Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2021
WIRTE APT group targets the Middle East since at least 2019

A threat actor named WIRTE targets government, diplomatic entities, military organizations, law firms, and financial institutions in Middle East. Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky have detailed the activity of a threat actor named WIRTE that is targeting government, diplomatic entities, military organizations, law firms, and financial institutions in Middle East since early 2019. The activity of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2021
Experts warn of attacks exploiting CVE-2021-40438 flaw in Apache HTTP Server

Threat actors are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2021-40438 flaw in Apache HTTP servers, warns German Cybersecurity Agency and Cisco. Threat actors are exploiting a recently addressed server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-40438, in Apache HTTP servers. The CVE-2021-40438 flaw can be exploited against httpd web servers that have the mod_proxy module enabled. A threat actor […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2021
North Korea-linked Zinc group posed as Samsung recruiters to target security firms

North Korea-linked threat actors posed as Samsung recruiters in a spear-phishing campaign aimed at employees at South Korean security firms. North Korea-linked APT group posed as Samsung recruiters is a spear-phishing campaign that targeted South Korean security companies that sell anti-malware solutions, Google TAG researchers reported. According to the Google Threat Horizons report, the state-sponsored […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2021
Exclusive: Resecurity discovered 0-day vulnerability in TP-Link Wi-Fi 6 devices

Resecurity researchers found a zero-day vulnerability in the TP-Link enterprise device with model number TL-XVR1800L. Resecurity, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company has identified an active a zero-day vulnerability in the TP-Link device with model number TL-XVR1800L (Enterprise AX1800 Dual Band Gigabit Wi-Fi 6 Wireless VPN Router), which is primarily suited to enterprises. The identified vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2021
APT C-23 group targets Middle East with an enhanced Android spyware variant

A threat actor, tracked as APT C-23, is using new powerful Android spyware in attacks aimed at targets in the Middle East. The APT C-23 cyberespionage group (also known as GnatSpy, FrozenCell, or VAMP) continues to target entities in the Middle East with enhanced Android spyware masqueraded as seemingly harmless app updates (i.e. AndroidUpdate,, Telegram). The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2021
Several GoDaddy brands impacted in recent data breach

Recently disclosed data breach impacted several of its brands, including Domain Factory, Heart Internet, Host Europe, Media Temple, tsoHost and 123Reg. Recently GoDaddy has disclosed a data breach that impacted up to 1.2 million of its customers, threat actors breached the company’s Managed WordPress hosting environment. Threat actors compromised the company network since at least […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 25, 2021
Iranian threat actors exploit MS MSHTML bug to steal Google and Instagram credentials

An Iranian threat actor is stealing Google and Instagram credentials of Farsi-speaking targets by exploiting a Microsoft MSHTML bug. Researchers from SafeBreach Labs spotted a new Iranian threat actor that is using an exploit for a Microsoft MSHTML Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw in attacks aimed at Farsi-speaking victims. The exploit is used to install a PowerShell […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2021
A vulnerable honeypot exposed online can be compromised in 24 hours

Researchers deployed multiple instances of vulnerable systems and found that 80% of the 320 honeypots were compromised within 24 hours. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks deployed a honeypot infrastructure of 320 nodes to analyze how three actors target exposed services in public clouds. The company set up the honeypots between July 2021 and August 2021 to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2021
Expert discloses details of flaws in Oracle VirtualBox

A vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox could be potentially exploited to compromise the hypervisor and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. A vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox, tracked as CVE-2021-2442, could be potentially exploited to compromise the hypervisor and trigger a DoS condition. The vulnerability was discovered by Max Van Amerongen from SentinelLabs, it received a CVSS […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2021
Experts warn of RCE flaw in Imunify360 security platform

A flaw in CloudLinux’s Imunify360 security product could have been exploited by an attacker for remote code execution. Cisco’s Talos researchers discovered a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21956, in CloudLinux’s Imunify360 security product. Imunify360 is a security platform for web-hosting servers that allows to implement real-time protection for website and web servers. The […]