Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2021
Microsoft Azure cloud service mitigated a massive DDoS attack of 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) at the end of August, it is the largest DDoS attack to date. Microsoft announced that its Azure cloud service mitigated a 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) DDoS attack at the end of August, it represents the largest DDoS attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2021
DEV-0343: Iran-linked threat actors are targeting US and Israeli defense technology companies leveraging password spraying attacks. Researchers at Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) and Microsoft Digital Security Unit (DSU) uncovered a malicious activity cluster, tracked as DEV-0343, that is targeting the Office 365 tenants of US and Israeli defense technology companies. Threat actors are launching extensive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2021
LibreOffice and OpenOffice released security updates to address a vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to spoof signed documents. LibreOffice and OpenOffice released security updates to address a moderate-severity flaw that can allow attackers to manipulate documents to appear as signed by a trusted source. “It is possible for an attacker to manipulate documents […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2021
Donot Team targeted a Togolese human rights advocate with a mobile spyware that has been allegedly developed by an Indian firm. Researchers from Amnesty International have uncovered a cyberespionage campaign tracked as ‘Donot Team‘ (aka APT-C-35), which was orchestrated by threat actors in India and Pakistan. Experts believe the attackers used a spyware developed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2021
Medical device maker Medtronic recalled the remote controllers used with some of its insulin pumps because of dangerous vulnerabilities. Medical device maker Medtronic has recalled the remote controllers used with some of its insulin pumps because of they are affected by severe vulnerabilities that could lead to injury or death of the patients. An attacker can exploit the vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2021
Security expert Dhiraj Mishra published an NMAP script for the CVE-2021-41773 Path Traversal vulnerability affecting Apache Web Server version 2.4.49. Security researcher Dhiraj Mishra released an NMAP script for the CVE-2021-41773 path traversal vulnerability affecting Apache Web Server version 2.4.49. This week Apache Software Foundation has released HTTP Web Server 2.4.51 to address an actively exploited path […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2021
Microsoft revealed that Russia-linked cyberespionage groups are behind the majority of the nation-state cyber attacks on US government agencies. Microsoft revealed that most of the cyber attacks on US government agencies are orchestrated by Russia-linked cyberespionage groups. According to the IT giant, approximately 58% of all nation-state attacks between July 2020 and June 2021 were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2021
Google warned more than 14,000 Gmail users that they have been the target of nation-state spear-phishing campaigns. On Wednesday, Google announced to have warned approximately 14,000 Gmail users that they had been targeted by nation-state hackers. Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2021
Apache Software Foundation has released HTTP Web Server 2.4.51 to completely address a vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. Apache Software Foundation has released HTTP Web Server 2.4.51 to address an actively exploited path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2021-41773) that was only partially addressed with a previous release. An attacker can trigger the flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2021
Researchers detailed the activities of the FIN12 ransomware group that earned million of dollars over the past years. Researchers from Mandiant published a detailed report on the activities of a financially motivated ransomware group tracked as FIN12 that has been active since at least October 2018. The vast majority of FIN12 victims have more than […]
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