Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2022
Block discloses data breach involving Cash App potentially impacting 8.2 million US customers

Block disclosed a data breach related to the Cash App investing app and is notifying 8.2 million current and former US customers. The data breach involved a former employee that downloaded some unspecified reports of its Cash App Investing app that contained some U.S. customer information. Cash App is an app that allows users to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2022
Russia-linked Armageddon APT targets Ukrainian state organizations, CERT-UA warns

Ukraine CERT-UA spotted a spear-phishing campaign conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT targeting local state organizations. Ukraine CERT-UA published a security advisory to warn of spear-phishing attacks conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT (aka Gamaredon, Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) targeting local state organizations. The phishing messages have been sent from “vadim_melnik88@i[.]ua,” the campaign aims at […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2022
MailChimp breached, intruders conducted phishing attacks against crypto customers

Threat actors gained access to internal tools of the email marketing giant MailChimp to conduct phishing attacks against crypto customers. During the weekend, multiple owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets reported having received fake data breach notifications from Trezor, BleepingComputer first reported. The fake data breach notification emails urged Trezort customers to reset the PIN of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2022
Brokenwire attack, how hackers can disrupt charging for electric vehicles

Boffins devised a new attack technique, dubbed Brokenwire, against the Combined Charging System (CCS) that could potentially disrupt charging for electric vehicles. A group of researchers from the University of Oxford and Armasuisse S+T has devised a new attack technique, dubbed Brokenwire, against the popular Combined Charging System (CCS) that could be exploited by remote […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2022
Experts discovered 15-Year-Old vulnerabilities in the PEAR PHP repository

SonarSource discovered a 15-year-old flaw in the PEAR PHP repository that could have enabled supply chain attacks. Researchers from SonarSource discovered two 15-year-old security flaws in the PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) repository that could have enabled supply chain attacks. PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components.  According to the expert, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2022
China-linked APT Deep Panda employs new Fire Chili Windows rootkit

The China-linked hacking group Deep Panda is targeting VMware Horizon servers with the Log4Shell exploit to install a new Fire Chili rootkit. Researchers from Fortinet have observed the Chinese APT group Deep Panda exploiting a Log4Shell exploit to compromise VMware Horizon servers and deploy previously undetected Fire Chili rootkit. The experts observed opportunistic attacks against organizations […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 359 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Anonymous leaked 15 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian Orthodox Church UK […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2022
Anonymous leaked 15 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian Orthodox Church

Anonymous claims to have hacked the Russian Orthodox Church ‘s charitable wing and leaked 15 GB of alleged stolen data. Anonymous continues to target Russian government entities and private businesses, this week the group claimed to have hacked the private firms Thozis Corp and Marathon Group owned by oligarchs. Now the collective announced the hack of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2022
UK Police charges two teenagers for their alleged role in the Lapsus$ extortion group

The City of London Police charged two of the seven teenagers who were arrested for their alleged role in the LAPSUS$ data extortion gang. The duo has been released on bail after appearing in the Highbury Corner Magistrates Court court on Friday. The City of London Police charged two of the seven teenagers recently arrested […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2022
Critical CVE-2022-1162 flaw in GitLab allowed threat actors to take over accounts

GitLab has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1162 (CVSS score of 9.1), that could allow remote attackers to take over user accounts. The CVE-2022-1162 vulnerability is related to the set of hardcoded static passwords during OmniAuth-based registration in GitLab CE/EE. “A hardcoded password was set for accounts registered using an OmniAuth provider (e.g. OAuth, LDAP, […]