Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2025
Medusa ransomware hit over 300 critical infrastructure organizations until February 2025

The Medusa ransomware operation hit over 300 organizations in critical infrastructure sectors in the United States until February 2025. The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint advisory detailing Medusa ransomware tactics, techniques, and indicators of compromise (IOCs) based on FBI investigations as recent as February 2025. This advisory is part of the #StopRansomware […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2025
China-linked APT UNC3886 targets EoL Juniper routers

Mandiant researchers warn that China-linked actors are deploying custom backdoors on Juniper Networks Junos OS MX routers. In mid-2024, Mandiant identified custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos OS routers, and attributed the attacks to a China-linked espionage group tracked as UNC3886. These TINYSHELL-based backdoors had various capabilities, including active and passive access and a script to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2025
U.S. CISA adds six Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds six Microsoft Windows flaws 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 these flaws that Microsoft addressed with the release of Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2025
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2025 fix six actively exploited zero-days

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2025 address 56 security vulnerabilities in its products, including six actively exploited zero-days. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2025 addressed 56 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components, Office and Office Components, Azure, .NET and Visual Studio, Remote Desktop Services, DNS Server, and Hyper-V Server. This Patch […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2025
New Ballista Botnet spreads using TP-Link flaw. Is it an Italian job?

The Ballista botnet is exploiting an unpatched TP-Link vulnerability, targeting over 6,000 Archer routers, Cato CTRL researchers warn. Cato CTRL researchers observed a new botnet, called Ballista botnet, which is exploiting a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-1389 (CVSS score 8.8), in TP-Link Archer routers. The CVE-2023-1389 flaw is an unauthenticated command injection […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2025
Apple fixed the third actively exploited zero-day of 2025

Apple addressed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-24201, that has been exploited in “extremely sophisticated” cyber attacks. Apple has released emergency security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-24201, in the WebKit cross-platform web browser engine. The vulnerability is an out-of-bounds write issue that was exploited in “extremely sophisticated” attacks. An attacker can […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Advantive VeraCore and Ivanti EPM flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Advantive VeraCore and Ivanti EPM flaws 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: A Vietnamese cybercrime group, tracked as XE Group, is exploiting the above VeraCore vulnerabilities, deploying reverse shells and web shells […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2025
Elon Musk blames a massive cyberattack for the X outages

Elon Musk said that the global outages impacting its platform X during the day are being caused by a cyberattack. A major cyber attack appears to be the root cause of the global outage on X, according to its CEO Elon Musk. About 40,000 users reported issues accessing Twitter, according to Downdetector.com. Musk has provided […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2025
Experts warn of mass exploitation of critical PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577

Threat actors exploit PHP flaw CVE-2024-4577 for remote code execution. Over 1,000 attacks detected globally. GreyNoise researchers warn of a large-scale exploitation of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577 (CVSS 9.8), in PHP. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to achieve remote code execution on vulnerable servers using Apache and PHP-CGI. The flaw CVE-2024-4577 (CVSS score: 9.8) is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2025
RansomHouse gang claims the hack of the Loretto Hospital in Chicago

Another American hospital falls victim to a ransomware attack; the RansomHouse gang announced the hack of Loretto Hospital in Chicago.” The RansomHouse gang announced the hack of Loretto Hospital in Chicago, the groups claims to have stolen 1.5TB of sensitive data. The Loretto Hospital is a not-for-profit, community-focused health care provider. They provide healthcare services […]