Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2021
The FBI and Australian Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warn of an ongoing Avaddon ransomware campaign targeting organizations worldwide. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) are warning of an ongoing Avaddon ransomware campaign targeting organizations worldwide in multiple industries, including government, finance, energy, manufacturing, and healthcare. The alert published […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2021
The U.S. FBI confirmed that the attack against the Colonial Pipeline over the weekend was launched by the Darkside ransomware gang. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that the Colonial Pipeline was shut down due to a cyber attack carried out by the Darkside ransomware gang. “The FBI confirms that the Darkside ransomware is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2021
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that impacted its governmentâs network and shut down its websites. One of the biggest cities in the US by population size, the City of Tulsa, was victim of a ransomware attack that affected its governmentâs network and forced the shutdown […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2021
Since early 2020, bad actors have added Tor exit nodes to the Tor network to intercep traffic to cryptocurrency-related sites Starting from January 2020, a threat actor has been adding thousands of malicious exit relays to the Tor network to intercept traffic and carry out SSL stripping attacks on users while accessing mixing websites, The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2021
WhatsApp will not deactivate the accounts of users who don’t accept the new privacy policy update that requires sharing data with other companies owned by Facebook. WhatsApp on Friday announced that it will not deactivate accounts of users who don’t accept its new privacy policy that will be rolled out on May 15. The company will only […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2021
U.S. CISA has published an analysis of the FiveHands ransomware, the same malware that was analyzed a few days ago by researchers from FireEyeâs Mandiant experts. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an analysis of the FiveHands ransomware that was recently detailed by FireEyeâs Mandiant. At the end of April, researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2021
âSpam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalkâ anti-spam WordPress plugin could expose user sensitive data to an unauthenticated attacker. A Time-Based Blind SQL Injection in âSpam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall by CleanTalkâ WordPress plugin, tracked as CVE-2021-24295, could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to access user data. The flaw could be exploited by an attack to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2021
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Cloud hosting provider Swiss Cloud suffered a ransomware attack Hacking a Tesla Model X with a DJI Mavic 2 drone equipped with a WIFI dongle WeSteal, a shameless commodity cryptocurrency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2021
A flaw in some DNS resolvers, tracked as TsuNAME, can allow attackers to launch DDoS attacks against authoritative DNS servers. Researchers at SIDN Labs (the R&D team of the registry for .nl domains), InternetNZ (the registry for .nz domains), and the Information Science Institute at the University of Southern California has discovered a vulnerability, named […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2021
A cyberattack forced the shutdown of one of the largest pipelines in the United States, the Colonial Pipeline facility in Pelham, Alabama. The Colonial Pipeline facility in Pelham, Alabama was hit by a cybersecurity attack, its operators were forced to shut down its systems. The pipeline allows carrying 2.5 million barrels of refined gasoline and […]
