Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2023
Andrey Shevlyakov, an Estonian national, was charged in the US with conspiracy and other charges related to acquiring U.S.-made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. The defendant was arrested in Estonia on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2023
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) is warning of the North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO group that is targeting government and military personnel, think tanks, policy makers, academics, and researchers in South Korea, the US and elsewhere. Google experts are tracking ARCHIPELAGO since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2023
Files leaked by Russian IT contractor NTC Vulkan show that Russia-linked Sandworm APT requested it to develop offensive tools. Documents leaked from Russian IT contractor NTC Vulkan show it was likely involved in the development of offensive tools. The documents demonstrate that it also developed hacking tools for the Russia-linked APT group Sandworm. The Sandworm group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2023
Russian hacking group Winter Vivern has been actively exploiting Zimbra flaws to steal the emails of NATO and diplomats. A Russian hacking group, tracked as Winter Vivern (aka TA473), has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-27926) in unpatched Zimbra instances to gain access to the emails of NATO officials, governments, military personnel, and diplomats. The CVE-2022-27926 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2023
Exatrack researchers warn of an unknown China-linked hacking group that has been linked to a new Linux malware, dubbed MĂ©lofĂ©e. Cybersecurity researchers from ExaTrack recently discovered a previously undetected malware family, dubbed MĂ©lofĂ©e, targeting Linux servers. The researchers linked with high-confidence this malware to China-linked APT groups, in particular the Winnti group. The MĂ©lofĂ©e malware includes a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2023
OpenAI addressed multiple severe vulnerabilities in the popular chatbot ChatGPT that could have been exploited to take over accounts. OpenAI addressed multiple severe vulnerabilities in ChatGPT that could have allowed attackers to take over user accounts and view chat histories. One of the issues was a “Web Cache Deception” vulnerability reported by the bug bounty […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2023
Intezer researchers reported that a South Asian espionage group, tracked as Bitter, is targeting the Chinese nuclear energy industry. Intezer researchers uncovered a cyberespionage campaign targeting the Chinese nuclear energy sector, they linked it to the Bitter APT group. The Bitter APT group is a South Asian cyberespionage group active since at least 2021. The group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2023
Researchers reported that China-linked hackers targeted telecommunication providers in the Middle East in the first quarter of 2023. In the first quarter of 2023, SentinelLabs researchers spotted the initial phases of attacks against telecommunication providers in the Middle East. According to the researchers, the activity is part of the Operation Soft Cell that was first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2023
Threat actors are targeting organizations located in Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a malware campaign aimed at infecting government, agriculture and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions with a previously undetected framework dubbed CommonMagic. Researchers believe that threat actors use spear […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2023
Experts warn that 55 zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited in attacks carried out by ransomware and cyberespionage groups in 2022. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant reported that ransomware and cyberespionage groups exploited 55 zero-day flaws in attacks in the wild. Most of the zero-day vulnerabilities were in software from Microsoft, Google, and Apple. The figures show a decrease […]
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