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Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2024
Two Sudanese nationals indicted for operating the Anonymous Sudan group

The DoJ charged Anonymous Sudan members and disrupted their DDoS infrastructure, halting its cyber operations. The US Justice Department charged two Sudanese brothers (Ahmed Salah Yousif Omer, 22, and Alaa Salah Yusuuf Omer, 27) with operating and controlling the cybercrime collective Anonymous Sudan that launched tens of thousands of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2024
Russia-linked RomCom group targeted Ukrainian government agencies since late 2023

Russia-linked threat actor RomCom targeted Ukrainian government agencies and Polish entities in cyber attacks since late 2023. Cisco Talos researchers observed Russia-linked threat actor RomCom (aka UAT-5647, Storm-0978, Tropical Scorpius, UAC-0180, UNC2596) targeting Ukrainian government agencies and Polish entities in a new wave of attacks since at least late 2023.  In the recent attacks, RomCom […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2024
A critical flaw in Kubernetes Image Builder could allow attackers to gain root access

A critical flaw in Kubernetes Image Builder could allow attackers to gain root access if exploited under specific conditions. A critical, Kubernetes Image Builder vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9486 (CVSS score: 9.8), could allow attackers to gain root access if exploited under specific conditions. Only Kubernetes clusters with nodes using VM images from the Image Builder project and […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2024
VMware fixes high-severity SQL injection flaw CVE-2024-38814 in HCX

VMware fixes a high-severity SQL injection flaw in HCX allowing non-admin users to remotely execute code on the HCX manager. VMWare warns to address a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38814 (CVSS score of 8.8), in its HCX application mobility platform. The vulnerability is an authenticated SQL injection vulnerability in HCX, it was privately […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2024
Brazil’s PolĂ­cia Federal arrested the notorious hacker USDoD

Brazil’s PolĂ­cia Federal has arrested hacker USDoD, the hacker behind the National Public Data and InfraGard breaches. Brazil’s PolĂ­cia Federal (PF) announced the arrest in Belo Horizonte/MG of the notorious hacker USDoD. In August, a CrowdStrike investigation revealed that the hacker USDoD (aka EquationCorp), who is known for high-profile data leaks, is a man from Brazil. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2024
Finnish Customs dismantled the dark web drugs market Sipulitie

Finnish Customs shut down the Tor darknet marketplace Sipulitie and seized the servers hosting the platform. Finnish Customs, with the help of Europol, Swedish and Polish law enforcement authorities and researchers at Bitdefender, shut down the Tor marketplace Sipulitie. “Finnish customs has closed the web servers of the Sipulitie marketplace, which has been operating on […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2024
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows Kernel, Mozilla Firefox and SolarWinds Web Help Desk bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Windows Kernel, Mozilla Firefox and SolarWinds Web Help Desk bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: An attacker could exploit the vulnerability CVE-2024-30088 to gain SYSTEM privileges. Successful exploitation of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2024
GitHub addressed a critical vulnerability in Enterprise Server

GitHub addressed a critical vulnerability in Enterprise Server that could allow unauthorized access to affected instances. Code hosting platform GitHub addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9487 (CVSS score of 9.5), in GitHub Enterprise Server that could lead to unauthorized access to affected instances. An attacker could exploit a cryptographic signature verification flaw in GitHub Enterprise Server […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2024
A new Linux variant of FASTCash malware targets financial systems

North Korea-linked actors deploy a new Linux variant of FASTCash malware to target financial systems, researcher HaxRob revealed. The cybersecurity researcher HaxRob analyzed a new variant of the FASTCash “payment switch” malware which targets Linux systems. The variant discovered by the researcher was previously unknown and targets Ubuntu 22.04 LTS distributions. In November 2018, Symantec […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2024
Pokemon dev Game Freak discloses data breach

Pokemon dev Game Freak confirmed that an August cyberattack led to source code leaks and designs for unpublished games online. Game Freak Inc. is a popular Japanese video game developer, founded on April 26, 1989, by Satoshi Tajiri, Ken Sugimori, and Junichi Masuda. It is primarily known as the main developer of the PokĂ©mon video game series. The […]