Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2023
LockBit ransomware operation behind the Royal Mail cyberattack

The cyberattack on Royal Mail, Britain’s postal service, is a ransomware attack that was linked to the LockBit ransomware operation. Royal Mail, the British multinational postal service and courier company, this week announced that a “cyber incident” has a severe impact on its operation. The incident only impacted Royal Mail’s international export services, the company said it is temporarily […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2023
Threat actors target govt networks exploiting Fortinet SSL-VPN CVE-2022-42475 bug

Recently patched Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN zero-day exploited in attacks against government organizations and government-related targets. Fortinet researchers reported how threat actors exploited the recently patched FortiOS SSL-VPN vulnerability (CVE-2022-42475) in attacks against government organizations and government-related targets. According to Resecurity, a cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 globally, the vulnerability was earlier marketed privately by several […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2023
Threat actors actively exploit Control Web Panel RCE following PoC release

Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Control Web Panel (CWP). Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-44877 (CVSS score: 9.8), in Control Web Panel (CWP). The exploitation attempts began on January 6, 2023, after a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code was published […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2023
Twitter: 200M dataset was not obtained through the exploitation of flaws in its systems

Twitter said that its investigation revealed that users’ data offered for sale online was not obtained from its systems. Twitter provided an update on its investigation launched after data of 200 Million users were offered for sale online. The company has found “no evidence” that the data were obtained by hacking into its systems. Below […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2023
Royal Mail is suffering service disruption due to a ‘cyber incident’

Royal Mail, Britain’s postal service, announced it has suffered a “cyber incident” that caused a “severe service disruption.” Royal Mail, the British multinational postal service and courier company, announced this week that a “cyber incident” has a severe impact on its operation. The incident only impacted Royal Mail’s international export services, the company said it is temporarily unable to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2023
Gootkit Loader campaign targets Australian Healthcare Industry

Threat actors are targeting organizations in the Australian healthcare sector with the Gootkit malware loader. Trend Micro researchers warn that Gootkit Loader is actively targeting the Australian healthcare industry. The experts analyzed a series of attacks and discovered that Gootkit leveraged SEO poisoning for its initial access and abused legitimate tools like VLC Media Player. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2023
US CISA adds MS Exchange bug CVE-2022-41080 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US CISA added Microsoft Exchange elevation of privileges bug CVE-2022-41080 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The first issue, tracked as CVE-2022-41080, is a Microsoft Exchange server privilege escalation vulnerability. The issue can be chained with CVE-2022-41082 (ProxyNotShell) to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2023
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for January 2023 fixed actively exploited zero-day

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for January 2023 fixed 97 flaws and an actively exploited zero-day. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for January 2023 addressed a total of 98 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; .NET Core and Visual Studio Code, 3D Builder, Azure Service Fabric Container, Windows BitLocker, Windows […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2023
StrongPity APT spreads backdoored Android Telegram app via fake Shagle site

The StrongPity APT group targeted Android users with a trojanized version of the Telegram app served through a website impersonating a video chat service called Shagle. ESET researchers reported that StrongPity APT group targeted Android users with a trojanized version of the Telegram app. The campaign has been active since November 2021, threat actors served the malicious app […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2023
Remote code execution bug discovered in the popular JsonWebToken library

The open-source jsonwebtoken (JWT) library is affected by a high-severity security flaw that could lead to remote code execution. The open-source JsonWebToken (JWT) library is affected by a high-severity security flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-23529 (CVSS score: 7.6), that could lead to remote code execution. The package is maintained by Auth0, it had over 9 million weekly downloads […]