Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2022
AquaSec researchers observed the cybercrime gang TeamTNT hijacking servers to run Bitcoin solver since early September. In the first week of September, AquaSec researchers identified at least three different attacks targeting their honeypots, the experts associated them with the cybercrime gang TeamTNT. The TeamTNT botnet is a crypto-mining malware operation that has been active since April 2020 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 18, 2022
Uber hack update: There is no evidence that users’ private information was compromised in the data breach. Uber provided an update regarding the recent security breach of its internal computer systems, the company confirmed that there is no evidence that intruders had access to users’ private information. “We have no evidence that the incident involved […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2022
The Password management solution LastPass revealed that the threat actors had access to its systems for four days during the August hack. Password management solution LastPass shared more details about the security breach that the company suffered in August 2022. The company revealed that the threat actor had access to its network for four days […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2022
Uber on Thursday disclosed a security breach, threat actors gained access to its network, and stole internal documents. Uber on Thursday suffered a cyberattack, the attackers were able to penetrate its internal network and access internal documents, including vulnerability reports. According to the New York Times, the threat actors hacked an employee’s Slack account and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2022
Akamai announced to have recently blocked a new record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. On Monday, September 12, 2022, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack ever that hit one of its European customers. The malicious traffic peaked at 704.8 Mpps and appears to originate from the same threat actor behind the previous record that Akamai blocked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2022
Russia-linked Gamaredon APT targets employees of the Ukrainian government, defense, and law enforcement agencies with a custom information-stealing malware. Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, and Trident Ursa) is targeting employees of the Ukrainian government, defense, and law enforcement agencies with a piece of a custom-made information stealer implant. The malicious code was designed to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2022
The FBI has issued an alert about threat actors targeting healthcare payment processors in an attempt to hijack the payments. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert about cyber attacks against healthcare payment processors to redirect victim payments. Threat actors used employees’ publicly-available Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and social engineering techniques to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2022
Threat actors are exploiting the death of Queen Elizabeth II as bait in phishing attacks to steal Microsoft account credentials from victims. Researchers from Proofpoint are warning of threat actors that are using the death of Queen Elizabeth II as bait in phishing attacks. The attackers aim at tricking recipients into visiting sites designed to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2022
China-linked SparklingGoblin APT was spotted using a Linux variant of a backdoor known as SideWalk against a Hong Kong university. Researchers from ESET discovered a Linux variant of the SideWalk backdoor, which is a custom implant used by the China-linked SparklingGoblin APT group. The SparklingGoblin APT is believed to be a group that operated under […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2022
Threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the WPGateway premium plugin to target WordPress websites. The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team reported that threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2022-3180) in the WPGateway premium plugin in attacks aimed at WordPress sites. The WPGateway plugin is a premium plugin that allows users of […]
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