Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
A China-linked APT group tracked as Antlion used a custom backdoor called xPack that was undetected for months. A China-linked APT group tracked as Antlion is using a custom backdoor called xPack in attacks aimed at financial organizations and manufacturing companies, Symantec researchers reported. The backdoor was undetected for at least 18 months in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
A cyber attack hit the oil terminals of some of the biggest European ports impacting their operations. Some of the major oil terminals in Western Europe’s biggest ports have been targeted with a cyberattack. Threat actors have hit multiple oil facilities in Belgium’s ports, including Antwerp, which is the second biggest port in Europe after […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
Threat actors have stolen $325Â million in cryptocurrency leveraging a bug in the Wormhole communication bridge. Wormhole, one of the most popular bridges that links the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, lost about $325 million in an attack that took place on Wednesday. This is the second-biggest hack of a DeFi platform ever, just after the $600 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
Trend Micro recently addressed two high-severity flaws affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. Trend Micro released security updates to fix two high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-23119 and CVE-2022-23120, affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. The vulnerabilities affect Deep Security and Cloud One workload security solutions. The flaws were reported by the cybersecurity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2022
Security researcher discovered an Information Disclosure vulnerability in Brave browser and reported it through the HackerOne platform. Security researcher Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani discovered an Information Disclosure vulnerability in the Brave Browser and reported it to the company through the HackerOne platform. The researcher discovered that when the browser is used with Tor it could leak […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2022
Cyber security team at retail giant Walmart dissected a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which implements a ransomware-as-a-service model. The cyber threat team at retail giant Walmart has analyzed a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which is offered through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. Unlike other ransomware operations, Sugar ransomware appears to primarily focus on individual […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2022
Antivirus firm ESET addressed a local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked CVE-2021-37852, impacting its Windows clients. Antivirus firm ESET released security patches to address a high severity local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked CVE-2021-37852, impacting its Windows clients. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to misuse the AMSI scanning feature to elevate privileges in specific scenarios. “According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2022
The Cybereason Nocturnus Team reported a spike in the activity of the Iran-linked APT group APT35 (aka Phosphorus or Charming Kitten). The Cybereason Nocturnus Team observed a spike in the activity of the Iran-linked APT group APT35 (aka âCharming Kittenâ, âPhosphorusâ, Newscaster, and Ajax Security Team) The Phosphorus group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2022
Researchers discovered tens of vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware code used by the major device manufacturers. Researchers at firmware security company Binarly have discovered 23 vulnerabilities in UEFI firmware code used by the major device makers. The vulnerabilities could impact millions of enterprise devices, including laptops, servers, routers, and industrial control systems (ICS). All these vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2022
A massive social engineering campaign targeting banks has been delivered in the last two years in several countries. A massive social engineering campaign has been delivered in the last two years in several countries, including Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Chile, the UK, and France. According to Segurança InformĂĄtica publication, the malicious waves have impacted banking […]
