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Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2022
Hamas-linked threat actors target high-profile Israeli individuals

Hamas-linked threat actors conducted an elaborate campaign aimed at high-profile Israeli individuals employed in sensitive sectors. Researchers from Cybereason observed a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign conducted by APT-C-23 group campaigns targeting Israeli high-profile targets working for sensitive defense, law enforcement, and emergency services organizations. The threat actors use sophisticated social engineering techniques to infect Windows and Android […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2022
Colibri Loader employs clever persistence mechanism

Recently discovered malware loader Colibri leverages a trivial and efficient persistence mechanism to deploy Windows Vidar data stealer. Malwarebytes researchers observed a new loader, dubbed Colibri, which has been used to deploy a Windows information stealer tracked as Vidar in a recent campaign. The Colibri Loader first appeared in the threat landscape in August 2021 […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2022
CVE-2022-22292 flaw could allow hacking of Samsung Android devices

Experts discovered a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22292, which can be exploited to compromise Android 9, 10, 11, and 12 devices. Researchers from mobile cybersecurity firm Kryptowire discovered a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22292, in Android 9, 10, 11, and 12 devices. The vulnerability resides in the pre-installed Phone app that executes with system privileges on Samsung […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2022
CVE-2022-0778 OpenSSL flaw affects multiple Palo Alto devices

Palo Alto Networks plans to fix CVE-2022-0778 OpenSSL flaw in some of its firewall, VPN, and XDR, products during April 2022. In Mid March, OpenSSL released updates to address a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0778, that affects the BN_mod_sqrt() function used when certificate parsing. The flaw was discovered by the popular Google Project Zero […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2022
VMware addressed several critical vulnerabilities in multiple products

VMware fixed critical vulnerabilities in multiple products that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. VMware has addressed critical remote code vulnerabilities in multiple products, including VMware’s Workspace ONE Access, VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), vRealize Lifecycle Manager, vRealize Automation, and VMware Cloud Foundation products.  The virtualization giant urges its customers to address […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2022
US dismantled the Russia-linked Cyclops Blink botnet

The U.S. government announced the disruption of the Cyclops Blink botnet operated by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. The U.S. government announced that it had dismantled the Cyclops Blink botnet operated by the Russia-linked Sandworm APT group. “The Justice Department today announced a court-authorized operation, conducted in March 2022, to disrupt a two-tiered global botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2022
Ukraine warns of attacks aimed at taking over Telegram accounts

Ukraine’s technical security and intelligence service warns of threat actors targeting aimed at gaining access to users’ Telegram accounts. State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection (SSSCIP) of Ukraine spotted a new wave of cyber attacks aimed at gaining access to users’ Telegram accounts. The Ukrainian CERT attributes the hacking campaign to threat actors […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2022
Block discloses data breach involving Cash App potentially impacting 8.2 million US customers

Block disclosed a data breach related to the Cash App investing app and is notifying 8.2 million current and former US customers. The data breach involved a former employee that downloaded some unspecified reports of its Cash App Investing app that contained some U.S. customer information. Cash App is an app that allows users to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2022
U.S. Treasury Department sanctions darkweb marketplace Hydra Market

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned the Hydra Market, the world’s largest and longest-running dark web marketplace. The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned the darkweb marketplace Hydra Market, the same day Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), announced they have shut down the illegal platform. The seizure of the Hydra Market is the result of an international […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2022
A cyber attack forced the wind turbine manufacturer Nordex Group to shut down some of IT systems

Nordex Group, one of the largest manufacturers of wind turbines, was hit by a cyberattack that forced the company to shut down part of its infrastructure.  Nordex Group, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of wind turbines, was the victim of a cyberattack that forced the company to take down multiple systems. The attack was […]