Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2023
GST Invoice Billing Inventory, a business accounting app for small and medium businesses with over 1M downloads has left a database open, exposing sensitive personal and corporate data up for grabs. The popular and reputable GST Invoice Billing Inventory (previously known as Book Keeper) app is one of the thousands of apps on the Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2023
The U.S. CISA warns that threat actors are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion to breach government agencies. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning about threat actors actively exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-26360) in Adobe ColdFusion to breach government agencies. The flaw is an Improper Access Control that can allow […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2023
ENISA published the ENISA Threat Landscape for DoS Attacks report to bring new insights to the DoS threat landscape. Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks pose a persistent and significant security risk for organizations. Over the past few years, threat actors have increasingly had access to cost-effective and efficient means and services to carry out such kinds of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2023
Google fixed a critical zero-click RCE vulnerability (CVE-2023-40088) with the release of the December 2023 Android security updates. Google December 2023 Android security updates addressed 85 vulnerabilities, including a critical zero-click remote code execution (RCE) flaw tracked as CVE-2023-40088. The vulnerability resides in Android’s System component, it doesn’t require additional privileges to be triggered. An […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2023
Microsoft warns of ongoing malvertising attacks using the DanaBot malware to deploy the CACTUS ransomware. Microsoft uncovered ongoing malvertising attacks using the DanaBot Trojan (Storm-1044) to deploy the CACTUS ransomware. Microsoft the campaign to the ransomware operator Storm-0216 (Twisted Spider, UNC2198). Storm-0216 has historically used Qakbot malware for initial access, but has switched to other […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2023
The LockBit ransomware attack on the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China demonstrates the weakness of global financial system to cyberattacks. The ransomware breach that crippled U.S. Treasury trading operations at an American subsidiary of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. on November 8 has laid bare the vulnerability of the global financial system […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2023
Zyxel addressed tens of vulnerabilities that expose users to cyber attacks, including command injection and authentication bypass. Taiwanese vendor Zyxel addressed tens of vulnerabilities in its firewalls and access points. The addressed issues are tracked as CVE-2023-35136, CVE-2023-35139, CVE-2023-37925, CVE-2023-37926, CVE-2023-4397, CVE-2023-4398, CVE-2023-5650, CVE-2023-5797, CVE-2023-5960. Threat actors can exploit the vulnerabilities to steal cookies, access configuration files, carry out command injection and denial-of-service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2023
WeMystic, a website on astrology, numerology, tarot, and spiritual orientation, left an open database exposing 34GB of sensitive data about the platforms’ users. Telling the future is a tricky business, and failure to foretell your own mishaps doesn’t help. The content platform WeMystic is a good example of this, with the Cybernews research team discovering […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2023
The popular cybersecurity researcher Patrick Wardle dissected the new macOS ransomware Turtle used to target Apple devices. The popular cyber security researcher Patrick Wardle published a detailed analysis of the new macOS ransomware Turtle. Wardle pointed out that since Turtle was uploaded on Virus Total, it was labeled as malicious by 24 anti-malware solutions, suggesting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2023
The Black Basta ransomware gang infected over 300 victims accumulating ransom payments exceeding $100 million since early 2022. The Black Basta ransomware group has been active since April 2022, like other ransomware operations, it implements a double-extortion attack model. Â A joint research by Elliptic and Corvus Insurance revealed that the group accumulated at least […]
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