Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2023
Attackers use dynamic code loading to bypass Google Play store’s malware detections

Threat actors rely on the ‘versioning’ technique to evade malware detections of malicious code uploaded to the Google Play Store. Google Cybersecurity Action Team (GCAT) revealed that threat actors are using a technique called versioning to evade malware detection implemented to detect malicious code uploaded to the Google Play Store. The technique is not new […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2023
Decommissioned medical infusion pumps sold on secondary market could reveal Wi-Fi configuration settings

Experts warn that decommissioned medical infusion pumps sold via the secondary market could expose Wi-Fi configuration settings. The sale of decommissioned medical infusion pumps through the secondary market may lead to the potential exposure of Wi-Fi configuration settings. The researchers discovered that most of the medical infusion pumps that were purchased from secondary market services […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2023
Russian APT29 conducts phishing attacks through Microsoft Teams

Russia-linked APT29 group targeted dozens of organizations and government agencies worldwide with Microsoft Teams phishing attacks. Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported that Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT29  (aka SVR group, Cozy Bear, Nobelium, Midnight Blizzard, and The Dukes) carried out Microsoft Teams phishing attacks aimed at dozens of organizations and government agencies worldwide. APT29 along with APT28 cyber espionage group was involved in […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2023
Hackers already installed web shells on 581 Citrix servers in CVE-2023-3519 attacks

Researchers warn that hundreds of Citrix servers have been hacked in an ongoing campaign exploiting the RCE CVE-2023-3519. Security researchers from the non-profit organization Shadowserver Foundation reported that hundreds of Citrix Netscaler ADC and Gateway servers have already been compromised as part of an ongoing campaign exploiting the critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability CVE-2023-3519. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2023
Zero-day in Salesforce email services exploited in targeted Facebook phishing campaign

Experts spotted a spear-phishing Facebook campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce email services. Researchers from Guardio Labs uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Salesforce email services and SMTP servers. The phishing campaigns are able to evade conventional detection methods by chaining the Salesforce vulnerability and legacy quirks in Facebook’s web […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2023
WikiLoader malware-as-a-service targets Italian organizations

Threat actors are targeting Italian organizations with a phishing campaign aimed at delivering a new malware called WikiLoader. WikiLoader is a new piece of malware that is employed in a phishing campaign that is targeting Italian organizations. Threat actors behind the campaign are using WikiLoader to deliver a banking trojan, stealer, and malware such as Ursnif to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2023
Be aware of exposure of sensitive data on Wi-Fi settings for Canon inkjet printers

Canon warns that sensitive data on the Wi-Fi connection settings stored in the memories of inkjet printers may not be deleted during initialization. Canon warns that sensitive information on the Wi-Fi connection settings stored in the memories of home and office/large format inkjet printers may not be deleted by the usual initialization process. When a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2023
Experts discovered a previously undocumented initial access vector used by P2PInfect worm

Cado Security observed a new variant of the P2PInfect worm targets Redis servers with a previously undocumented initial access vector. In July, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers 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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2023
Experts link AVRecon bot to the malware proxy service SocksEscort

The AVRecon botnet relies on compromised small office/home office (SOHO) routers since at least May 2021. In early July, researchers from Lumen Black Lotus Labs discovered the AVRecon botnet that targets small office/home office (SOHO) routers and infected over 70,000 devices from 20 countries. Threat actors behind the campaign aimed at building a botnet to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2023
Experts warn attackers started exploiting Citrix ShareFile RCE flaw CVE-2023-24489

Researchers warn that threat actors started exploiting Citrix ShareFile RCE vulnerability CVE-2023-24489 in the wild. Citrix ShareFile is a widely used cloud-based file-sharing application, which is affected by the critical remote code execution (RCE) tracked as CVE-2023-24489 (CVSS score of 9.1). The flaw impacts the customer-managed ShareFile storage zones controller, an unauthenticated, remote attacker can […]