Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2025
China-linked APT group Winnti targets Japanese organizations since March 2024

China-linked threat actor Winnti targeted Japanese companies in the manufacturing, materials, and energy sectors in March 2024 as part of a campaign dubbed RevivalStone. Researchers from cybersecurity firm LAC uncovered a new cyberespionage campaign, tracked as RevivalStone, carried out by the China-linked APT group Winnti in March 2024. Threat actors targeted Japanese companies in the manufacturing, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2025
Xerox VersaLink C7025 Multifunction printer flaws may expose Windows Active Directory credentials to attackers

Xerox VersaLink C7025 Multifunction printer flaws could allow attackers to capture authentication credentials via pass-back attacks via LDAP and SMB/FTP services. Rapid7 researchers discovered vulnerabilities in Xerox Versalink C7025 Multifunction printers (MFPs) that could allow attackers to capture authentication credentials via pass-back attacks via LDAP and SMB/FTP services. The vulnerabilities are: The vulnerabilities impact Xerox […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2025
Dutch Police shut down bulletproof hosting provider Zservers and seized 127 servers

Dutch police seized 127 servers of the bulletproof hosting service Zservers/XHost after government sanctions. On February 11, 2025, the US, UK, and Australia sanctioned a Russian bulletproof hosting services provider and two Russian administrators because they supported Russian ransomware LockBit operations. Alexander Igorevich Mishin and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Bolshakov are the two Russian nationals and administrators of Zservers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2025
Pro-Russia collective NoName057(16) launched a new wave of DDoS attacks on Italian sites

Pro-Russia collective NoName057(16) launched DDoS attacks on Italian sites, targeting airports, the Transport Authority, major ports, and banks. The pro-Russia hacker group NoName057(16) launched a new wave of DDoS attacks this morning against multiple Italian entities. The group targeted the websites of Linate and Malpensa airports, the Transport Authority, the bank Intesa San Paolo, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2025
whoAMI attack could allow remote code execution within AWS account

Researchers warn that the whoAMI attack lets attackers publish an AMI with a specific name to execute code in an AWS account. Cybersecurity researchers at Datadog Security Labs devised a new name confusion attack technique, called whoAMI, that allows threat actors to execute arbitrary code execution within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) account by publishing […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2025
Storm-2372 used the device code phishing technique since August 2024

Russia-linked group Storm-2372 used the device code phishing technique since Aug 2024 to steal login tokens from governments, NGOs, and industries. Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers warn that threat actor Storm-2372, likely linked to Russia, has been targeting governments, NGOs, and various industries across multiple regions since August 2024. The attackers employ a phishing technique called […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Apple iOS and iPadOS and Mitel SIP Phones flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple iOS and iPadOS and Mitel SIP Phones vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Apple iOS and iPadOS and Mitel SIP Phones vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The two vulnerabilities are: This week Apple released […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2025
Attackers exploit recently disclosed Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS firewalls bug

Threat actors are exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0108, in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS firewalls. Researchers warn that threat actors are exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0108, in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS firewalls. The Shadowserver Foundation researchers observed several CVE-2025-0108 attempts since 4 am UTC 2024-02-13 in their honeypots. The experts said […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2025
U.S. CISA adds SimpleHelp flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SimpleHelp vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a SimpleHelp vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-57727, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. At the end of January, Horizon3 researchers discovered three vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-57726, CVE-2024-57727, and CVE-2024-57728, that could be used […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2025
China-linked APT Salt Typhoon breached telecoms by exploiting Cisco router flaws

China-linked APT Salt Typhoon has breached more U.S. telecommunications providers via unpatched Cisco IOS XE network devices. China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon is still targeting telecommunications providers worldwide, and according to a new report published by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, the threat actors has breached more U.S. telecommunications providers by exploiting unpatched Cisco IOS XE […]