Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2024
Rite Aid disclosed data breach following RansomHub ransomware attack

The American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corporation disclosed a data breach following the cyber attack that hit the company in June. The American drugstore chain giant Rite Aid suffered a data breach following a cyberattack in June conducted by the RansomHub ransomware group. The group is the third-largest drugstore chain in the United States, with […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2024
New AT&T data breach exposed call logs of almost all customers

AT&T disclosed a new data breach that exposed phone call and text message records for approximately 110 million people. AT&T suffered a massive data breach, attackers stole the call logs for approximately 110 million customers, which are almost all of the company’s mobile customers. The stolen data was stolen on a database hosted by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2024
Critical flaw in Exim MTA could allow to deliver malware to users’ inboxes

A critical vulnerability in Exim mail server allows attackers to deliver malicious executable attachments to mailboxes. Attackers can exploit a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-39929 (CVSS score of 9.1), in the Exim mail transfer agent to deliver malicious attachments to target users’ inboxes. Exim is a widely used Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) designed to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2024
Smishing Triad Is Targeting India To Steal Personal and Payment Data at Scale

Resecurity has identified a new campaign by the Smishing Triad that is targeting India to steal personal and payment data at scale Resecurity (USA) identified a new campaign targeting India Post (Department of Posts, India) by the Smishing Triad, which reportedly started amplifying around July 8, 2024, based on multiple victim reports and the detection […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2024
CrystalRay operations have scaled 10x to over 1,500 victims

A threat actor known as CrystalRay targeted 1,500 victims since February using tools like SSH-Snake and various open-source utilities. The Sysdig Threat Research Team (TRT) first spotted the threat actor CrystalRay on February 2024 and observed it using the SSH-Snake open-source software penetration testing tool. The experts collected new evidence that revealed that the threat actor expanded its operations. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2024
Multiple threat actors exploit PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver malware

Multiple threat actors exploit a recently disclosed security PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 to deliver multiple malware families. The Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT) warns that multiple threat actors are exploiting the PHP vulnerability CVE-2024-4577 to deliver multiple malware families, including Gh0st RAT, RedTail cryptominers, and XMRig. “Threat actors continued the speedy-time-from-disclosure-to-exploitation trend and were quick […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2024
AI-Powered Russia’s bot farm operates on X, US and its allies warn

The US and its allies disrupted an AI-powered Russia-linked bot farm on the social media platform X relying on the Meliorator AI software. The U.S. FBI and Cyber National Mission Force, along with Dutch and Canadian intelligence and security agencies, warned social media companies about Russian state-sponsored actors using covert AI software, Meliorator, in disinformation […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2024
A new flaw in OpenSSH can lead to remote code execution

A vulnerability affects some versions of the OpenSSH secure networking suite, it can potentially lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability CVE-2024-6409 (CVSS score: 7.0) impacts select versions of the OpenSSH secure networking suite, it can be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The issue is a possible race condition in cleanup_exit() in openssh’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2024
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows and Rejetto HTTP File Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows and Rejetto HTTP File Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Below are the descriptions of the flaws added to the KEV catalog: CVE-2024-23692 (CVSS score […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2024
RockYou2024 compilation containing 10 billion passwords was leaked online

Threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. The Cybernews researchers reported that threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. The compilation (“rockyou2024.txt”) contains 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords was posted on July 4th by a user with the […]