Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2011
Cyber warfare expert John Bumgarner claims that the Stuxnet and Duqu virus have been active for much longer than previously suspected, he says that they are active in different variant since 2006. ...
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2011
During this days I had the opportunity to read the results of a couple of surveys: The PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Its Global Economic Crime Survey has demonstrated that Cybercrime h ...
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2011
Social Network Poisoning term refers the effect produced by the application of methods designed to make unreliable the knowledge related to a profile and its relationships. "Be Social" is the imper ...
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2011
If we talk about security which could be our worst nightmare? My answer is "to be vulnerable in every moment of our day, whatever we are doing and wherever we are" How could this happen? Imagine t ...
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Cloud identity and access management solutions provider Okta revealed additional threat actor activity linked to the October 2023 breach. Okta provided additional details about the October 20 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2023
Thousands of secrets have been left exposed on Docker Hub, a platform where web developers collaborate on their code for web applications. While some are harmless API keys, others could lead to unaut ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2023
Threat actors started exploiting a critical ownCloud vulnerability (CVE-2023-49103) that can lead to sensitive information disclosure. ownCloud is an open-source software platform designed for fil ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2023
An international law enforcement operation dismantled the core of a ransomware group operating from Ukraine. A joint law enforcement operation led by Europol and Eurojust, with the support of the ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2023
The Daixin Team group claims to have hacked the North Texas Municipal Water District (US) and threatened to leak the stolen data. The North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) is a regional wa ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2023
The US Healthcare provider Ardent Health Services disclosed that it was the victim of a ransomware attack last week. Ardent Health Services is a healthcare company that operates hospitals and othe ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2023
Ukraine's intelligence service announced the hack of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency, 'Rosaviatsia.' Ukraine's intelligence service announced they have hacked Russia's Federal Air Transpo ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2023
Threat actors breached the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in Pennsylvania and took control of a booster station. During the weekend, Iranian threat actors hacked the Municipal Water Author ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2023
The cyber attack that hit the managed service provider (MSP) CTS potentially impacted hundreds in the United Kingdom. CTS is a trusted provider of IT services to the legal sector in the UK. The co ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2023
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Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2023
The Rhysida ransomware group claimed to have hacked the Chinese state-owned energy conglomerate China Energy Engineering Corporation. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the China Energy Engineering ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2023
UK and South Korea agencies warn that North Korea-linked APT Lazarus is using a MagicLine4NX zero-day flaw in supply-chain attack The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and Korea's National Int ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2023
Researchers reported that a Hamas-linked APT group is using a Rust-based SysJoker backdoor against Israeli entities. Check Point researchers observed a Hamas-linked APT group is using the SysJoker ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2023
Almost a million files with minors' data, including home addresses and photos were left open to anyone on the internet, posing a threat to children. During a recent investigation, the Cybernews re ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2023
Microsoft announced this week it will pay up to $20,000 for security vulnerabilities in its Defender products. Microsoft launched its new Microsoft Defender Bounty Program with a focus on Defender ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2023
Researchers warn of publicly exposed Kubernetes configuration secrets that could pose a threat of supply chain attack for organizations. Aqua Nautilus researchers warn of publicly exposed Kubernet ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2023
North Korea-linked Konni APT group used Russian-language Microsoft Word documents to deliver malware. FortiGuard Labs researchers observed the North Korea-linked Konni APT group using a weaponized ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2023
Threat actors spread Atomic Stealer (AMOS) macOS information stealer via a bogus web browser update as part of the ClearFake campaign. Atomic Stealer (AMOS) macOS information stealer is now being ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2023
Healthcare services provider Welltok disclosed a data breach that impacted nearly 8.5 million patients in the U.S. Welltok is a company that specializes in health optimization solutions. It provi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2023
North Korea-linked APT group Diamond Sleet is distributing a trojanized version of the CyberLink software in a supply chain attack. Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers uncovered a supply cha ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2023
American retailer and distributor of automotive parts and accessories AutoZone discloses a data breach after a MOVEit attack. AutoZone is an American retailer and distributor of automotive parts a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2023
Mirai-based botnet InfectedSlurs has been spotted exploiting two zero-day RCE flaws to compromise routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. Akamai discovered a new Mirai-based DDoS botnet, named I ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2023
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) disclosed a data breach after the SiegedSec hacktivist group leaked stolen human resources data. SiegedSec hacktivists group claimed responsibility for the hack ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2023
US CISA adds Looney Tunables Linux flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Looney Tunables Linux ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2023
TmaxSoft, a Korean IT company developing and selling enterprise software has leaked over 50 million sensitive records. The 2 TB-strong Kibana dashboard has been exposed for over two years. Cyberne ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2023
Citrix urges admins to kill NetScaler user sessions after patching their appliances against the CVE-2023-4966 Citrix Bleed vulnerability. Citrix is providing additional measures to admins who are ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2023
The Tor Project removed several relays that were used as part of a cryptocurrency scheme and represented a threat to the users. The Tor Project announced the removal of multiple network relays t ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2023
Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education, government, and business services sectors. The Carbon Black Managed Detection & Response team is warning of a surge in the ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2023
Organizations need to govern and control the API ecosystem, this governance is the role of API management. Uber uses APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to connect with third-party services ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2023
The Canadian government discloses a data breach after threat actors hacked two of its contractors. The Canadian government declared that two of its contractors,Brookfield Global Relocation S ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2023
The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to th ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2023
Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT29 has been observed leveraging the CVE-2023-38831 vulnerability in WinRAR in recent attacks. The Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NDSC) repor ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2023
The DarkCasino APT group leveraged a recently disclosed WinRAR zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38831. Researchers at cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS analyzed DarkCasino attack pattern exploi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2023
US teenager Joseph Garrison pleads guilty to carrying out a credential stuffing attack on a betting website. US teenager Joseph Garrison (19) has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a credential ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2023
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Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2023
8Base ransomware operators were observed using a variant of the Phobos ransomware in a recent wave of attacks. Cisco Talos researchers observed 8Base ransomware operators using a variant of the ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2023
Russia-linked cyberespionage group Gamaredon has been spotted propagating a worm called LitterDrifter via USB. Check Point researchers observed Russia-linked Gamaredon spreading the worm called ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2023
OpenAI fired its CEO Sam Altman, and the Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead the company. Sam Altman has been removed as CEO of OpenAI. The company announced that Mi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2023
Toyota Financial Services discloses unauthorized activity on systems after the Medusa ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company. Toyota Financial Services confirmed the discovery of unaut ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2023
US CISA added three new vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2023-36584, CVE-2023-1671, and CVE-2023-2551) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2023
Google TAG revealed that threat actors exploited a Zimbra Collaboration Suite zero-day (CVE-2023-37580) to steal emails from governments. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers revealed t ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2023
Vietnam Post Corporation, a Vietnamese government-owned postal service, exposed security logs and employee email addresses to external cyber threats Vietnam Post Corporation, a Vietnamese governme ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2023
Samsung Electronics disclosed a data breach that exposed customer personal information to an unauthorized individual. Samsung Electronics suffered a data breach that exposed the personal informati ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2023
The FBI and CISA warn of attacks carried out by the Rhysida ransomware group against organizations across multiple industry sectors. FBI and CISA published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2023
Enterprise software giant SAP addressed a critical improper access control vulnerability in its Business One product. SAP November 2023 Security Patch Day includes three new and three updated secu ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2023
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) dismantled the infrastructure behind the illegal botnet proxy service IPStorm. The IPStorm botnet was first uncovered in May 2019 while targeting Windows ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2023
Mexican online casino Strendus has exposed sensitive user data, including home addresses and the amounts of money they spent on gambling. Strendus, one of the biggest online casinos in Mexico has ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2023
VMware disclosed a critical bypass vulnerability in VMware Cloud Director Appliance that can be exploited to bypass login restrictions when authenticating on certain ports. VMware disclosed an aut ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2023
Danish critical infrastructure was hit by the largest cyber attack on record that hit the country, according to Denmark's SektorCERT. In May, Danish critical infrastructure faced the biggest cyber ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2023
A cyber attack on the logistics giant DP World caused significant disruptions in the operations of several major Australian ports. A cyberattack hit the international logistics firm DP World Aust ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2023
Experts warn of an alarming rise in ransomware operations targeting the energy sector, including nuclear facilities and related research entities. Resecurity, Inc. (USA) protecting major Fortune 1 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2023
US CISA added four vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2023-36844, CVE-2023-36845, CVE-2023-36846, and CVE-2023-36847) in Juniper devices to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybe ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2023
The LockBit ransomware group published data allegedly stolen from the aerospace giant Boeing in a recent attack. The Boeing Company, commonly known as Boeing, is one of the world’s largest aeros ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2023
North Korea-linked APT group Sapphire Sleet set up bogus skills assessment portals in attacks aimed at IT job seekers. The North Korea-linked APT group Sapphire Sleet (aka APT38, BlueNoroff, Cagey ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2023
The Lorenz extortion group leaked the data stolen from the Texas-based Cogdell Memorial Hospital. In early November, the Cogdell Memorial Hospital (Scurry County Hospital District) announced it w ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2023
The State of Maine disclosed a data breach that impacted about 1.3 million people after an attack hit its MOVEit file transfer install. The State of Maine was the victim of the large-scale hack ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2023
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Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2023
The Royal Malaysian Police announced the seizure of the notorious BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. The Royal Malaysian Police announced to have dismantled the notorious Bu ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2023
The Serbian citizen Milomir Desnica (33) has pleaded guilty to running the dark web Monopoly drug marketplace. Milomir Desnica, a 33-year-old Serbian citizen, admited to being responsible for oper ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2023
McLaren Health Care (McLaren) experienced a data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information of approximately 2.2 million individuals. McLaren Health Care (McLaren) disclosed a data ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2023
After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The hacktivist group Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility for the massive di ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2023
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted trades in the US Treasury market. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) announced it has ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2023
Microsoft spotted the exploitation of a SysAid zero-day vulnerability in limited attacks carried out by the Lace Tempest group. Microsoft reported the exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability, tra ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2023
On-demand moving and delivery platform Dolly.com allegedly paid a ransom but crooks found an excuse not to hold their end of the bargain. Cybercriminals are hardly a trustworthy bunch. Case in poi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2023
OpenAI confirmed that the outage suffered by ChatGPT and its API on Wednesday was caused by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. OpenAI confirmed earlier today that the outage suffered ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2023
Mandiant reported that Russia-linked Sandworm APT used a novel OT attack to cause power outages during mass missile strikes on Ukraine. Mandiant researchers reported that Russia-linked APT group S ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2023
Veeam addressed multiple vulnerabilities in its Veeam ONE IT infrastructure monitoring and analytics platform, including two critical issues. Veeam addressed four vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-38547, ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2023
Pro-Palestinian hackers group 'Soldiers of Solomon' claims to have hacked one of the largest Israeli flour plants causing severe damage to the operations. The Pro-Palestinian hackers group 'Soldie ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2023
Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group has been targeting Israeli organizations with destructive cyber attacks since January. Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group (aka Agrius, BlackShadow,&n ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2023
Experts warn threat actors that started exploiting a recent critical flaw CVE-2023-22518 in Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server. Over the weekend threat actors started exploiting a recent ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2023
Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns of two critical command injection flaws in the QTS operating system and applications on its NAS devices. Taiwanese vendor QNAP Systems addressed two critical command in ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2023
Google warns of multiple threat actors that are leveraging its Calendar service as a command-and-control (C2) infrastructure. Google warns of multiple threat actors sharing a public proof-of-con ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2023
Threat actors infected more than 10,000 devices worldwide with the 'PrivateLoader' and 'Amadey' loaders to recruit them into the proxy botnet 'Socks5Systemz.' Bitsight researchers uncovered a pro ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2023
The Treasury Department sanctioned a Russian woman accused of laundering virtual currency on behalf of cybercriminals. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2023
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Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2023
North Korea-linked Lazarus group is using new KandyKorn macOS Malware in attacks against blockchain engineers. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group were spotted using new KandyKorn macOS malware i ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2023
Kinsing threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed Linux privilege escalation flaw Looney Tunables to target cloud environments. Researchers are cloud security firm Aqua have observed th ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2023
Researchers disclosed four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange that can be remotely exploited to execute arbitrary code or disclose sensitive information on vulnerable installs. Trend Micro's Zer ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2023
Threat actors who breached the Okta customer support system also gained access to files belonging to 134 customers. Threat actors who breached the Okta customer support system in October gained ac ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2023
Kaspersky researchers are warning of multiple WhatsApp mods that embed a spyware module dubbed CanesSpy. Kaspersky researchers discovered multiple WhatsApp mods that embed a spyware module du ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2023
The FSB arrested two Russian hackers who are accused of having helped Ukrainian entities carry out cyberattacks on critical infrastructure targets. The Russian intelligence agency Federal Security ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2023
Iran-linked cyberespionage group MuddyWater is targeting Israeli entities in a new spear-phishing campaign. Iran-linked APT group MuddyWater (aka SeedWorm, TEMP.Zagros, and&nbs ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2023
Clop ransomware gang gained access to the email addresses of more than 632K US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice. Russian-speaking Clop ransomware group gained access to ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2023
Okta warns approximately 5,000 employees that their personal information was compromised due to a third-party vendor data breach. Cloud identity and access management solutions provider Okta warns ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2023
Rapid7 researchers warn of the suspected exploitation of a recently disclosed critical security flaw (CVE-2023-46604) in the Apache ActiveMQ. Cybersecurity researchers at Rapid7 are warning of the ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2023
Boeing confirmed it is facing a cyber incident that hit its global services division, the company pointed out that flight safety isn’t affected. The Boeing Company, commonly known as Boeing, is ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2023
Data leaks containing Aadhaar IDs in India were caused by the insecurity of 3rd parties while aggregating such information for KYC. According to Resecurity, a global cybersecurity provider protect ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2023
Researchers speculate that the recent shutdown of the Mozi botnet was the response of its authors to the pressure from Chinese law enforcement. ESET researchers speculate that the recent shutdown ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2023
US CISA added two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748, in BIG-IP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agenc ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2023
Experts warn that threat actors started exploiting the critical flaw CVE-2023-46747 in F5 BIG-IP installs less than five days after PoC exploit disclosure. F5 this week warned customers about a cr ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2023
A pro-Hamas hacker group is targeting Israeli entities using a new Linux-based wiper malware dubbed BiBi-Linux Wiper. During a forensics investigation, Security Joes Incident Response team di ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2023
Last weekend, the British Library suffered a cyberattack that caused a major IT outage, impacting many of its services. The British Library is facing a major outage that impacts the website and ma ...
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2023
Atlassian warned of a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22518, in the Confluence Data Center and Server. Atlassian is warning of a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-2 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2023
World-in-HD (WiHD), a French private video torrent community, left an open instance exposing the emails and passwords of all of its users and administrators. WiHD, a popular torrent tracker specia ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2023
Researchers publicly released the exploit code for the critical Cisco IOS XE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20198. Researchers from Researchers at Horizon3.ai publicly released the exploit code ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2023
Canada banned the Chinese messaging app WeChat and Kaspersky antivirus on government mobile devices due to privacy and security risks. The Government of Canada announced a ban on the use of the We ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2023
A man from Orlando was sentenced to prison for SIM Swapping conspiracy that led to the theft of approximately $1M in cryptocurrency. Jordan Dave Persad (20), from Orlando, Florida, was sentenced t ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2023
eSentire researchers devised a new attack technique, named Wiki-Slack attack, that can be used to redirect business professionals to malicious websites. eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU) secur ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2023
HackerOne announced that it has awarded over $300 million bug hunters as part of its bug bounty programs since the launch of its platform. HackerOne announced that it has surpassed $300 million in ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2023
A sophisticated malware tracked as StripedFly remained undetected for five years and infected approximately one million devices. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a sophisticated malware, dubb ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2023
IT Army of Ukraine hacktivists have temporarily disrupted internet services in some of the territories that have been occupied by Russia. Ukrainian hacktivists belonging to the IT Army of Ukraine� ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2023
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Pierluigi Paganini
October 29, 2023
The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition is over, bug hunters earned $1,038,500 for 58 zero-day exploits. The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition is over, the organizers awarded $1,038,25 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 28, 2023
The Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor Boeing and threatened to leak the stolen data. The Boeing Company, commonly known as Boeing, is ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2023
France National Agency for the Security of Information Systems warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group has breached several critical networks. The French National Agency for the Security of Infor ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2023
How residential proxies using real IPs from diverse locations enable businesses to gather comprehensive and accurate data from the web Since the adoption of the first digital tools and connection ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2023
F5 warns customers of a critical vulnerability impacting BIG-IP that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. F5 is warning customers about a critical security vulnerability, tracked a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2023
Hello Alfred, an in-home hospitality app, left a database accessible without password protection, exposing almost 170,000 records containing private user data. Hello Alfred is a one-stop applicat ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2023
Boffins devised a new iLeakage side-channel speculative execution attack exploits Safari to steal sensitive data from Macs, iPhones, and iPads. A team of researchers from the University of Michiga ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2023
Cloudflare mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exploiting the flaw HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. Cloudflare DDoS threat report of 2023 states that the c ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2023
Japanese watchmaker Seiko revealed that the attack that suffered earlier this year was carried out by the Black Cat ransomware gang. On August 10, 2023, the Japanese maker of watches Seiko disclos ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2023
Russia-linked threat actor Winter Vivern has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Roundcube webmail software. Russian APT group Winter Vivern (aka TA473) has been observed exploiting a ze ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 26, 2023
The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking contest has begun and during the first day, participants received $438,750 in prizes! During the Day 1 of the Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking contest, the organizatio ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2023
VMware addressed a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-34048, that impacts vCenter Server. vCenter Server is a critical component in VMware virtualization and cloud c ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2023
Citrix warned of attacks actively exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2023-4966 in NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances. Citrix is urging administrators to secure all NetScaler ADC and Gateway applia ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2023
On September 18th, the Cybernews research team discovered two publicly hosted environment files (.env) attributed to New England Biolabs. Leaving environment files open to the public is one of the ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 25, 2023
A former NSA employee has pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to transmit classified defense information to Russia. Jareh Sebastian Dalke (31), a former NSA employee has admitted to attempting ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2023
VMware is aware of the availability of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for an authentication bypass flaw in VMware Aria Operations for Logs. VMware warned customers of the availability of a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2023
1Password detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance after the recent compromise of the Okta support system. The password management and security application 1Password announced it had dete ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2023
Hundreds of millions of PII records belonging to Indian residents, including Aadhaar cards, are being offered for sale on the Dark Web. PII Belonging to Indian Citizens, Including their Aadhaar ID ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2023
The Spanish police have arrested 34 members of the cybercriminal group that is accused of having stolen data of over four million individuals. The Spanish police have arrested 34 members of a cybe ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2023
US CISA added the vulnerability CVE-2023-20273 in Cisco IOS XE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the vulner ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2023
Cisco found a second IOS XE zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20273, which is actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Cisco last week warned customers of a zero-day vulnerability, ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2023
The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. The City of Philadelphia announced it is inve ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2023
Researchers discovered three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) product. Security researchers discovered three critical remote code execu ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2023
The Philippine defense ordered its personnel to stop using AI-based applications to generate personal portraits. The Philippine defense warned of the risks of using AI-based applications to genera ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2023
Researchers linked Vietnamese threat actors to the string of DarkGate malware attacks on entities in the U.K., the U.S., and India. WithSecure researchers linked the recent attacks using the DarkG ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2023
MI5 chief warns Chinese cyber espionage reached an epic scale, more than 20,000 people in the UK have now been targeted. The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, warns that Chinese spies targeted more than ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2023
The International Criminal Court revealed the recent attack was carried out by a threat actor for espionage purposes. The International Criminal Court shared additional information about the cyber ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2023
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Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2023
A threat actor is selling access to Facebook and Instagram's Police Portal used by law enforcement agencies to request data relating to users under investigation. Cyber security researcher Alon Ga ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2023
Okta revealed that threat actors breached its support case management system and stole sensitive data that can be used in future attacks. Okta says that threat actors broke into its support case m ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2023
The U.S. government seized 17 website domains used by North Korean IT workers in a fraudulent scheme to defraud businesses worldwide. The U.S. government announced the seizure of 17 website doma ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2023
A joint international law enforcement investigation led to the arrest of a malware developer who was involved in the Ragnar Locker ransomware operation. Yesterday we became aware of a joint law en ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2023
US CISA added the vulnerability CVE-2021-1435 in Cisco IOS XE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the vulnera ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2023
More than 40,000 Cisco IOS XE devices have been compromised in attacks exploiting recently disclosed critical vulnerability CVE-2023-20198. Researchers from LeakIX used the indicators of compromis ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2023
An international law enforcement operation shuts down the infrastructure of the Ragnar Locker ransomware operation. Law enforcement from the US, Europe, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Nethe ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2023
I’m proud to announce the release of the 11th edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2023
North Korea-linked threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability CVE-2023-42793 in JetBrains TeamCity. Microsoft warns that North Korea-linked threat actors are actively exploitin ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2023
Google TAG reported that both Russia and China-linked threat actors are weaponizing the a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) reported that in recent weeks ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2023
Hundreds of thousands of clients who opted-in for a screen warranty were exposed when DNA Micro leaked data from its systems. The Cybernews research team found that DNA Micro, a California-based I ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2023
Experts reported that the vulnerability CVE-2023-4966 in Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway devices has been exploited in attacks since late August. On October 10, Citrix published a security bulletin ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2023
A vulnerability in Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) could be exploited to decipher an administrator's password. Researchers from Claroty's Team82 discovered a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023- ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2023
Taiwanese manufacturer D-Link confirmed a data breach after a threat actor offered for sale on BreachForums stolen data. The global networking equipment and technology company D-Link confirmed a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2023
Threat actors exploited the recently disclosed zero-day flaw (CVE-2023-20198) in a large-scale hacking campaign on Cisco IOS XE devices. Threat actors have exploited the recently disclosed critica ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2023
Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has hacked eleven telecommunication service providers in Ukraine between May and September 2023. The Russia-linked APT group Sandworm (UAC-0165) has compromised el ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2023
What is the impact of ransomware on organizations? One employee's mistake can cost a company millions of dollars. Studies show that human error is the root cause of more than 80% of all cyber brea ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2023
Threat actors are targeting Israeli Android users with a malicious version of the 'RedAlert – Rocket Alerts' that hide spyware. A threat actor is targeting Israeli Android users with a spyware-l ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2023
Cisco warned customers of a critical zero-day vulnerability in its IOS XE Software that is actively exploited in attacks. Cisco warned customers of a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2023
Encrypted messaging app Signal denied claims of an alleged zero-day flaw in its platform after a responsible investigation. The popular encrypted messaging app Signal denied claims of an alleged z ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2023
Microsoft thwarted a large-scale hacking campaign carried out by Akira ransomware operators targeting an unknown industrial organization. Microsoft announced that its Microsoft Defender for Endpo ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2023
Researchers uncovered an ongoing campaign abusing popular messaging platforms Skype and Teams to distribute the DarkGate malware. From July to September, researchers from Trend Micro observed a ma ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2023
The Alphv ransomware group added the Morrison Community Hospital to its dark web leak site. Threat actors continue to target hospitals. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group claims to have hacked th ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2023
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October 15, 2023
The Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the technology services giant CDW and threatens to leak the stolen data. The technology services giant CDW announced it has launched an investiga ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2023
CISA warns organizations of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that are known to be exploited in ransomware operations. The US cybersecurity agency CISA is sharing knowledge about vulnerabiliti ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2023
A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin' Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. Cybersecurity company Check Point uncovered a malicious activity, tracked as ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2023
FBI and CISA published a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to disseminate IOCs, TTPs, and detection methods associated with AvosLocker ransomware. The joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) published ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2023
In September more than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised by the Balada Injector malware. Sucuri researchers reported that more than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised i ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2023
Ransomlooker monitors ransomware groups' extortion sites and delivers consolidated feeds of their claims worldwide. Cybernews presented Ransomlooker, a tool to monitor ransomware groups' extortio ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2023
This post analyzed the numerous phishing campaigns targeting users and organizations in Italy. Phishing is a ploy to trick users into revealing personal or financial information through an e-mail ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2023
Researchers observed a new Magecart web skimming campaign changing the websites' default 404 error page to steal credit cards. Researchers from the Akamai Security Intelligence Group unc ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2023
US CISA added the flaw CVE-2023-21608 in Adobe Acrobat Reader to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added five new fl ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2023
A Mirai-based DDoS botnet tracked as IZ1H9 has added thirteen new exploits to target routers from different vendors, including D-Link, Zyxel, and TP-Link. Fortinet researchers observed a new Mir ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2023
Airline Air Europa disclosed a data breach and warned customers to cancel their credit cards after threat actors accessed their card information. Air Europa is a Spanish airline and a subsidiary o ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2023
Gaza: Resecurity identified threat actors exploiting the conflict to weaponize psychological operations (PSYOPs) campaigns. Amidst the outbreak of war on the Gaza Strip last weekend, Resecurity (L ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2023
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for October 2023 fixed three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for October 2023 addressed a total of 10 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2023
A new DDoS technique named 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' is actively employed in attacks since August enabling record-breaking attacks. Researchers disclosed a new zero-day DDoS attack technique, named 'HT ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2023
Many poorly configured security cameras are exposed to hacktivists in Israel and Palestine, placing the owners using them and the people around them at substantial risk. After the Hamas attacks on ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2023
A vulnerability in the libcue library impacting GNOME Linux systems can be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on affected hosts. A threat actor can trigger a vulnerability, tracked a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2023
Both pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian hacktivists have joined the fight and are targeting SCADA and ICS systems. Both pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian hacktivists have joined the fight in the cyber ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2023
IBM observed a credential harvesting campaign that is targeting Citrix NetScaler gateways affected by the CVE-2023-3519 vulnerability. IBM's X-Force researchers reported that threat actors are con ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2023
A threat actor has leaked the source code for the first version of the HelloKitty ransomware on a Russian-speaking cybercrime forum. Cybersecurity researchers 3xp0rt reported that a threat actor ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2023
Microsoft linked a Gaza-based threat actor tracked as Storm-1133 to a series of attacks aimed at private organizations in Israel. The fourth annual Digital Defense Report published by Microsoft l ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2023
Flagstar Bank announced a data breach suffered by a third-party service provider exposed the personal information of over 800,000 US customers. Flagstar Bank is warning 837,390 US customers that t ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2023
Researchers warn that more than 70,000 Android smartphones, CTV boxes, and tablets were shipped with backdoored firmware as part of BADBOX network. Cybersecurity researchers at Human Security disc ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2023
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October 08, 2023
North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has laundered $900 million worth of cryptocurrency, Elliptic researchers reported. Researchers from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic reported that threat act ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2023
Threat actors behind the QakBot malware are still active, since August they are carrying out a phishing campaign delivering Ransom Knight ransomware and Remcos RAT. In August, the FBI announced th ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2023
Hospitality and entertainment company MGM Resorts announced that the costs of the recent ransomware attack costs exceeded $110 million. In September the hospitality and entertainment company MGM R ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2023
The creation of a dedicated emergency number for cybersecurity could provide an effective solution to this rapidly growing challenge The growing threat of cybercrime is calling for new and innovat ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2023
Researchers published PoC exploits for CVE-2023-4911 vulnerability (aka Looney Tunables) impacting most popular Linux distributions. The vulnerability CVE-2023-4911 (CVSS score 7.8) is a buffer ov ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2023
Cisco addressed a critical Static Credentials Vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20101, impacting Emergency Responder. Cisco released security updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2023
Belgian intelligence agency State Security Service (VSSE) fears that Chinese giant Alibaba is spying on logistics to gather financial intelligence. The Belgian intelligence service VSSE revealed t ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2023
The U.S. CISA added JetBrains TeamCity and Windows vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the JetBra ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2023
NATO is investigating claims that a group called SiegedSec has breached its systems and leaked a cache of unclassified documents online. NATO announced it is investigating claims that a politicall ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2023
Researcher discovered that global B2B CRM provider Really Simple Systems exposed online a non-password-protected database with million records. Cybersecurity Researcher, Jeremiah Fowler, discovere ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2023
Sony Interactive Entertainment has notified current and former employees and their family members about a data breach. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) has notified current and former employee ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2023
Apple released emergency security updates to address a new actively exploited zero-day vulnerability impacting iPhone and iPad devices. Apple released emergency security updates to address a new ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2023
Atlassian fixed a critical zero-day flaw in its Confluence Data Center and Server software, which has been exploited in the wild. Software giant Atlassian released emergency security updates to ad ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2023
International mobile virtual network operator Lyca Mobile announced it has been the victim of a cyber attack that disrupted its network. Lyca Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) tha ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2023
Chipmaker Qualcomm addressed 17 vulnerabilities in various components and warns of three other actively exploited zero-day flaws. Chipmaker Qualcomm released security updates to address 17 vulnera ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2023
The DRM Report Q2 2023 report provides a detailed insight into the ransomware threat landscape during the period between May and August 2023. In an era where digitalization has woven its web into ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2023
Threat actors exploited an open redirection vulnerability in the job search platform Indeed to carry out phishing attacks. Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Menlo Security reported that thre ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2023
A misconfiguration in the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) systems caused a leak of over 26K files, exposing clients’ parking permits and home addresses. The MTC is a governmental ag ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2023
Cybersecurity researchers spotted a new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) called BunnyLoader that's appeared in the threat landscape. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers discovered a new malware-as-a-servi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2023
Researchers have identified the exfiltration infrastructure of a LockBit affiliate while investigating a LockBit extortion incident that occurred in Q3 2023. Executive Summary We investigated ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2023
Researchers from cybersecurity firm TG Soft are warning Italian entities and companies of LockBit 3.0 Black and BlackCat/AlphV attacks. In the last few weeks, two cybercriminal groups th ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2023
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to a database of its users. Threat actors stole a database containing the list of users ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2023
Experts warn of threat actors actively exploiting CVE-2023-40044 flaw in recently disclosed flaw in Progress Software’s WS_FTP products. Progress Software recently warned customers to address a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2023
The National Logistics Portal (NLP), a newly launched platform to manage all port operations in India, left public access to sensitive data, posing the risk of a potential takeover by threat actors. ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2023
North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus impersonated Meta's recruiters in an attack against a Spanish company in the Aerospace industry. ESET researchers linked the North Korea-linked Lazarus AP ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2023
Experts warn that the recent attack on building automation giant Johnson Controls may have exposed data of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Johnson Controls International plc is a multin ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2023
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang added McLaren Health Care to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. McLaren Health Care is a not-for-profit healthcare system based in Michigan, United States ...
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2023
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October 01, 2023
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang added the hotel chain Motel One to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. Motel One is a German hotel chain that offers budget-friendly accommodations primari ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2023
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns of dual ransomware attacks aimed at the same victims. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of dual ransomware attacks, a n ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2023
Progress Software has addressed a critical severity vulnerability in its WS_FTP Server software used by thousands of IT teams worldwide. Progress Software warned customers to address a critical se ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2023
A child abuse site has been taken down following a request to German law enforcement by Cybernews research team. A hacker collective, who wanted to remain anonymous, has been relentlessly hunting ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2023
Experts warn of a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-42115, in all versions of Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software. A critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-421 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2023
China-linked threat actors stole around 60,000 emails from U.S. State Department after breaching Microsoft's Exchange email platform in May. China-linked hackers who breached Microsoft's email pl ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2023
The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) left open a data repository exposing nearly 50,000 files, some of which were highly sensitive, the Cybernews research team has discovered. On June ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2023
US CISA added the flaw CVE-2018-14667 in Red Hat JBoss RichFaces Framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2023
Cisco released security updates for an actively exploited zero-day flaw (CVE-2023-20109) that resides in the GET VPN feature of IOS and IOS XE software. Cisco warned customers to install security ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2023
Johnson Controls International suffered a ransomware attack that impacted the operations of the company and its subsidiaries. Johnson Controls International plc is a multinational conglomerate wit ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2023
Google released security updates to address a new actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5217, in the Chrome browser. Google on Wednesday released security updates to addre ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2023
A Russian zero-day broker is willing to pay $20 million for zero-day exploits for iPhones and Android mobile devices. The Russian zero-day broker firm Operation Zero is increasing payouts for top- ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2023
US and Japanese authorities warn that a China-linked APT BlackTech planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware to hack the businesses in both countries. US and Japanese intelligence, law enforcement ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2023
Google assigned a maximum score to a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-5129, in the libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format. Google assigned a new CVE identifier f ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2023
DarkBeam left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. The leaked logins present cybercriminals with almost limi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2023
Following the recently announced data leak from Sony, Ransomed.vc group claimed the hack of the Japanese giant NTT Docomo. Following the recently announced data leak from Sony, the notorious ranso ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2023
Data lineage is the visualization and tracking of data as it moves through various stages of its lifecycle. In an age where data drives decisions and fuels innovation, understanding the journey of ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2023
Sony launched an investigation into an alleged data breach after the RansomedVC group claimed the hack of the company. Sony announced it is investigating allegations of a data breach after the Ran ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2023
Researchers discovered that Canadian Flair Airlines left credentials to sensitive databases and email addresses open for at least seven months Canadian Flair Airlines left credentials to sensitive ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2023
This week the Rhysida ransomware group claimed the hack of the Kuwait Ministry of Finance and added it to its Tor leak site. Last week a ransomware attack hit the Government of Kuwait, the attack ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2023
The Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN), the Ontario birth registry disclosed a data breach affecting some 3.4 million people. The Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) is a prog ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2023
A new campaign is spreading Xenomorph malware to Android users in the United States, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Canada, and Belgium. Researchers from ThreatFabric uncovered a new campaign spreading ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2023
Resecurity research found that the 'Smishing Triad' cybercrime group has expanded its phishing campaign into the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Resecurity research recently found that 'Smishing Triad ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2023
Crooks stole $200 million from Mixin Network, a free, lightning fast and decentralized network for transferring digital assets. Mixin Network, the Hong Kong-based crypto firm behind a free, lightn ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2023
A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities using drone manuals as lures to deliver the post-exploitation toolkit Merlin. Securonix researchers recently uncovered a phishing campaign u ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2023
Experts warn of a critical vulnerability in the TeamCity CI/CD server that can be exploited to take over a vulnerable server. JetBrains TeamCity is a popular and highly extensible Continuous Integ ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2023
A stealthy APT group tracked as Gelsemium was observed targeting a Southeast Asian government between 2022 and 2023. Palo Alto Unit42 researchers an APT group tracked as Gelsemium targeting a Sout ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2023
A Nigerian national pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering through business email compromise (BEC). The Nigerian national Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo (29), who is residing in South Africa, ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2023
A new variant of a banking trojan, called BBTok, targets users of over 40 banks in Latin America, particularly Brazil and Mexico. Check Point researchers warn of a new variant of a banking trojan ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2023
Researchers discovered a previously undocumented sophisticated backdoor, named Deadglyph, used by the Stealth Falcon group for espionage in the Middle East ESET researchers discovered a very sophi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2023
The Alphv ransomware group claims to have hacked Clarion, the global manufacturer of audio and video equipment for cars and other vehicles. The Alphv ransomware group added Clarion, the global ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2023
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September 24, 2023
U.S. educational nonprofit organization National Student Clearinghouse disclosed a data breach that impacted approximately 900 US schools. The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) is a nonprofit o ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2023
The Government of Bermuda believes that the recent cyberattack against its IT infrastructure was launched by Russian threat actors. This week a cyber attack hit the Government of Bermuda causing t ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2023
Citizen Lab and Google's TAG revealed that the three recently patched Apple zero-days were used to install Cytrox Predator spyware. Researchers from the Citizen Lab and Google's Threat Analysis Gr ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2023
US CISA added the flaw CVE-2023-41179 in Trend Micro Apex and other security products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2023
Air Canada, the flag carrier and largest airline of Canada, announced that the personal information of some employees was exposed as a result of a recent cyberattack. Air Canada, the flag carrier ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2023
A previously undocumented APT dubbed Sandman targets telecommunication service providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and South Asia. A joint research conducted by SentinelLabs and QGroup G ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2023
Apple released emergency security updates to address three new actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. Apple released emergency security updates to address three new zero-day vulnerabilities ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2023
The recently discovered Free Download Manager (FDM) supply chain attack, which distributed Linux malware, started back in 2020. The maintainers of Free Download Manager (FDM) confirmed that the re ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2023
Exail Technologies, a high-tech manufacturer whose clients include the US Coast Guard, exposed sensitive company data that could’ve enabled attackers to access its databases. Exail, a French hig ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2023
Pro-Russia hacker group NoName is suspected to have launched a cyberattack that caused border checkpoint outages at several Canadian airports. A massive DDoS cyber attack, likely carried out by Pr ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2023
Researchers discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the Nagios XI network and IT infrastructure monitoring and management solution. Researchers discovered four vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-40931, CVE- ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2023
Finnish police announced the takedown of the dark web marketplace PIILOPUOTI which focuses on the sale of illegal narcotics. Finnish Customs announced the seizure of the dark web marketplace Piilo ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2023
A cyberattack hit the International Criminal Court (ICC) disclosed a cyberattack this week, its systems were compromised last week. The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that threat act ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2023
GitLab rolled out security patches to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5009, that can be exploited to run pipelines as another user. GitLab has released security patches to ad ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2023
Trend Micro addressed a zero-day code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-41179) in Apex One that has been actively exploited in the wild. Trend Micro has released security updates to patch an activ ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 20, 2023
ShroudedSnooper threat actors are targeting telecommunication service providers in the Middle East with a backdoor called HTTPSnoop. Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered a new stealthy impl ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2023
The cyber attack that hit the cleaning products manufacturer Clorox in August is still affecting the supply of the products to customers. The Clorox Company is a multinational consumer goods compa ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2023
China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca used a new Linux malware dubbed SprySOCKS in a recent cyber espionage campaign. Researchers from Trend Micro, while monitoring the activity of the China-linke ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2023
Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data via a public GitHub repository since July 2020. Cybersecurity firm Wiz discovered that the Microsoft AI research division accid ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2023
The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warns of state-sponsored attacks aimed at liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the country. Bruno Kahl, the President of the Bundesnachrich ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2023
Software development company Retool was the victim of a smishing attack that resulted in the compromise of 27 accounts of its cloud customers. Software development company Retool revealed that 27 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2023
Researchers from vx-underground reported that FBI hacker 'USDoD' leaked sensitive data from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion. TransUnion is an American consumer credit reporti ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2023
The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has stolen more than $240 million worth of cryptocurrency since June 2023, researchers warn. According to a report published by blockchain cyber security f ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2023
Researchers at healthcare technology firm Nuance blame the Clop gang for a series of cyber thefts at major North Carolina hospitals. The Microsoft-owned healthcare technology firm N ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2023
One of Thailand's major digital financial platforms, CardX, recently disclosed a data leak that affected their customers. According to the statement published on the CardX official website on Sep ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2023
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September 17, 2023
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined TikTok €345 million ($368 million) for violating the privacy of children. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined TikTok €345 million ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2023
The Russian national Dariy Pankov, aka dpxaker, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and computer fraud. The Russian national Dariy Pankov (28), aka dpxaker, is the author of the NLBrut ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2023
Leading Android health apps expose users to avoidable threats like surveillance and identity theft, due to their risky permissions. Cybernews has the story. The Android challenge In the digital ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2023
Caesars Entertainment announced it has paid a ransom to avoid the leak of customer data stolen in a recent intrusion. Caesars Entertainment is the world's most geographically diversified casino-en ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2023
Researchers discovered a free download manager site that has been compromised to serve Linux malware to users for more than three years. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a free download manag ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2023
LockBit ransomware group breached two hospitals, the Carthage Area Hospital and the Clayton-Hepburn Medical Center in New York. The Lockbit ransomware group claims to have hacked two major hospita ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2023
UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to some of its employees' personal information. UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced that threat actors ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2023
The iPhone of a prominent Russian journalist, who is at odds with Moscow, was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware. The iPhone of the Russian journalist Galina Timchenko was compromised with ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2023
Researchers discovered three security flaws in Kubernetes that can lead to remote code execution on Windows endpoints. Akamai researchers recently discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Kub ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2023
The multinational aerospace corporation Airbus has launched an investigation into the recent leak of information allegedly stolen from the company. The multinational aerospace corporation Airb ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2023
3AM is a new strain of ransomware that was spotted in a single incident in which the threat actors failed to deploy the LockBit ransomware in the target infrastructure. Symantec’s Threat Hunte ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2023
A threat actor tracked as Redfly had infected the systems at a national grid located in an unnamed Asian country for six months starting in January. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team discovered th ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2023
Mozilla addressed a critical zero-day vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird that has been actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Mozilla rolled out security updates to address a critical ze ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2023
Microsoft September 2023 Patch Tuesday addressed 59 new flaws, including two vulnerabilities under active attack. Microsoft September 2023 Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 59 vulnerabiliti ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2023
The international non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children International was recently hit with a cyberattack. The charity organization Save the Children International revealed that it ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2023
Software giant Adobe is warning of a critical security vulnerability in the PDF Acrobat and Reader that is actively exploited in the wild. Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates (APSB23-34) addresse ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2023
A critical vulnerability in GitHub could have exposed more than 4,000 code packages to Repojacking attack. Checkmarx researchers discovered a new vulnerability in GitHub could have exposed over 4, ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2023
Hospitality and entertainment company MGM Resorts was hit by a cyber attack that shut down its systems at MGM Hotels and Casinos. Hospitality and entertainment company MGM Resorts was the victim o ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2023
Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram after the company suspended the account of the group. The hacker collective Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) has launched a distributed deni ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2023
Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten used a previously undocumented backdoor named Sponsor in attacks against entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. ESET researchers observed a series of a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2023
Google rolled out emergency security updates to address a new Chrome zero-day (CVE-2023-4863) actively exploited in the wild. Google rolled out emergency security updates to address a zero-day vul ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2023
U.S. CISA adds vulnerabilities in Apple devices exploited to install NSO Group's Pegasus spyware on iPhones to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2023
The U.K. and U.S. governments sanctioned 11 more individuals who were alleged members of the Russia-based TrickBot cybercrime gang. The United States, in coordination with the United Kingdom, sanc ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2023
Zscaler ThreatLabz detailed a new malware loader, named HijackLoader, which has grown in popularity over the past few months HijackLoader is a loader that is gaining popularity among the cybercrim ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2023
CyberNews researchers discovered that many universities worldwide are leaking sensitive information and are even open to full takeover. Many universities worldwide, including some of the most pres ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2023
Evil Telegram: a Trojanized version of the Telegram app was spotted on the Google Play Store, Kaspersky researchers reported. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered several Telegram mods on the Goo ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2023
Rhysida Ransomware group added three more US hospitals to the list of victims on its Tor leak site after the PROSPECT MEDICAL attack. Recently the Rhysida ransomware group made the headlines becau ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2023
Akamai announced it has mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a U.S. financial company. Cybersecurity firm Akamai successfully identified and prevented a massive d ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2023
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly Securi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2023
US CISA added critical vulnerability CVE-2023-33246 in Apache RocketMQ to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2023
The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang added Israel's Mayanei Hayeshua hospital to the list of victims on its Tor leak site The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang claimed responsibility for an attack on Isr ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2023
North Korea-linked threat actors associated with North Korea exploited a zero-day flaw in attacks against cybersecurity experts. North Korea-linked threat actors were observed exploiting a zero-da ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2023
A zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-20269) in Cisco ASA and FTD is actively exploited in ransomware attacks, the company warns. Cisco warns that a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-20269) in Adapti ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2023
Citizen Lab reported that the actively exploited zero-days fixed by Apple are being used in Pegasus spyware attacks Researchers at Citizen Lab reported that the actively exploited zero-day flaws ( ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2023
Apple rolled out emergency security updates to address two new actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities impacting iPhones and Macs. The two Apple zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-4 ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2023
Researchers spotted a new malvertising campaign targeting Mac users with a new version of the macOS stealer Atomic Stealer. Malwarebytes researchers have observed a new malvertising campaign distr ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2023
A couple of security vulnerabilities in Apache SuperSet could be exploited by an attacker to gain remote code execution on vulnerable systems. Apache Superset is an open-source Data Visualizatio ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2023
Microsoft revealed that the Chinese group Storm-0558 stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump. In July, Microsoft announced it had mitigated an attack ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2023
Google released September 2023 Android security updates to address multiple flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day. Google released September 2023 Android security updates that address te ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2023
Experts warn of an Atlas VPN zero-day flaw impacting the Linux client that can reveal the user's IP address by visiting a website. A Reddit user with the handle 'Educational-Map-8145' published a ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2023
MITRE and CISA released a Caldera extension for OT that allows the emulation of attacks on operational technology systems. MITRE Caldera is an open-source adversary emulation platform that helps c ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2023
Three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in ASUS routers potentially allow attackers to hijack the network devices. ASUS routers RT-AX55, RT-AX56U_V2, and RT-AC86U are affected by thre ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2023
Crypto gambling site Stake suffered a security breach, and threat actors withdrew $41M of funds stolen including Tether and Ether. Researchers reported abnormally large withdrawals made from the c ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2023
The nonprofit organization Freecycle Network (Freecycle.org) confirmed that it has suffered a data breach that impacted more than 7 million users. The Freecycle Network (TFN,) is a private, nonpro ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2023
Meta disrupted two influence campaigns orchestrated by China and Russia, the company blocked thousands of accounts and pages. Meta announced it has taken down two of the largest known covert influ ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2023
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took the site of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) down. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took the site of the G ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2023
Resecurity has identified a large-scale smishing campaign, tracked as Smishing Triad, targeting the US Citizens. Earlier episodes have revealed victims from the U.K., Poland, Sweden, Italy, Indon ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2023
The University of Sydney (USYD) suffered a security breach caused by a third-party service provider that exposed personal information of recent applicants. The University of Sydney (USYD) announce ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2023
Cybercrime will cost Germany 206 billion euros ($224 billion) in 2023, German digital association Bitkom told Reuters. According to the German digital association Bitkom, cybercrime will have a wo ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2023
Researcher released PoC exploit code for a recent critical flaw (CVE-2023-34039) in VMware Aria Operations for Networks. At the end of August, VMware released security updates to address two vulne ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2023
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly Securi ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2023
The LockBit ransomware gang claims to have breached the Commission des services electriques de Montréal (CSEM). The LockBit ransomware group continues to be one of the most active extortion gangs ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2023
WannaCry and NotPetya, probably two most damaging cyberattacks in recent history, were both only made possible because of EternalBlue. Here is how the NSA-developed cyber monster works, and how you s ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2023
Researchers released a free decryptor for the Key Group ransomware that allows victims to recover their data without paying a ransom. Threat intelligence firm EclecticIQ released a free decryption ...
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2023
Fashion retailer Forever 21 disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 500,000 individuals. On March 20, 2023, the fashion retailer Forever 21 has discovered a cybe ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2023
Russia-linked threat actors have been targeting Android devices of the Ukrainian military with a new malware dubbed Infamous Chisel. GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre and international partn ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2023
Experts warn of ongoing credential stuffing and brute-force attacks targeting Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) SSL VPNs. Cisco is aware of attacks conducted by Akira ransomware threat actor ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2023
Multinational mass media conglomerate Paramount Global suffered a data breach after an unauthorized party accessed files from certain of its systems. Multinational mass media conglomerate Paramoun ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2023
The National Safety Council leaked thousands of emails and passwords of their members, including companies such as NASA and Tesla. The National Safety Council has leaked nearly 10,000 emails and p ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2023
Researchers demonstrated how attackers can abuse the Windows Container Isolation Framework to bypass endpoint security solutions. Researcher Daniel Avinoam at the recent DEF CON hacking conferen ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2023
VMware fixed two security flaws in Aria Operations for Networks that could be exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution. VMware has released security updates to address two ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2023
China-linked threat actors breached government organizations worldwide with attacks exploiting Barracuda ESG zero-day. In June, Mandiant researchers linked the threat actor UNC4841 to the attacks ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2023
Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) has been infiltrated for months. Threat actors have infiltrated Japan’s National Center of Incident Readines ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2023
A financially motivated actor linked to the FIN8 group exploits the CVE-2023-3519 RCE in attacks on Citrix NetScaler systems in massive attacks. Sophos X-Ops is tracking an ongoing campaign, which ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2023
Japan's JPCERT warns of a new recently detected 'MalDoc in PDF' attack that embeds malicious Word files into PDFs. Japan's computer emergency response team (JPCERT) has recently observed a new att ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2023
A security researcher demonstrated how to discover a target’s IP address by sending a link over the Skype mobile app. The security researcher Yossi discovered that is possible to discover a targ ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2023
Cisco addressed three high-severity flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software that could cause denial-of-service (DoS) conditions. Cisco this week addressed multiple flaws in its products, including three ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2023
The cloud and hosting provider Leaseweb suffered a security breach that impacted some "critical" systems of the company. Global hosting and cloud services provider Leaseweb has disabled some "crit ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2023
Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed a data breach resulting from a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees. Security consulting firm Kroll revealed that a SIM-swappin ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2023
China-linked APT group Flax Typhoon targeted dozens of organizations in Taiwan as part of a suspected espionage campaign. Microsoft linked the Chinese APT Flax Typhoon (aka Ethereal Panda) to a cy ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2023
Proof-of-concept exploit code for critical Ivanti Sentry authentication bypass flaw CVE-2023-38035 has been released. Researchers released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for critical Ivanti ...
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2023
Resecurity researchers identified a zero-day Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the Schneider Electric Accutech Manager product. Resecurity identified a zero-day vulnerability in the Schneider Elec ...
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2023
