

Flagstar Bank suffered a data breach once again

Android devices shipped with backdoored firmware as part of the BADBOX network

Security Affairs newsletter Round 440 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT laundered over $900 million through cross-chain crime

QakBot threat actors are still operational after the August takedown

Ransomware attack on MGM Resorts costs $110 Million

Cybersecurity, why a hotline number could be important?

Multiple experts released exploits for Linux local privilege escalation flaw Looney Tunables

Cisco Emergency Responder is affected by a critical Static Credentials bug. Fix it immediately!

Belgian intelligence service VSSE accused Alibaba of ‘possible espionage’ at European hub in Liege

CISA adds JetBrains TeamCity and Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

NATO is investigating a new cyber attack claimed by the SiegedSec group

Global CRM Provider Exposed Millions of Clients’ Files Online

Sony sent data breach notifications to about 6,800 individuals

Apple fixed the 17th zero-day flaw exploited in attacks

Atlassian Confluence zero-day CVE-2023-22515 actively exploited in attacks

A cyberattack disrupted Lyca Mobile services

Chipmaker Qualcomm warns of three actively exploited zero-days

DRM Report Q2 2023 - Ransomware threat landscape

Phishing campaign targeted US executives exploiting a flaw in Indeed job search platform

San Francisco’s transport agency exposes drivers’ parking permits and addresses

BunnyLoader, a new Malware-as-a-Service advertised in cybercrime forums

Exclusive: Lighting the Exfiltration Infrastructure of a LockBit Affiliate (and more)

Two hacker groups are back in the news, LockBit 3.0 Black and BlackCat/AlphV

European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) suffered a data breach

WS_FTP flaw CVE-2023-40044 actively exploited in the wild

National Logistics Portal (NLP) data leak: seaports in India were left vulnerable to takeover by hackers

North Korea-linked Lazarus targeted a Spanish aerospace company

Ransomware attack on Johnson Controls may have exposed sensitive DHS data

BlackCat gang claims they stole data of 2.5 million patients of McLaren Health Care

Security Affairs newsletter Round 439 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang hacked the hotel chain Motel One

FBI warns of dual ransomware attacks

Progress Software fixed two critical severity flaws in WS_FTP Server

Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive

A still unpatched zero-day RCE impacts more than 3.5M Exim servers

Chinese threat actors stole around 60,000 emails from US State Department in Microsoft breach

Misconfigured WBSC server leaks thousands of passports

CISA adds JBoss RichFaces Framework flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Cisco urges to patch actively exploited IOS zero-day CVE-2023-20109

Dark Angels Team ransomware group hit Johnson Controls

GOOGLE FIXED THE FIFTH CHROME ZERO-DAY OF 2023

Russian zero-day broker is willing to pay $20M for zero-day exploits for iPhones and Android devices

China-linked APT BlackTech was spotted hiding in Cisco router firmware

Watch out! CVE-2023-5129 in libwebp library affects millions applications

DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

'Ransomed.vc' in the Spotlight - What is Known About the Ransomware Group Targeting Sony and NTT Docomo

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