Security

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2023
ALPHV/BlackCat and Clop gangs claim to have hacked cosmetics giant Estée Lauder

The American cosmetics giant company Estée Lauder was hacked by two distinct ransomware groups, the ALPHV/BlackCat and Clop gangs. Yesterday the cybersecurity expert @sonoclaudio first alerted me about a strange circumstance, two ransomware actors, ALPHV/BlackCat and Clop, claim to have hacked the cosmetics giant company Estée Lauder and added the company to their Tor leak […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2023
Adobe out-of-band update addresses an actively exploited ColdFusion zero-day

Adobe released an emergency update to address critical vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, including an actively exploited zero-day. Adobe released an out-of-band update to address critical and moderate vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, including a zero-day flaw that is actively exploited in attacks.  The vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution and security feature bypass. The impacted ColdFusion versions are 2023, 2021 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2023
US Gov adds surveillance firms Cytrox and Intellexa to Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits

The U.S. government added surveillance technology vendors Cytrox and Intellexa to an economic blocklist for trafficking in cyber exploits. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added surveillance technology vendors Intellexa and Cytrox to the Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems. The Entity List maintained […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2023
Citrix warns of actively exploited zero-day in ADC and Gateway

Citrix is warning customers of an actively exploited critical vulnerability in NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway. Citrix is warning customers of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3519 (CVSS score: 9.8), in NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway that is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3519 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a code injection that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2023
FIA World Endurance Championship driver passports leaked

Le Mans Endurance Management, operating the FIA World Endurance Championship’s website, exposed the data of hundreds of drivers by leaking their IDs and drivers’ licenses, the Cybernews research team has discovered. On June 16th, our researchers came across two misconfigured, meaning publicly exposed, Google Cloud Storage buckets. Both combined, they contained over 1.1 million files. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2023
Virustotal data leak exposed data of some registered customers, including intelligence members

The online malware scanning service VirusTotal leaked data associated with some registered customers, German newspapers reported. German newspapers Der Spiegel and Der Standard reported that the online malware scanning service VirusTotal leaked data associated with some registered customers. At the end of June, a small file of 313 kilobytes containing a list of 5,600 names was exposed online. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2023
FIN8 Group spotted delivering the BlackCat Ransomware

The cybercrime group FIN8 is using a revamped version of the Sardonic backdoor to deliver the BlackCat ransomware. The financially motivated group FIN8 (aka Syssphinx) was spotted using a revamped version of a backdoor tracked as Sardonic to deliver the BlackCat ransomware (aka Noberus ransomware). Sardonic is a sophisticated backdoor that supports a wide range of features that was designed […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2023
Adobe warns customers of a critical ColdFusion RCE exploited in attacks

Adobe is warning customers of a critical ColdFusion pre-authentication RCE bug, tracked as CVE-2023-29300, which is actively exploited. Adobe warns customers of a critical ColdFusion pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29300 (CVSS score 9.8), that is actively exploited in attacks in the wild. “Adobe is aware that CVE-2023-29300 has been exploited in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2023
Cisco fixed a critical flaw in SD-WAN vManage

Cisco warns of a critical unauthenticated REST API access vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20214, impacting its SD-WAN vManage. Cisco addressed a critical unauthenticated REST API access vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20214 (CVSS Score 9.1), impacting its SD-WAN vManage. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to gain read permissions or limited write permissions to the configuration […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2023
Pompompurin, the BreachForums owner, pleads guilty to hacking charges and possession of child pornography

The owner of the BreachForums Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, pleads guilty to hacking charges. The owner of the BreachForums Conor Brian Fitzpatrick agrees to plead guilty to a three-count criminal information charging the defendant with conspiracy to commit access device fraud, solicitation for the purpose of offering access devices, and possession of child pornography. […]