Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2022
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) warned Americans of the rising threat of smishing (robotexts) attacks. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an alert to warn Americans of the rising threat of smishing (robotexts) attacks aimed at stealing their personal information or for financial scams. “The FCC’s Robocall Response Team is alerting consumers to the rising […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2022
Threat actors that go online with the moniker Adrastea claim to have hacked the multinational manufacturer of missiles MBDA. MBDA is a European multinational developer and manufacturer of missiles that was the result of the merger of the main French, British and Italian missile systems companies (Aérospatiale–Matra, BAE Systems, and Finmeccanica (now Leonardo). The name MBDA comes from the initialism of the names missile companies: Matra, BAe Dynamics and Alenia. A threat actor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2022
North Korea-linked threat actor SharpTongue is using a malicious extension on Chromium-based web browsers to spy on victims’ email accounts. North Korea-linked actor SharpTongue has been using a malicious extension on Chromium-based web browsers to spy on victims’ Gmail and AOL email accounts. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Volexity tracked the threat actors as SharpTongue, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2022
Microsoft linked the recently discovered Raspberry Robin Windows malware to the notorious Evil Corp operation. On July 26, 2022, Microsoft researchers discovered that the FakeUpdates malware was being distributed via Raspberry Robin malware. Raspberry Robin is a Windows worm discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Red Canary, the malware propagates through removable USB devices. The malicious code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2022
Threat actors are actively exploiting the recently patched critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center Recenlty Atlassian released security updates to address a critical hardcoded credentials vulnerability in Confluence Server and Data Center tracked as CVE-2022-26138. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit the vulnerability to log into unpatched servers. Once installed the Questions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2022
This month Akamai blocked the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that hit an organization in Europe. On July 21, 2022, Akamai mitigated the largest DDoS attack that ever hit one of its European customers. The attack hit an Akamai customer in Eastern Europe that was targeted 75 times in the past 30 days with multiple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2022
Threat actors are devising new attack tactics in response to Microsoft’s decision to block Macros by default. In response to Microsoft’s decision steps to block Excel 4.0 (XLM or XL4) and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in Microsoft Office applications, threat actors are adopting new attack techniques. Researchers from Proofpoint reported that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2022
The Spanish police arrested two individuals accused to have hacked the country’s radioactivity alert network (RAR) in 2021. The Spanish police have arrested two men suspected to be the hackers behind cyberattacks that hit the country’s radioactivity alert network (RAR) between March and June 2021. The RAR system is a mesh of gamma radiation detection […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2022
Threat actors are increasingly abusing Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions to maintain persistence on target servers. Microsoft warns of threat actors that are increasingly abusing Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions to establish covert backdoors into servers and maintain persistence in the target networks. IIS backdoors are also hard to detect because they follow the same […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2022
Qakbot malware operators are using the Windows Calculator to side-load the malicious payload on target systems. Security expert ProxyLife and Cyble researchers recently uncovered a Qakbot campaign that was leveraging the Windows 7 Calculator app for DLL side-loading attacks. Dynamic-link library (DLL) side-loading is an attack method that takes advantage of how Microsoft Windows applications handle DLL […]
