Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2022
QNAP force-installs update against the recent wave of DeadBolt ransomware infections

QNAP forces its customers to update the firmware of their Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices to protect against the DeadBolt ransomware. QNAP forced the firmware update for its Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices to protect its customers against the DeadBolt ransomware. DeadBolt ransomware is targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide, its operators claim the availability of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2022
Finnish diplomats’ devices infected with Pegasus spyware

Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs revealed that devices of Finnish diplomats have been infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. Finland’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs revealed that the devices of some Finnish diplomats have been compromised with the infamous NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The diplomats were targeted with the popular surveillance software as part of a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2022
Delta Electronics, a tech giants’ contractor, hit by Conti ransomware

Delta Electronics, a Taiwanese contractor for multiple tech giants such as Apple, Dell, HP and Tesla, was hit by Conti ransomware Taiwanese electronics manufacturing company Delta Electronics was hit by the Conti ransomware that took place this week. Delta Electronics operates as a contractor for major tech giants such as Apple, Tesla, HP, and Dell. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2022
Experts devise a technique to bypass Microsoft Outlook Security feature

A researcher devised a technique to bypass a security feature of Microsoft Outlook and deliver a malicious link to the recipient. Reegun Richard Jayapaul, SpiderLabs lead threat architect at Trustwave, has devised a technique to bypass a security feature of Microsoft Outlook and deliver a malicious link to the recipient. While investigating a malware campaign, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2022
Puerto Rico was hit by a major cyberattack

Puerto Rico’s Senate announced that is was it by a cyberattack that shut down its internet provider, phone system and official online page. The Senate of Puerto Rico announced this week that it was hit by a major cyberattack that disabled its internet provider, phone system and official online page. Local and federal authorities are […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2022
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT used Windows Update client and GitHub in recent attacks

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group uses Windows Update client to deliver malware on Windows systems. North Korea-linked Lazarus APT started using Windows Update to execute the malicious payload and GitHub as a command and control server in recent attacks, Malwarebytes researchers reported. The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2022
Microsoft mitigated a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest one to date

Microsoft announced to have mitigated a record 3.47 Tbps distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeting an Azure customer. Microsoft announced that its Azure DDoS protection platform has mitigated a record 3.47 Tbps attack that targeted one of its customers with a packet rate of 340 million packets per second (pps). The news of the attack was reported in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2022
Apple fixed the first two zero-day vulnerabilities of 2022

Apple released security updates to fix two zero-day flaws, one of them actively exploited to hack iPhones and Macs. Apple has released security updates to address a couple of zero-day vulnerabilities, one of them being actively exploited in the wild by threat actors to compromise iPhone and Mac devices. One of the zero-day flaws addressed […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2022
German intelligence agency warns of China-linked APT27 targeting commercial organizations

The BfV German domestic intelligence services warn of ongoing attacks carried out by the China-linked APT27 cyberespionage group. The Bun­des­amt für Ver­fas­sungs­schutz (BfV) federal domestic intelligence agency warns of ongoing attacks coordinated by the China-linked APT27 group. “The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution ( BfV ) has information about an ongoing cyber espionage campaign […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2022
New DeadBolt ransomware targets QNAP NAS devices

New malware is targeting targets QNAP NAS devices, it is the DeadBolt ransomware and ask 50 BTC for master key DeadBolt ransomware is targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide, its operators claim the availability of a zero-day exploit that allows them to encrypt the content of the infected systems. Once encrypted the content of the device, […]