Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2023
Social engineering, deception becomes increasingly sophisticated

Social engineering techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are exploiting multiple emerging means, such as deep fakes. The increasing use of videoconferencing platforms and the various forms of remote work also adopted in the post-emergency covid make interpersonal collaborations increasingly virtual. This scenario must undoubtedly force organizations to prepare adequately to be able to recognize […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2023
ENISA and CERT-EU warns Chinese APTs targeting EU organizations

A joint report published by ENISA and CERT-EU warns of Chinese APTs targeting businesses and government organizations in the European Union. The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and CERT-EU warn of multiple China-linked threat actors targeting businesses and government organizations in the EU. The joint report focus on cyber activities conducted by multiple Chinese […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2023
Hackers disclose Atlassian data after the theft of an employee’s credentials

Atlassian discloses a data leak that was caused by the theft of employee credentials which was used to steal data from a third-party vendor. A group of hackers called SiegedSec recently published on its Telegram channel a JSON file containing data belonging to thousands of Atlassian employees and floor plans for two of the company’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2023
GoDaddy discloses a new data breach

GoDaddy discloses a security breach, threat actors have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers in a long-runing attack. Web hosting company GoDaddy announced that attackers have stolen source code and installed malware on its servers. The threat actors have breached its cPanel shared hosting environment, the company states that it is not […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2023
Fortinet fixes critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb

Cybersecurity vendor Fortinet has addressed two critical vulnerabilities impacting its FortiNAC and FortiWeb products. Cybersecurity firm Fortinet has released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities in FortiNAC and FortiWeb solutions. The two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-39952 and CVE-2021-42756, are respectively an external control of file name or path in Fortinet FortiNAC and a collection […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2023
German airport websites hit by DDos attacks once again

Experts are investigating the failures of several German airports after some media attributed them to a possible hacking campaign. On Thursday, the websites of several German airports were unreachable, experts launched an investigation speculating a possible cyberattack on a large scale against the critical infrastructure. Ralph Beisel. chief executive of the ADV airport association, confirmed […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2023
Mirai V3G4 botnet exploits 13 flaws to target IoT devices

During the second half of 2022, a variant of the Mirai bot, tracked as V3G4, targeted IoT devices by exploiting tens of flaws. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers reported that a Mirai variant called V3G4 was attempting to exploit several flaws to infect IoT devices from July to December 2022.  Below is the list […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2023
Over 500 ESXiArgs Ransomware infections in one day, but they dropped the day after

ESXiArgs ransomware continues to spread in Europe, most of the recent infections were observed in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Ukraine Researchers from Censys reported that more than 500 hosts have been infected in a new wave of ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, most of which are in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2023
Hyundai and Kia to patch a flaw that allows the theft of the cars with a USB cable

Hyundai and Kia car makers are releasing an emergency software update to fix a flaw that can allow stealing a car with a USB cable. Carmakers Hyundai and KIA are rolling out an emergency update for the software shipped with several car models. The update addresses a bug that can be exploited by thieves to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2023
City of Oakland issued a local state of emergency after recent ransomware attack

The City of Oakland has declared a local state of emergency due to the effect of the ransomware attack that hit the city on February 8, 2023. The City of Oakland disclosed last week a ransomware attack, the security breach began on February 8, 2023. In an abundance of caution, the City of Oakland has […]