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Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet MaliBot Android Banking Trojan […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2022
Security researchers released PoC exploit code for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. Horizon3 security researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit and technical analysis for the critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-22972 affecting multiple VMware products. The virtualization giant recently warned that a threat actor can exploit the CVE-2022-22972 flaw (CVSSv3 base score of 9.8) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2022
An unknown APT group is targeting Russian government entities since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Researchers from Malwarebytes observed an unknown Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group targeting Russian government entities with at least four separate spear-phishing campaigns since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The threat actors behind the attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2022
Interpol Secretary warns that nation-state malware will become available on the cybercrime underground in a couple of years. Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock declared that nation-state malwre will become available on the darknet in a couple of years. In the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the malware developed by both nation-state actors and non […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2022
The U.S. Justice Department accused a 55-year-old Venezuelan cardiologist of operating and selling the Thanos ransomware. The U.S. Justice Department accused Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez, a 55-year-old cardiologist from Venezuela, of operating and selling the Thanos ransomware. Thanos ransomware (a.k.a. Hakbit ransomware) has been developed by Nosophoros (aka Aesculapius, and Nebuchadnezzar), a threat actor offering for sale the malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2022
A sophisticated cyberespionage campaign, dubbed Operation CuckooBees, conducted by the China-linked Winnti group remained undetected since at least 2019. Researchers from Cybereason uncovered a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign, dubbed Operation CuckooBees, aimed at stealing intellectual property from the victims. The campaign flew under the radar since at least 2019, it was attributed by the experts to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. U.S. Gov believes North Korea-linked Lazarus APT is behind Ronin Validator cyber heist The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. A DDoS attack took down Finnish govt sites as Ukraine’s President addresses MPs SharkBot […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2022
This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the previous weeks: March 18 – China-linked threat actors are targeting the government of Ukraine Google’s TAG team revealed that China-linked APT groups are targeting Ukraine […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. EU and US agencies warn that Russia could attack satellite communications networks Avoslocker ransomware […]
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