Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2023
A cyberespionage campaign, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, targeted high-profile government and telecom entities in Asia. Cybersecurity company Check Point uncovered a malicious activity, tracked as Stayin’ Alive, that is targeting high-profile government and telecom entities in Asian countries, including Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan. The campaign has been active since at least 2021, threat actors employed downloaders […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2023
In September more than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised by the Balada Injector malware. Sucuri researchers reported that more than 17,000 WordPress websites have been compromised in September with the Balada Injector. The researchers noticed that the number of Balada Injector infections has doubled compared with August. The Balada injector is a malware family that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2023
This post analyzed the numerous phishing campaigns targeting users and organizations in Italy. Phishing is a ploy to trick users into revealing personal or financial information through an e-mail, Web site, and even through instant messaging. Particularly very popular is so-called brand phishing, which occurs when criminals impersonate the official website of a well-known brand […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2023
Researchers observed a new Magecart web skimming campaign changing the websites’ default 404 error page to steal credit cards. Researchers from the Akamai Security Intelligence Group uncovered a Magecart web skimming campaign that is manipulating the website’s default 404 error page to hide malicious code. The attacks are targeting a large number of Magento and WooCommerce websites, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2023
US CISA added the flaw CVE-2023-21608 in Adobe Acrobat Reader to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added five new flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including a high-severity flaw (CVE-2023-21608) (CVSS score: 7.8) in Adobe Acrobat Reader. The flaw is a use-after-free issue, an attacker can trigger the flaw to achieve […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2023
Airline Air Europa disclosed a data breach and warned customers to cancel their credit cards after threat actors accessed their card information. Air Europa is a Spanish airline and a subsidiary of the Globalia Corporation. It operates as a full-service carrier, providing passenger and cargo services to various destinations, both domestic and international. Air Europa […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2023
Gaza: Resecurity identified threat actors exploiting the conflict to weaponize psychological operations (PSYOPs) campaigns. Amidst the outbreak of war on the Gaza Strip last weekend, Resecurity (Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 100) has identified multiple cyber-threat actors staging online psychological operations (PSYOPs) campaigns to manipulate public opinion regarding the escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict. PSYOPs are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2023
A new DDoS technique named ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ is actively employed in attacks since August enabling record-breaking attacks. Researchers disclosed a new zero-day DDoS attack technique, named ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’, that was exploited since August in record-breaking attacks. Google announced to have observed a new series of massive DDoS attacks that reached a peak of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2023
Many poorly configured security cameras are exposed to hacktivists in Israel and Palestine, placing the owners using them and the people around them at substantial risk. After the Hamas attacks on Israel, the cyber war has also started between both sides and their supporters. Hacktivists have already targeted SCADA and ICS systems in Israel and Palestine, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2023
A vulnerability in the libcue library impacting GNOME Linux systems can be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on affected hosts. A threat actor can trigger a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-43641 (CVSS score: 8.8), in the libcue library impacting GNOME Linux systems to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on affected hosts. libcue provides an […]
