Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2023
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT used a 0-day in a recent attack

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group exploits a zero-day vulnerability in attacks aimed at a South Korean financial entity. ASEC (AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center) observed North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in an undisclosed software to breach a financial business entity in South Korea. The nation-state actors breached twice the company in one year. The first […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2023
China-linked APT Sharp Panda targets government entities in Southeast Asia

China-linked APT group Sharp Panda targets high-profile government entities in Southeast Asia with the Soul modular framework. CheckPoint researchers observed in late 2022, a campaign attributed to the China-linked APT group Sharp Panda that is targeting a high-profile government entity in the Southeast Asia. The state-sponsored hackers used a new version of the SoulSearcher loader, which eventually loads a new […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2023
VMware NSX Manager bugs actively exploited in the wild since December

Security researchers warn of hacking attempts in the wild exploiting critical vulnerabilities in VMware NSX Manager. Cyber security firm Wallarm is warning of ongoing attacks exploiting the critical flaws, tracked as CVE-2021-39144 (CVSS score of 9.8) and CVE-2022-31678 (CVSS score of 9.1), in VMware NSX Manager. VMware NSX is a network virtualization solution that is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2023
SYS01 stealer targets critical government infrastructure

Researchers discovered a new info stealer dubbed SYS01 stealer targeting critical government infrastructure and manufacturing firms. Cybersecurity researchers from Morphisec discovered a new, advanced information stealer, dubbed SYS01 stealer, that since November 2022 was employed in attacks aimed at critical government infrastructure employees, manufacturing companies, and other sectors. The experts found similarities between the SYS01 stealer and another […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2023
Expert released PoC exploit code for critical Microsoft Word RCE flaw

Security researcher released a proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-21716, in Microsoft Word. Security researcher Joshua Drake released a proof-of-concept for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-21716 (CVSS score 9.8 out of 10), in Microsoft Word. The vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2023
LastPass hack caused by an unpatched Plex software on an employee’s PC

The LastPass data breach was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of the company updates. The security breach suffered by LastPass was caused by the failure to update Plex on the home computer of one of its engineers. Recently, the password management software firm disclosed a “second attack,” […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2023
European police dismantled the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang

German police announced to have dismantled an international cybercrime gang behind the DoppelPaymer ransomware operation. Europol has announced that an international operation conducted by law enforcement in Germany and Ukraine, with help of the US FBI and the Dutch police, targeted two key figures of the DoppelPaymer ransomware group. “On 28 February 2023, the German […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2023
US government orders States to conduct cyber security audits of public water systems

The US government urges cyber security audits of public water systems, highlighting the importance to secure US critical infrastructure. The Biden administration announced on Friday that it will make it mandatory for the states to conduct cyber security audits of public water systems. Water systems are critical infrastructures that are increasingly exposed to the risk […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2023
Hatch Bank data breach caused by the exploitation of the GoAnywhere MFT zero-day

Fintech platform Hatch Bank disclosed a data breach, hackers exploited a recently discovered zero-day in Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing platform. Hatch Bank is a fintech firm that provides services to other fintech companies. The company disclosed a data breach and revealed that the attackers have exploited a recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in the company’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2023
Colour-Blind, a fully featured info stealer and RAT in PyPI

Experts discovered a fully featured information stealer, tracked as ‘Colour-Blind’ in the Python Package Index (PyPI). Researchers from Kroll’s Cyber Threat Intelligence team discovered a malicious Python package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) that contained a fully-featured information stealer and remote access trojan tracked as Colour-Blind. Below is the list of capabilities supported […]