Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2025
Attackers chained Craft CMS zero-days attacks in the wild

Orange Cyberdefense’s CSIRT reported that threat actors exploited two vulnerabilities in Craft CMS to breach servers and steal data. Orange Cyberdefense’s CSIRT warns that threat actors chained two Craft CMS vulnerabilities in recent attacks. Orange experts discovered the flaws while investigating a server compromise. The two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-32432 and CVE-2024-58136, are respectively a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2025
Storm-1977 targets education sector with password spraying, Microsoft warns

Microsoft warns that threat actor Storm-1977 is behind password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Storm-1977, using AzureChecker.exe to launch password spray attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. AzureChecker.exe connected to sac-auth[.]nodefunction[.]vip to download AES-encrypted data, which, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2025
JPCERT warns of DslogdRAT malware deployed in Ivanti Connect Secure

Researchers identified a new malware, named DslogdRAT, deployed after exploiting a now-patched flaw in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS). JPCERT/CC researchers reported that a new malware, dubbed DslogdRAT, and a web shell were deployed by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability during attacks on Japanese organizations in December 2024. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0282 (CVSS score: 9.0), is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2025
SAP NetWeaver zero-day allegedly exploited by an initial access broker

A zero-day in SAP NetWeaver is potentially being exploited, putting thousands of internet-facing applications at risk. Researchers warn that a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-31324 (CVSS score of 10/10), in SAP NetWeaver is potentially being exploited. Thousands of internet-facing applications are potentially at risk. The flaw in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Metadata Uploader stems from a lack […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2025
Operation SyncHole: Lazarus APT targets supply chains in South Korea

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group targeted at least six firms in South Korea in a cyber espionage campaign called Operation SyncHole. Kaspersky researchers reported that the North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus targeted at least six firms in South Korea in a cyber espionage campaign tracked as Operation SyncHole. The campaign has been active since at […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2025
Crooks exploit the death of Pope Francis

Crooks exploit the death of Pope Francis, using public curiosity and emotion to launch scams and spread malware, an old tactic during global events. After Pope Francis’ death, cybercriminals launched scams and malware attacks, exploiting public curiosity, grief, and confusion. Cybercriminals are ready to exploit any event of global interest, it has already happened in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2025
Crypto mining campaign targets Docker environments with new evasion technique

New malware campaign targets Docker environments using unknown methods to secretly mine cryptocurrency, researchers warn. Researchers from Darktrace and Cado Security have spotted a malware campaign that targets Docker environments with a novel technique to mine cryptocurrency. The malware campaign targets Docker environments to deploy a malicious node connected to Teneo, a decentralized infrastructure network. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2025
The popular xrpl.js Ripple cryptocurrency library was compromised in a supply chain attack

The xrpl.js Ripple cryptocurrency library was compromised in a supply chain attack aimed at stealing users’ private keys. Threat actors compromised the Ripple cryptocurrency npm JavaScript library xrpl.js to harvest users’ private keys. xrpl.js is the recommended library for integrating a JavaScript/TypeScript app with the XRP, it has more than 140.000 weekly downloads. Hundreds of thousands of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2025
British retailer giant Marks & Spencer (M&S) is managing a cyber incident

Marks & Spencer (M&S) confirmed it’s managing a cyber incident after multiple customer complaints surfaced on social media. Marks and Spencer Group plc (M&S) announced it has been managing a cyber incident in recent days with the help of external cyber security experts. Customers report outages affecting card payments, gift cards, and M&S’s Click and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2025
Chinese Cybercriminals Released Z-NFC Tool for Payment Fraud

Cybercriminals leverage NFC fraud against ATMs and POS terminals, stealing money from consumers at scale. Resecurity (USA) investigated multiple incidents identified in Q1 2025, exceeding several million dollars in damages for one of the top Fortune 100 financial institutions in the United States due to NFC fraud. Stopping cybercriminals operating from China presents significant challenges […]