Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2024
Japanese video-sharing platform Niconico was victim of a cyber attack

The Japanese video-sharing platform, Niconico, was forced to suspend its services following a cybersecurity incident. The Japanese video-sharing platform, Niconico, temporarily suspended its services following a large-scale cyberattack on June 8, 2024. “Due to the effects of a large-scale cyber attack, Niconico has been unavailable since early morning on June 8th” reads the incident notice […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2024
Christie’s data breach impacted 45,798 individuals

Auction house Christie’s revealed that the data breach caused by the recent ransomware attack impacted 45,000 individuals. At the end of May, the auction house Christie’s disclosed a data breach after the ransomware group RansomHub threatened to leak stolen data. The security breach occurred in early May and the website of the auction house was unreachable after […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2024
Sticky Werewolf targets the aviation industry in Russia and Belarus

Morphisec researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Sticky Werewolf, targeting entities in Russia and Belarus. Sticky Werewolf is a threat actor that was first spotted in April 2023, initially targeting public organizations in Russia and Belarus. The group has expanded its operations to various sectors, including a pharmaceutical company and a Russian research institute […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2024
PHP addressed critical RCE flaw potentially impacting millions of servers

A new PHP for Windows remote code execution (RCE) flaw affects version 5.x and earlier versions, potentially impacting millions of servers worldwide. Researchers at cybersecurity firm DEVCORE discovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, in the PHP programming language. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw to take full control of affected servers. PHP is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2024
Pandabuy was extorted twice by the same threat actor

Chinese shopping platform Pandabuy previously paid a ransom demand to an extortion group that extorted the company again this week. The story of the attack against the Chinese shopping platform Pandabuy demonstrates that paying a ransom to an extortion group is risky to the victims. BleepingComputer first reported that Pandabuy had previously paid a ransom […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2024
Chinese threat actor exploits old ThinkPHP flaws since October 2023

Akamai observed a Chinese-speaking group exploiting two flaws, tracked as CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082, in ThinkPHP applications. Akamai researchers observed a Chinese threat actor exploiting two old remote code execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082, in ThinkPHP. The campaign seems to have been active since at least October 2023, it initially targeted a limited number of customers/organizations […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2024
Cisco addressed Webex flaws used to compromise German government meetings

Cisco addressed vulnerabilities that were exploited to compromise the Webex meetings of the German government. In early May, German media outlet Zeit Online revealed that threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in the German government’s implementation of the Cisco Webex software to access internal meetings.   In March, the German authorities admitted the hack by Russia-linked actors of […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2024
CNN, Paris Hilton, and Sony TikTok accounts hacked via DMs

A vulnerability in the popular video-sharing platform TikTok allowed threat actors to take over the accounts of celebrities. Threat actors exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the video-sharing platform TikTok to hijack high-profile accounts. The vulnerability resides in the direct messages feature implemented by the platform, reported Forbes. The malware spreads through direct messages within the app […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2024
RansomHub gang claims the hack of the telecommunications giant Frontier Communications

The RansomHub ransomware group added the American telecommunications company Frontier Comunications to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. The RansomHub ransomware group claimed to have stolen the information of over 2 million customers from the American telecommunications company Frontier Communications. The RansomHub group claims to have stolen 5GB of data from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2024
Cybercriminals attack banking customers in EU with V3B phishing kit – PhotoTAN and SmartID supported.

Resecurity uncovered a cybercriminal group that is providing a sophisticated phishing kit, named V3B, to target banking customers in the EU. Resecurity has uncovered a new cybercriminal group providing Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform that is equipping fraudsters with sophisticated kit (known as “V3B”) to target banking customers in the EU. “Currently, it is estimated that hundreds […]