Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2024
Resecurity identified bad actors offering a significant number of AnyDesk customer credentials for sale on the Dark Web. Such information being available for cybercriminals could act as a catalyst for new attacks, including targeted phishing campaigns. Having additional context about a particular customer, the probability of a successful compromise could increase significantly. For example, one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2024
A vulnerability impacting the decentralized social network Mastodon can be exploited by threat actors to impersonate and take over any account. A security flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-23832 (CVSS score 9.4), in the decentralized social network Mastodon can be exploited to impersonate and take over any account. The issue is caused by insufficient origin validation in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2024
Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) announced that it was targeted by a sophisticated cyberattack that affected some of its systems. A sophisticated cyberattack on Wednesday hit Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT). The institute confirmed that the attack affected some of its systems. Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) promptly activated emergency protocols to respond to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2024
Cloudflare revealed that a nation-state actor breached its internal Atlassian server, gaining access to the internal wiki and its bug database (Atlassian Jira). The incident took place on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2023, and Cloudflare immediately began an investigation with the help of CrowdStrike. The company pointed out that no customer data or systems were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2024
A US man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a fraudulent scheme that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars through SIM swapping. Daniel James Junk (22) of Portland was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that resulted in the theft of millions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2024
Mandiant spotted new malware used by a China-linked threat actor UNC5221 targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. Mandiant researchers discovered new malware employed by a China-linked APT group known as UNC5221 and other threat groups targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. The attackers were observed exploiting CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2024
Crooks stole around $112 million worth of Ripple XRP from the crypto wallet of Ripple’s co-founder Chris Larsen. This week, crooks stole around $112 million worth of the Ripple-focused cryptocurrency XRP from a crypto wallet belonging to the Ripple’s co-founder and executive chairman Chris Larsen. Larsen pointed out that the hackers compromised his personal XRP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2024
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple improper authentication bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an Apple improper authentication bug, tracked as CVE-2022-48618, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability can allow an attacker with arbitrary read and write capability to bypass Pointer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2024
Ivanti warns of two new vulnerabilities in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, one of which is actively exploited in the wild. Ivanti is warning of two new high-severity vulnerabilities in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure solutions respectively tracked as CVE-2024-21888Â (CVSS score: 8.8) and CVE-2024-21893Â (CVSS score: 8.2). The software company also warned that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2024
Hundreds of compromised credentials of customers of RIPE, APNIC, AFRINIC, and LACNIC are available on the dark web, Resecurity warns. Resecurity conducted a thorough scan of the Dark Web and identified over 1,572 compromised customers of RIPE, Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), and the Latin America and Caribbean Network […]
