Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2022
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns healthcare organizations of Royal ransomware attacks. The human-operated Royal ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in September 2022, it has demanded ransoms up to millions of dollars. The Health and Human Services (HHS) is aware of attacks against the Healthcare and Public Healthcare (HPH) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2022
Google is going to pay $391.5 million to settle with 40 states in the U.S. for secretly collecting personal location data. Google has agreed to pay $391.5 million to settle with 40 US states for misleading users about the collection of personal location data. The settlement is the largest attorney general-led consumer privacy settlement ever, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2022
Microsoft warns of an uptick among threat actors increasingly using publicly-disclosed zero-day exploits in their attacks. According to the Digital Defense Report published by Microsoft, threat actors are increasingly leveraging publicly-disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities to target organizations worldwide. The researchers noticed a reduction in the time between the announcement of a vulnerability and the commoditization of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2022
I’m proud to announce the release of the 10th edition of the ENISA Threat Landscape (ETL) on the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. The Europen Agency for cybersecurity ENISA releases its ENISA Threat Landscape 2022 (ETL) report, which is the annual analysis of the state of the cybersecurity threat landscape. This is the 10th edition of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2022
Ransomware activity report: Threat actors are selling access to hundreds of organizations, with a cumulative requested price of around $4M. Research published by threat intelligence firm KELA related to ransomware activity in Q3 reveals a stable activity in the sector of initial access sales, but experts observed a rise in the value of the offerings. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2022
North Korea-linked threat actor UNC4034 is spreading tainted versions of the PuTTY SSH and Telnet client. In July 2022, Mandiant identified a novel spear phish methodology that was employed by North Korea-linked threat actor UNC4034. The attackers are spreading tainted versions of the PuTTY SSH and Telnet client. The attack chain starts with a fake […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2022
A group of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered malicious plugins on tens of thousands of WordPress sites. A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has analyzed the backups of more than 400,000 unique web servers and discovered 47,337 malicious plugins installed on 24,931 unique WordPress websites. The experts studied […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2022
I’m proud to announce the release of the “ENISA THREAT LANDSCAPE FOR RANSOMWARE ATTACKS” report, Enjoy it! Ransomware has become one of the most dangerous threats for organizations worldwide. Cybercriminal organizations and ransomware gangs have devised new business models that are attracting a broad range of advanced threat actors. It is quite easy today for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2022
ENISA published a report that includes anonymised and aggregated information about major telecom security incidents in 2021. ENISA published a report that provides anonymized and aggregated information about major telecom security incidents in 2021. Every European telecom operator that suffers a security incident, notifies its national authorities which share a summary of these reports to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2022
US authorities have issued a joint advisory warning of North Korea-linked APTs using Maui ransomware in attacks against the Healthcare sector. The FBI, CISA, and the U.S. Treasury Department issued a joint advisory that warn of North-Korea-linked threat actors using Maui ransomware in attacks aimed at organizations in the Healthcare sector. “The Federal Bureau of […]
