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Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2025
British retailer giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) is managing a cyber incident

Marks & Spencer (M&S) confirmed it’s managing a cyber incident after multiple customer complaints surfaced on social media. Marks and Spencer Group plc (M&S) announced it has been managing a cyber incident in recent days with the help of external cyber security experts. Customers report outages affecting card payments, gift cards, and M&S’s Click and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2025
Chinese Cybercriminals Released Z-NFC Tool for Payment Fraud

Cybercriminals leverage NFC fraud against ATMs and POS terminals, stealing money from consumers at scale. Resecurity (USA) investigated multiple incidents identified in Q1 2025, exceeding several million dollars in damages for one of the top Fortune 100 financial institutions in the United States due to NFC fraud. Stopping cybercriminals operating from China presents significant challenges […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2025
Abilene city, Texas, takes systems offline following a cyberattack

Abilene, Texas, shut down systems after a cyberattack caused server issues. IT staff and experts are investigating the security incident. Abilene, Texas, shut down systems after a cyberattack caused server issues. The incident occurred on April 18, 2025, emergency services remained operational, and no financial irregularities were found. “On April 18, 2025, City officials received […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2025
Japan ’s FSA warns of unauthorized trades via stolen credentials from fake security firms’ sites

Japan ’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) warns of hundreds of millions in unauthorized trades linked to hacked brokerage accounts. Japan ’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) reported that the damage caused by unauthorized access to and transactions on internet trading services is increasing. “There has been a sharp increase in the number of cases of unauthorized […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2025
Kimsuky APT exploited BlueKeep RDP flaw in attacks against South Korea and Japan

Researchers spotted a new North Korea-linked group Kimsuky ‘s campaign, exploiting a patched Microsoft Remote Desktop Services flaw to gain initial access. While investigating a security breach, the AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) researchers discovered a North Korea-linked group Kimsuky ‘s campaign, tracked as Larva-24005. Attackers exploited an RDP vulnerability to gain initial access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2025
Russia-linked APT29 targets European diplomatic entities with GRAPELOADER malware

Russia-linked group APT29 targeted diplomatic entities across Europe with a new malware loader codenamed GRAPELOADER. Check Point Research team reported that Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT29 (aka SVR group, Cozy Bear, Nobelium, BlueBravo, Midnight Blizzard, and The Dukes) is behind a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting European diplomatic entities, using a new WINELOADER variant and a previously unknown malware called GRAPELOADER. “While the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2025
Security Affairs newsletter Round 520 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Attackers exploited SonicWall SMA appliances since January 2025 ASUS routers with AiCloud vulnerable to auth bypass exploit U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2025
Attackers exploited SonicWall SMA appliances since January 2025

Threat actors are actively exploiting a remote code execution flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances since January 2025. Arctic Wolf researchers warn that threat actors actively exploit a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-20035 (CVSS score of 7.1), in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) since at least January 2025. The vulnerability is an OS Command […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Apple products and Microsoft Windows NTLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple products and Microsoft Windows NTLM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Apple products and Microsoft Windows NTLM vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the descriptions of the flaws: This week Apple released out‑of‑band […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2025
China-linked APT Mustang Panda upgrades tools in its arsenal

China-linked APT group Mustang Panda deployed a new custom backdoor, MQsTTang, in recent attacks targeting Europe, Asia, and Australia. China-linked APT group Mustang Panda (aka Camaro Dragon, RedDelta or Bronze President). deployed a new custom backdoor, tracked as MQsTTang, in recent attacks targeting entities in Europe, Asia, and Australia. Mustang Panda has been active since […]