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Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. LockBit leaks data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service Italy’s Data Protection Authority […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2023
Leaked documents from Russian firm NTC Vulkan show Sandworm cyberwarfare arsenal

Files leaked by Russian IT contractor NTC Vulkan show that Russia-linked Sandworm APT requested it to develop offensive tools. Documents leaked from Russian IT contractor NTC Vulkan show it was likely involved in the development of offensive tools. The documents demonstrate that it also developed hacking tools for the Russia-linked APT group Sandworm. The Sandworm group […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2023
LockBit leaks data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service

The LockBit ransomware gang announced the publishing of data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service. On March 29, 2023, The Lock Bit ransomware gang announced the hack of the South Korean National Tax Service. The group added the South Korean agency to its Tor leak site and announced the release of stolen data […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2023
Italy’s Data Protection Authority temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns

Italy’s data protection agency is temporarily blocking the popular chatbot ChatGPT due to a possible violation of the European data privacy regulation. The Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante Privacy, has temporarily banned ChatGPT due to the illegal collection of personal data and the absence of systems for verifying the age of minors. The Authority pointed out that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2023
CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

CISA has added nine flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, including bugs exploited by commercial spyware on mobile devices. U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added nine new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Five of the issues added by CISA to its catalog are part of the exploits used by surveillance […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2023
Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin

Threat actors are actively exploiting a high-severity flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin used by more than eleven million websites WordPress security firm PatchStack warns of a high-severity vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that is currently being exploited by threat actors in the wild. Elementor Pro is a paid plugin that is currently installed on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2023
Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested members of a gang that defrauded EU citizens of $4.33M

The Cyber Police of Ukraine, with law enforcement officials from Czechia, has arrested several members of a gang responsible for $4.33 million scam. The Cyber Police of Ukraine, with the support of law enforcement officials from the Czech Republic, has arrested several members of a cybercriminal ring that defrauded EU citizens of $4.33 million with […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2023
Russian APT group Winter Vivern targets email portals of NATO and diplomats

Russian hacking group Winter Vivern has been actively exploiting Zimbra flaws to steal the emails of NATO and diplomats. A Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-27926) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. The CVE-2022-27926 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2023
Super FabriXss vulnerability in Microsoft Azure SFX could lead to RCE

Researchers shared details about a flaw, dubbed Super FabriXss, in Azure Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. Researchers from Orca Security shared details about a new vulnerability, dubbed Super FabriXss (CVE-2023-23383 – CVSS score: 8.2), in Azure. The experts demonstrated how to escalate a reflected XSS vulnerability in Azure Service […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2023
New AlienFox toolkit harvests credentials for tens of cloud services

AlienFox is a novel comprehensive toolset for harvesting credentials for multiple cloud service providers, SentinelLabs reported. AlienFox is a new modular toolkit that allows threat actors to harvest credentials for multiple cloud service providers. AlienFox is available for sale and is primarily distributed on Telegram in the form of source code archives. Some modules are […]