Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2022
Cybernews investigated a data sample available for sale containing up-to-date mobile phone numbers of nearly 500 million WhatsApp users. Original post published by Cybernews: https://cybernews.com/news/whatsapp-data-leak/ On November 16, an actor posted an ad on a well-known hacking community forum, claiming they were selling a 2022 database of 487 million WhatsApp user mobile numbers. The dataset […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2022
Researchers warn of an ongoing aggressive Qakbot malware campaign that leads to Black Basta ransomware infections in the US. Experts at the Cybereason Global SOC (GSOC) team have observed a surge in Qakbot infections as part of an ongoing aggressive Qakbot malware campaign that leads to Black Basta ransomware infections in the US. In the last two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2022
Microsoft reported that hackers have exploited flaws in a now-discontinued web server called Boa in attacks against critical industries. Microsoft experts believe that threat actors behind a malicious campaign aimed at Indian critical infrastructure earlier this year have exploited security flaws in a now-discontinued web server called Boa. The Boa web server is widely used across a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2022
Pro-Russian hacker collective Killnet took down the European Parliament website with a DDoS cyberattack. The Pro-Russia group of hacktivists Killnet claimed responsibility for the DDoS attack that today took down the website of the European Parliament website. “KILLNET officially recognises the European Parliament as sponsors of homosexualism,” states the group. The attack was launched immediately […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2022
The operators behind the Ducktail information stealer continue to improve their malicious code, operators experts warn. In late July 2022, researchers from WithSecure (formerly F-Secure Business) discovered an ongoing operation, named DUCKTAIL, that was targeting individuals and organizations that operate on Facebook’s Business and Ads platform. Experts attribute the campaign to a Vietnamese financially motivated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2022
The gang behind Quantum Locker used a particular modus operandi to target large enterprises relying on cloud services in the NACE region. Executive Summary Incident Insights During the latest weeks, the Belgian company Computerland shared insights with the European threat intelligence community about Quantum TTPs adopted in recent attacks. The shared information revealed Quantum gang […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2022
A researcher revealed how to bypass some of the filters in Cisco Secure Email Gateway appliance and deliver malware using specially crafted emails. An anonymous researcher publicly disclosed a series of techniques to bypass some of the filters in Cisco Secure Email Gateway appliance and deliver malware using specially crafted emails. The researcher pointed out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2022
Researchers warn of threat actors employing a new Go-based malware dubbed Aurora Stealer in attacks in the wild. Aurora Stealer is an info-stealing malware that was first advertised on Russian-speaking underground forums in April 2022. Aurora was offered as Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) by a threat actor known as Cheshire. It is a multi-purpose botnet with data stealing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2022
The Emotet malware is back and experts warn of a high-volume malspam campaign delivering payloads like IcedID and Bumblebee. Proofpoint researchers warn of the return of the Emotet malware, in early November the experts observed a high-volume malspam campaign delivering payloads like IcedID and Bumblebee. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, the botnet is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2022
A researcher published details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code for High-Severity macOS Sandbox escape vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-26696. Researcher Wojciech Reguła (@_r3ggi) of SecuRing published technical details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a macOS sandbox escape vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-26696 (CVSS score of 7.8). In a wrap-up published by Regula, the researcher observed that the problem is caused […]
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