Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2023
Threat actors exploited a zero-day flaw in third-party software in attacks against the ICT platform used by 12 Norwegian ministries. The ICT platform used by twelve ministries of the Norwegian government was hacked, and threat actors have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in an unnamed third-party software. Local authorities launched an investigation into the attack that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2023
A new flaw in OpenSSH could be potentially exploited to run arbitrary commands remotely on compromised hosts under specific conditions. Researchers from the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) have discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent. OpenSSH (Open Secure Shell) is a set of open-source tools and utilities that provide secure encrypted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2023
Checkmark researchers have uncovered the first known targeted OSS supply chain attacks against the banking sector. In the first half of 2023, Checkmarx researchers detected multiple open-source software supply chain attacks aimed at the banking sector. These attacks targeted specific components in web assets used by banks, according to the experts the attackers used advanced techniques. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2023
Researchers reported that more than 15000 Citrix servers exposed online are likely vulnerable to attacks exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2023-3519. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week warned of cyber attacks against Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway devices exploiting recently discovered zero-day CVE-2023-3519. The Agency states that threat actors targeted a NetScaler […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2023
SentinelOne researchers attribute the recent supply chain attacks on JumpCloud to North Korea-linked threat actors. JumpCloud is a cloud-based directory service platform designed to manage user identities, devices, and applications in a seamless and secure manner. It allows IT administrators to centralize and simplify their identity and access management tasks across various systems and applications. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2023
China-linked group APT41 was spotted using two previously undocumented Android spyware called WyrmSpy and DragonEgg China-linked APT group APT41 has been observed using two previously undocumented Android spyware called WyrmSpy and DragonEgg. The APT41 group, aka Winnti, Axiom, Barium, Blackfly, HOODOO) is a China-linked cyberespionage group that has been active since at least 2007. Researchers at cybersecurity firm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2023
The American cosmetics giant company Estée Lauder was hacked by two distinct ransomware groups, the ALPHV/BlackCat and Clop gangs. Yesterday the cybersecurity expert @sonoclaudio first alerted me about a strange circumstance, two ransomware actors, ALPHV/BlackCat and Clop, claim to have hacked the cosmetics giant company Estée Lauder and added the company to their Tor leak […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2023
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new peer-to-peer (P2P) worm called P2PInfect that targets Redis servers. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have discovered a new peer-to-peer (P2P) worm called P2PInfect that targets Redis servers running on both Linux and Windows systems. The capability to target Redis servers running on both Linux and Windows operating systems makes P2PInfect more scalable and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2023
Adobe released an emergency update to address critical vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, including an actively exploited zero-day. Adobe released an out-of-band update to address critical and moderate vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, including a zero-day flaw that is actively exploited in attacks. The vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution and security feature bypass. The impacted ColdFusion versions are 2023, 2021 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2023
The Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled a massive bot farm and seized 150,000 SIM cards. A gang of more than 100 individuals used fake social network accounts to conduct disinformation and psychological operations in support of the Russian government and its narrative on the invasion of Ukraine. The gang used […]
