Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2021
SITA, a multinational IT company that provides services to the air transport industry was the victim of cyberattack that impacted multiple airlines. SITA is a multinational information technology company providing IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry. The company provides its services to around 400 members and 2,800 customers worldwide, which it claims is about 90% of the world’s airline business. Around the world, nearly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2021
Microsoft experts continue to investigate the SolarWinds attack and spotted 3 new strains of malware used as second-stage payloads. Microsoft announced the discovery of three new pieces of malware that the threat actors behind the SolarWinds attack, tracked by the IT giant as Nobelium, used as second-stage payloads. Microsoft’s initial investigation revealed the existence of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2021
US managed service provider CompuCom was the victim of a cyberattack that partially disrupted its operations, experts believe it was a ransomware attack. US managed service provider CompuCom was the victim of a cyberattack that partially disrupted its services and some of its operations. Even if the company initially did not provide technical details about […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2021
Experts found five vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2021-26708, that could lead to local privilege escalation. Positive Technologies researcher Alexander Popov found five high severity vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that could lead to local privilege escalation. The Linux kernel vulnerabilities are race conditions that reside in AF_VSOCK implementation, they were implicitly introduced in November […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2021
FireEye researchers spotted a new sophisticated second-stage backdoor that was likely linked to threat actors behind the SolarWinds hack. Malware researchers at FireEye discovered a new sophisticated second-stage backdoor, dubbed Sunshuttle, while analyzing the servers of an organization that was compromised as a result of the SolarWinds supply-chain attack. The new malware is dubbed Sunshuttle, and it was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2021
VMware released a security patch for a remote code execution vulnerability that affects the VMware View Planner product. VMware released a security patch for a remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-21978, that affects the VMware View Planner. The View Planner is a free tool for Performance Sizing and Benchmarking of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure environments. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2021
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an emergency directive related to recently fixed Microsoft Exchange zero-days. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued the Emergency Directive 21-02 in response to the disclosure of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. This week Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2021
Group-IB published a report titled âRansomware Uncovered 2020-2021â. analyzes ransomware landscape in 2020 and TTPs of major threat actors. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, has presented its new report âRansomware Uncovered 2020-2021â. The research dives deep into the global ransomware outbreak in 2020 and analyzes major playersâ TTPs (tactics, techniques, and procedures). By […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2021
Now maintainers at the GRUB project have released security updates to address more than 100 vulnerabilities. GRUB2 (the GRand Unified Bootloader version 2) is a replacement for the original GRUB Legacy boot loader, which is now referred to as âGRUB Legacyâ. The mechanism is designed to protect the boot process from attacks. In July 2020, researchers at the cybersecurity firmware Eclypsium disclosed a buffer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2021
Cybersecurity firm Qualys seems to have suffered a data breach, threat actors allegedly exploited zero-day flaw in their Accellion FTA server. Cybersecurity firm Qualys is the latest victim of a cyber attack, the company was likely hacked by threat actors that exploited a zero-day vulnerability in their Accellion FTA server. A couple of weeks ago, security experts […]
