Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2023
Pro-Russia hacker group NoName launched a DDoS attack on Canadian airports causing severe disruptions

Pro-Russia hacker group NoName is suspected to have launched a cyberattack that caused border checkpoint outages at several Canadian airports. A massive DDoS cyber attack, likely carried out by Pro-Russia hacker group NoName, severely impacted operations at several Canadian airports last week, reported Recorded Future News. Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) was able to mitigate […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2023
The dark web drug marketplace PIILOPUOTI was dismantled by Finnish Customs

Finnish police announced the takedown of the dark web marketplace PIILOPUOTI which focuses on the sale of illegal narcotics. Finnish Customs announced the seizure of the dark web marketplace Piilopuoti as part of an international law enforcement operation. The dark web marketplace PIILOPUOTI has been active since May 18, 2022. “The site operated as a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2023
International Criminal Court hit with a cyber attack

A cyberattack hit the International Criminal Court (ICC) disclosed a cyberattack this week, its systems were compromised last week. The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced that threat actors have breached its systems last week. The experts at the International Criminal Court discovered the intrusion after having detected anomalous activity affecting its information systems. The International […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2023
Trend Micro addresses actively exploited zero-day in Apex One and other security Products

Trend Micro addressed a zero-day code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-41179) in Apex One that has been actively exploited in the wild. Trend Micro has released security updates to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-41179, impacting endpoint security products, including Apex One, Apex One SaaS, and Worry-Free Business Security products.  According to the security […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2023
ShroudedSnooper threat actors target telecom companies in the Middle East

ShroudedSnooper threat actors are targeting telecommunication service providers in the Middle East with a backdoor called HTTPSnoop. Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered a new stealthy implant dubbed HTTPSnoop that was employed in attacks against telecommunications providers in the Middle East. The HTTPSnoop backdoor supports novel techniques to interface with Windows HTTP kernel drivers and devices […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2023
12,000 Juniper SRX firewalls and EX switches vulnerable to CVE-2023-36845

Researchers discovered approximately 12,000 Juniper SRX firewalls and EX switches vulnerable to a recently disclosed CVE-2023-36845 RCE flaw. VulnCheck researchers discovered approximately 12,000 internet-exposed Juniper SRX firewalls and EX switches that are vulnerable to the recently disclosed remote code execution flaw CVE-2023-36845. In mid-August, Juniper addressed four medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-36844, CVE-2023-36845, CVE-2023-36846, CVE-2023-36847) impacting […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2023
Earth Lusca expands its arsenal with SprySOCKS Linux malware

China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca used a new Linux malware dubbed SprySOCKS in a recent cyber espionage campaign. Researchers from Trend Micro, while monitoring the activity of the China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca, discovered an encrypted file hosted on a server under the control of the group. Additional analysis led to the discovery of a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023
German intelligence warns cyberattacks could target liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals

The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service warns of state-sponsored attacks aimed at liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the country. Bruno Kahl, the President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst intelligence service since 2016, warned of state-sponsored attacks aimed at liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the country. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the German government […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023
Deepfake and smishing. How hackers compromised the accounts of 27 Retool customers in the crypto industry

Software development company Retool was the victim of a smishing attack that resulted in the compromise of 27 accounts of its cloud customers. Software development company Retool revealed that 27 accounts of its cloud customers were compromised as a result of an SMS-based social engineering attack. The company states that one of its employees was […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023
FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data

Researchers from vx-underground reported that FBI hacker ‘USDoD‘ leaked sensitive data from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion. TransUnion is an American consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries, including “200 million files profiling nearly every credit-active consumer in the United States”. A threat actor who […]