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Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2020

US DoJ charges Iranian hackers for attacks on US satellite companies

The US Department of Justice announced the indictment of three Iranian hackers for hacking US aerospace and satellite companies. Three Iranian hackers residing in Iran have been indicted for stealing data from aerospace and satellite tracking companies. The hackers were employed in a coordinated campaign of identity theft and hacking on behalf of Iran’s Islamic […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2020

CISA Named Top-Level Root CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been named a Top-Level Root CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has been named a Top-Level Root CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), it will be overseeing CNAs in assigning CVE identifiers for vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) and medical devices. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2020

Maze ransomware uses Ragnar Locker virtual machine technique

The Maze ransomware operators now use a virtual machine to encrypt a computer, a tactic previously adopted by the Ragnar Locker malware. The Maze ransomware operators have adopted a new tactic to evade detection, their malware now encrypts a computer from within a virtual machine. This technique was first adopted by Ragnar Locker gang in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2020

Drupal addressed XSS and information disclosure flaws

Drupal maintainers addressed several information disclosure and cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the popular content management system (CMS). Drupal maintainers addressed several information disclosure and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the popular content management system (CMS). The most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2020-13668, is a critical reflected XSS issue affecting Drupal 8 and 9. Let’s remind that Drupal uses […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2020

Major Duesseldorf hospital infected with ransomware, patient died for consequences

A major hospital in Duesseldorf was hit by a cyber attack, a woman who needed urgent admission died after she had to be hijacked to another city. The news is shocking, German authorities revealed that a cyber attack hit a major hospital in Duesseldorf, the Duesseldorf University Clinic, and a woman who needed urgent admission […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2020

SunCrypt ransomware operators leak data of University Hospital New Jersey

University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) has suffered a ransomware attack, SunCrypt ransomware operators also leaked the data they have stolen. Systems at the University Hospital New Jersey (UHNJ) were encrypted with the SunCrypt ransomware, threat actors also stolen documents from the institution and leaked it online. The incident took place in September. The UHNJ is […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2020

APT41 actors charged for attacks on more than 100 victims globally

US Department of Justice announced indictments against 5 Chinese nationals alleged members of a state-sponsored hacking group known as APT41. The United States Department of Justice this week announced indictments against five Chinese nationals believed to be members of the cyber-espionage group known as APT41 (Winnti, Barium, Wicked Panda and Wicked Spider). US authorities are […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2020

Source code of Cerberus banking Trojan leaked on underground forums

The source code of the infamous Cerberus banking Trojan has been released for free on underground hacking forums following a failed auction. The author of the Cerberus banking Trojan has released the source code of the malware on underground hacking forums following a failed auction. In July, the authors of the notorious Cerberus Android banking trojan auctioned […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2020

US CISA report shares details on web shells used by Iranian hackers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a malware analysis report (MAR) that includes technical details about web shells employed by Iranian hackers. A web shell is a code, often written in typical web development programming languages (e.g., ASP, PHP, JSP), that attackers implant on web servers to gain remote access and code […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2020

New MrbMiner malware infected thousands of MSSQL DBs

A threat actor is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers in the attempt to access them to install a new crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. A group of hackers is launching brute-force attacks on MSSQL servers with the intent to compromise them and install crypto-mining malware dubbed MrbMiner. According to security firm Tencent, the team of […]

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