Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2022
Norway ’s prime minister warned last week that Russia poses “a real and serious threat” to the country’s oil and gas industry. Norway ’s prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre warned that Russia poses “a real and serious threat” to the country’s oil and gas industry. The minister claims its country is going slow in adopting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2022
Researchers discovered thousands of GitHub repositories that offer fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for various flaws used to distribute malware. A team of researchers at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (Soufian El Yadmani, Robin The, Olga Gadyatskaya) discovered thousands of repositories on GitHub that offer fake proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for multiple vulnerabilities. The experts analyzed PoCs shared on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2022
Iran’s atomic energy agency claims that alleged state-sponsored hackers have compromised its email system. Iran’s atomic energy agency revealed on Sunday that a nation-state actor had access to a subsidiary’s network and free access to its email system, the Associated Press reports. The Iranian government has yet to attribute the attack to a specific The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2022
International cash and carry giant METRO suffered this week IT infrastructure outages following a cyberattack. International cash and carry giant METRO was hit by a cyberattack that caused IT infrastructure outages. Metro employs more than 95,000 people in 681 stores worldwide, most of them in Germany, its sales reached 24.8 billion euros in 2020. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2022
Wordfence researchers warn of exploitation attempts targeting the recently disclosed flaw in Apache Commons Text dubbed Text4Shell. Experts at WordPress security firm Wordfence reported exploitation attempts targeting the recently disclosed flaw in Apache Commons Text dubbed Text4Shell. GitHub’s threat analyst Alvaro Munoz this week disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42889 (CVSS score 9.8), in the open-source Apache Commons […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2022
CISA added a Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3493, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week added a Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3493, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have to address the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2022
Google launched the Graph for the Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC) project, to secure the software supply chain. Google this week launched a new project named Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC) which aims at securing the software supply chain. The IT giant is seeking contributors to the new project. “GUAC, or Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition, is in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2022
Microsoft disclosed a data leak, sensitive data of some of its customers were exposed by a misconfigured Microsoft server accessible online. Microsoft announced that sensitive data belonging to some of its customers were exposed on the Internet due to a misconfigured Microsoft server. The data leak was discovered by the security threat intelligence firm SOCRadar […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2022
While the Russian army is conducting coordinated missile and drone strikes in Ukraine experts observed Internet disruptions in the country. Starting on the morning of Monday, October 10, the Russian army is targeting several cities in Ukraine with coordinated missile and drone strikes. The escalation is a retaliation for the bombing of a bridge connecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2022
The Federal Police of Brazil arrested an individual who is suspected of being a member of the notorious LAPSUS$ extortionist group. The Federal Police of Brazil yesterday announced the arrest of an individual suspected of being linked to the LAPSUS$ extortionist gang. The authorities did not disclose info about the individual, it seems that the […]
