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Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2022
Operation TOURNIQUET: Authorities shut down dark web marketplace RaidForums

The dark web marketplace RaidForums has been shut down and its infrastructure seized as a result of Operation TOURNIQUET. The illegal dark web marketplace RaidForums has been shut down and its infrastructure seized as a result of the international law enforcement Operation TOURNIQUET coordinated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre. Operation TOURNIQUET was conducted by law […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2022
Russia-linked Sandworm APT targets energy facilities in Ukraine with wipers

Russia-linked Sandworm APT group targeted energy facilities in Ukraine with INDUSTROYER2 and CADDYWIPER wipers. Russia-linked Sandworm threat actors targeted energy facilities in Ukraine with a new strain of the Industroyer ICS malware (INDUSTROYER2) and a new version of the CaddyWiper wiper. According to the CERT-UA, nation-state actors targeted high-voltage electrical substations with INDUSTROYER2, the variant analyzed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2022
NGINX project maintainers fix flaws in LDAP Reference Implementation

The maintainers of the NGINX web server project addressed a zero-day vulnerability in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Reference Implementation. The maintainers of the NGINX web server project have released security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability that resides in its Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Reference Implementation. The NGINX LDAP reference implementation uses […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2022
CISA adds WatchGuard flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The U.S. CISA added the CVE-2022-23176 flaw in WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE-2022-23176 flaw in WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022
Anonymous hacked Russia’s Ministry of Culture and leaked 446 GB

The Anonymous collective has hacked Russia’s Ministry of Culture and leaked 446 GB of data through the DDoSecrets platform. Data leak service DDoSecrets has published over 700 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian government, including over 500,000 emails. The dump includes three datasets, the largest one is related to the Ministry of Culture […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022
FFDroider, a new information-stealing malware disguised as Telegram app

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a new Windows information-stealing malware, named FFDroider, designed to steal credentials and cookies. Cybersecurity researchers from Zscaler ThreatLabz warn of a new information-stealing malware, named FFDroider, that disguises itself as the popular instant messaging app Telegram. The malware was derived to siphon credentials and cookies from infected machines. “Recently, ThreatLabz identified a novel windows […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022
SuperCare Health discloses a data breach that Impacted +300K people

SuperCare Health, a leading respiratory care provider in the Western U.S, disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 300,000 individuals. SuperCare Health disclosed a security breach that has led to the exposure of personal information belonging to its patients, patients/members of its partner organizations and others. The company notified impacted individuals and law enforcement […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022
Microsoft’s Autopatch feature improves the patch management process

Microsoft announced a feature called Autopatch that will allow organizations to keep their systems up-to-date starting with Windows Enterprise E3 (July 2022). Microsoft recently announced the implementation of a new feature called Autopatch starting with Windows Enterprise E3 in July 2022 that aims at keeping their systems up-to-date. The move aims at improving the patch management process in enterprises […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022
Dependency Review GitHub Action prevents adding known flaws in the code

Dependency Review GitHub Action scans users’ pull requests for dependency changes and will raise an error if any new dependencies have existing flaws. GitHub announced Dependency Review GitHub Action which scans users’ pull requests for dependency changes and will raise an error if any new dependencies have existing flaws that can be exploited in supply […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2022
Apr 03 – Apr 09 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine that occurred in the previous weeks: April 8 – Anonymous and the IT ARMY of Ukraine continue to target Russian entities […]