Counterintelligence Archives - Security Affairs

Threat actors started exploiting critical ownCloud flaw CVE-2023-49103

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International police operation dismantled a prominent Ukraine-based Ransomware group

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Daixin Team group claimed the hack of North Texas Municipal Water District

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Healthcare provider Ardent Health Services disclosed a ransomware attack

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Ukraine's intelligence service hacked Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsia

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Iranian hacker group Cyber Av3ngers hacked the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in Pennsylvania

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The hack of MSP provider CTS potentially impacted hundreds of UK law firms

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 447 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Rhysida ransomware gang claimed China Energy hack

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North Korea-linked APT Lazarus is using a MagicLine4NX zero-day flaw in supply chain attack

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Hamas-linked APT uses Rust-based SysJoker backdoor against Israel

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App used by hundreds of schools leaking children's data

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Microsoft launched its new Microsoft Defender Bounty Program

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Exposed Kubernetes configuration secrets can fuel supply chain attacks

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North Korea-linked Konni APT uses Russian-language weaponized documents

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ClearFake campaign spreads macOS AMOS information stealer

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Welltok data breach impacted 8.5 million patients in the U.S.

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North Korea-linked APT Diamond Sleet supply chain attack relies on CyberLink software

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Automotive parts giant AutoZone disclosed data breach after MOVEit hack

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New InfectedSlurs Mirai-based botnet exploits two zero-days

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SiegedSec hacktivist group hacked Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

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CISA adds Looney Tunables Linux bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Enterprise software provider TmaxSoft leaks 2TB of data

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Citrix provides additional measures to address Citrix Bleed

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Tor Project removed several relays associated with a suspicious cryptocurrency scheme

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Experts warn of a surge in NetSupport RAT attacks against education and government sectors

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The Top 5 Reasons to Use an API Management Platform

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Canadian government impacted by data breaches of two of its contractors

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Rhysida ransomware gang is auctioning data stolen from the British Library

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Russia-linked APT29 group exploited WinRAR 0day in attacks against embassies

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DarkCasino joins the list of APT groups exploiting WinRAR zero-day

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US teenager pleads guilty to his role in credential stuffing attack on a betting site

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 446 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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8Base ransomware operators use a new variant of the Phobos ransomware

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Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine

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The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman

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Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services

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CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Zimbra zero-day exploited to steal government emails by four groups

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Vietnam Post exposes 1.2TB of data, including email addresses

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Samsung suffered a new data breach

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FBI and CISA warn of attacks by Rhysida ransomware gang

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Critical flaw fixed in SAP Business One product

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Law enforcement agencies dismantled the illegal botnet proxy service IPStorm

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Gamblers’ data compromised after casino giant Strendus fails to set password

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VMware disclosed a critical and unpatched authentication bypass flaw in VMware Cloud Director Appliance

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Danish critical infrastructure hit by the largest cyber attack in Denmark's history

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Major Australian ports blocked after a cyber attack on DP World

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Nuclear and Oil & Gas are Major Targets of Ransomware Groups in 2024

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CISA adds five vulnerabilities in Juniper devices to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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LockBit ransomware gang leaked data stolen from Boeing

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North Korea-linked APT Sapphire Sleet targets IT job seekers with bogus skills assessment portals

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The Lorenz ransomware group hit Texas-based Cogdell Memorial Hospital

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The State of Maine disclosed a data breach that impacted 1.3M people

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 445 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Police seized BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform

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Serbian pleads guilty to running ‘Monopoly’ dark web drug market

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McLaren Health Care revealed that a data breach impacted 2.2 million people

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After ChatGPT, Anonymous Sudan took down the Cloudflare website

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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) suffered a ransomware attack

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SysAid zero-day exploited by Clop ransomware group

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Dolly.com pays ransom, attackers release data anyway

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DDoS attack leads to significant disruption in ChatGPT services

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Russian Sandworm disrupts power in Ukraine with a new OT attack

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Veeam fixed multiple flaws in Veeam ONE, including critical issues

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Pro-Palestinian hackers group 'Soldiers of Solomon' disrupted the production cycle of the biggest flour production plant in Israel

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Iranian Agonizing Serpens APT is targeting Israeli entities with destructive cyber attacks

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Critical Confluence flaw exploited in ransomware attacks

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QNAP fixed two critical vulnerabilities in QTS OS and apps

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Attackers use Google Calendar RAT to abuse Calendar service as C2 infrastructure

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Socks5Systemz proxy service delivered via PrivateLoader and Amadey

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US govt sanctioned a Russian woman for laundering virtual currency on behalf of threat actors

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 444 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Lazarus targets blockchain engineers with new KandyKorn macOS Malware

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Kinsing threat actors probed the Looney Tunables flaws in recent attacks

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ZDI discloses four zero-day flaws in Microsoft Exchange

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Okta customer support system breach impacted 134 customers

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Multiple WhatsApp mods spotted containing the CanesSpy Spyware

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Russian FSB arrested Russian hackers who supported Ukrainian cyber operations

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MuddyWater has been spotted targeting two Israeli entities

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Clop group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees

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Okta discloses a new data breach after a third-party vendor was hacked

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Suspected exploitation of Apache ActiveMQ flaw CVE-2023-46604 to install HelloKitty ransomware

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Boeing confirmed its services division suffered a cyberattack

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Resecurity: Insecurity of 3rd-parties leads to Aadhaar data leaks in India

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Who is behind the Mozi Botnet kill switch?

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CISA adds two F5 BIG-IP flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Threat actors actively exploit F5 BIG-IP flaws CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748

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Pro-Hamas hacktivist group targets Israel with BiBi-Linux wiper

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British Library suffers major outage due to cyberattack

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Critical Atlassian Confluence flaw can lead to significant data loss

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WiHD leak exposes details of all torrent users

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Experts released PoC exploit code for Cisco IOS XE flaw CVE-2023-20198

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Canada bans WeChat and Kaspersky apps on government-issued mobile devices

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Florida man sentenced to prison for SIM Swapping conspiracy that led to theft of $1M in cryptocurrency

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Wiki-Slack attack allows redirecting business professionals to malicious websites

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HackerOne awarded over $300 million bug hunters

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StripedFly, a complex malware that infected one million devices without being noticed

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IT Army of Ukraine disrupted internet providers in territories occupied by Russia

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 443 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Bug hunters earned $1,038,250 for 58 unique 0-days at Pwn2Own Toronto 2023

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Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from Boeing

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How to Collect Market Intelligence with Residential Proxies?

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F5 urges to address a critical flaw in BIG-IP

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Hello Alfred app exposes user data

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iLeakage attack exploits Safari to steal data from Apple devices

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Cloudflare mitigated 89 hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed DDoS attacks exceeding 100 million rps

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Seiko confirmed a data breach after BlackCat attack

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Winter Vivern APT exploited zero-day in Roundcube webmail software in recent attacks

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Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 Day 1 - organizers awarded $438,750 in prizes

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VMware addressed critical vCenter flaw also for End-of-Life products

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Citrix warns admins to patch NetScaler CVE-2023-4966 bug immediately

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New England Biolabs leak sensitive data

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Former NSA employee pleads guilty to attempted selling classified documents to Russia

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Experts released PoC exploit code for VMware Aria Operations for Logs flaw. Patch it now!

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How did the Okta Support breach impact 1Password?

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PII Belonging to Indian Citizens, Including their Aadhaar IDs, Offered for Sale on the Dark Web

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Spain police dismantled a cybercriminal group who stole the data of 4 million individuals

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CISA adds second Cisco IOS XE flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Cisco warns of a second IOS XE zero-day used to infect devices worldwide

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City of Philadelphia suffers a data breach

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SolarWinds fixed three critical RCE flaws in its Access Rights Manager product

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Don't use AI-based apps, Philippine defense ordered its personnel

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Vietnamese threat actors linked to DarkGate malware campaign

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MI5 chief warns of Chinese cyber espionage reached an unprecedented scale

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The attack on the International Criminal Court was targeted and sophisticated

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 442 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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A threat actor is selling access to Facebook and Instagram's Police Portal

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Threat actors breached Okta support system and stole customers' data

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US DoJ seized domains used by North Korean IT workers to defraud businesses worldwide

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Alleged developer of the Ragnar Locker ransomware was arrested

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CISA adds Cisco IOS XE flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Tens of thousands Cisco IOS XE devices were hacked by exploiting CVE-2023-20198

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Law enforcement operation seized Ragnar Locker group's infrastructure

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THE 11TH EDITION OF THE ENISA THREAT LANDSCAPE REPORT IS OUT!

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North Korea-linked APT groups actively exploit JetBrains TeamCity flaw

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Multiple APT groups exploited WinRAR flaw CVE-2023-38831

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Californian IT company DNA Micro leaks private mobile phone data

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Threat actors have been exploiting CVE-2023-4966 in Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway devices since August

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A flaw in Synology DiskStation Manager allows admin account takeover

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D-Link confirms data breach, but downplayed the impact

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CVE-2023-20198 zero-day widely exploited to install implants on Cisco IOS XE systems

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Russia-linked Sandworm APT compromised 11 Ukrainian telecommunications providers

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Ransomware realities in 2023: one employee mistake can cost a company millions

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Malware-laced 'RedAlert - Rocket Alerts' app targets Israeli users

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Cisco warns of active exploitation of IOS XE zero-day

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Signal denies claims of an alleged zero-day flaw in its platform

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Microsoft Defender thwarted Akira ransomware attack on an industrial engineering firm

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DarkGate malware campaign abuses Skype and Teams

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The Alphv ransomware gang stole 5TB of data from the Morrison Community Hospital

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 441 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Lockbit ransomware gang demanded an 80 million ransom to CDW

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CISA warns of vulnerabilities and misconfigurations exploited in ransomware attacks

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Stayin' Alive campaign targets high-profile Asian government and telecom entities. Is it linked to ToddyCat APT?

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FBI and CISA published a new advisory on AvosLocker ransomware

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More than 17,000 WordPress websites infected with the Balada Injector in September

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Ransomlooker, a new tool to track and analyze ransomware groups' activities

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Phishing, the campaigns that are targeting Italy

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A new Magecart campaign hides the malicious code in 404 error page

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CISA adds Adobe Acrobat Reader flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Mirai-based DDoS botnet IZ1H9 added 13 payloads to target routers

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Air Europa data breach exposed customers' credit cards

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#OpIsrael, #FreePalestine & #OpSaudiArabia - How Cyber Actors Capitalize On War Actions Via Psy-Ops

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for October 2023 fixed three actively exploited zero-day flaws

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New 'HTTP/2 Rapid Reset' technique behind record-breaking DDoS attacks

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Exposed security cameras in Israel and Palestine pose significant risks

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A flaw in libcue library impacts GNOME Linux systems

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Hacktivists in Palestine and Israel after SCADA and other industrial control systems

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Large-scale Citrix NetScaler Gateway credential harvesting campaign exploits CVE-2023-3519

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The source code of the 2020 variant of HelloKitty ransomware was leaked on a cybercrime forum

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Gaza-linked hackers and Pro-Russia groups are targeting Israel

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Flagstar Bank suffered a data breach once again

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Android devices shipped with backdoored firmware as part of the BADBOX network

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 440 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT laundered over $900 million through cross-chain crime

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QakBot threat actors are still operational after the August takedown

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Ransomware attack on MGM Resorts costs $110 Million

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Cybersecurity, why a hotline number could be important?

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Multiple experts released exploits for Linux local privilege escalation flaw Looney Tunables

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Cisco Emergency Responder is affected by a critical Static Credentials bug. Fix it immediately!

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Belgian intelligence service VSSE accused Alibaba of ‘possible espionage’ at European hub in Liege

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CISA adds JetBrains TeamCity and Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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NATO is investigating a new cyber attack claimed by the SiegedSec group

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Global CRM Provider Exposed Millions of Clients’ Files Online

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Sony sent data breach notifications to about 6,800 individuals

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Apple fixed the 17th zero-day flaw exploited in attacks

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Atlassian Confluence zero-day CVE-2023-22515 actively exploited in attacks

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A cyberattack disrupted Lyca Mobile services

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Chipmaker Qualcomm warns of three actively exploited zero-days

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DRM Report Q2 2023 - Ransomware threat landscape

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Phishing campaign targeted US executives exploiting a flaw in Indeed job search platform

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San Francisco’s transport agency exposes drivers’ parking permits and addresses

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BunnyLoader, a new Malware-as-a-Service advertised in cybercrime forums

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Exclusive: Lighting the Exfiltration Infrastructure of a LockBit Affiliate (and more)

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Two hacker groups are back in the news, LockBit 3.0 Black and BlackCat/AlphV

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European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) suffered a data breach

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WS_FTP flaw CVE-2023-40044 actively exploited in the wild

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National Logistics Portal (NLP) data leak: seaports in India were left vulnerable to takeover by hackers

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North Korea-linked Lazarus targeted a Spanish aerospace company

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Ransomware attack on Johnson Controls may have exposed sensitive DHS data

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BlackCat gang claims they stole data of 2.5 million patients of McLaren Health Care

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 439 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang hacked the hotel chain Motel One

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FBI warns of dual ransomware attacks

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Progress Software fixed two critical severity flaws in WS_FTP Server

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Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive

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A still unpatched zero-day RCE impacts more than 3.5M Exim servers

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Chinese threat actors stole around 60,000 emails from US State Department in Microsoft breach

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Misconfigured WBSC server leaks thousands of passports

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CISA adds JBoss RichFaces Framework flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Cisco urges to patch actively exploited IOS zero-day CVE-2023-20109

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Dark Angels Team ransomware group hit Johnson Controls

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GOOGLE FIXED THE FIFTH CHROME ZERO-DAY OF 2023

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Russian zero-day broker is willing to pay $20M for zero-day exploits for iPhones and Android devices

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China-linked APT BlackTech was spotted hiding in Cisco router firmware

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Watch out! CVE-2023-5129 in libwebp library affects millions applications

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DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

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'Ransomed.vc' in the Spotlight - What is Known About the Ransomware Group Targeting Sony and NTT Docomo

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Top 5 Problems Solved by Data Lineage

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Threat actors claim the hack of Sony, and the company investigates

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Canadian Flair Airlines left user data leaking for months

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The Rhysida ransomware group hit the Kuwait Ministry of Finance

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BORN Ontario data breach impacted 3.4 million newborns and pregnancy care patients

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Xenomorph malware is back after months of hiatus and expands the list of targets

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Smishing Triad Stretches Its Tentacles into the United Arab Emirates

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Crooks stole $200 million worth of assets from Mixin Network

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A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities with drone manual lures

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Alert! Patch your TeamCity instance to avoid server hack

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Is Gelsemium APT behind a targeted attack in Southeast Asian Government?

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Nigerian National pleads guilty to participating in a millionaire BEC scheme

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New variant of BBTok Trojan targets users of +40 banks in LATAM

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Deadglyph, a very sophisticated and unknown backdoor targets the Middle East

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Alphv group claims the hack of Clarion, a global manufacturer of audio and video equipment for cars

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 438 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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National Student Clearinghouse data breach impacted approximately 900 US schools

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Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack

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Recently patched Apple and Chrome zero-days exploited to infect devices in Egypt with Predator spyware

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CISA adds Trend Micro Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Information of Air Canada employees exposed in recent cyberattack

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Sandman APT targets telcos with LuaDream backdoor

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Apple rolled out emergency updates to address 3 new actively exploited zero-day flaws

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Ukrainian hackers are behind the Free Download Manager supply chain attack

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Space and defense tech maker Exail Technologies exposes database access

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Pro-Russia hacker group NoName launched a DDoS attack on Canadian airports causing severe disruptions

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Experts found critical flaws in Nagios XI network monitoring software

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The dark web drug marketplace PIILOPUOTI was dismantled by Finnish Customs

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International Criminal Court hit with a cyber attack

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GitLab addressed critical vulnerability CVE-2023-5009

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Trend Micro addresses actively exploited zero-day in Apex One and other security Products

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ShroudedSnooper threat actors target telecom companies in the Middle East

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Recent cyber attack is causing Clorox products shortage

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Earth Lusca expands its arsenal with SprySOCKS Linux malware

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Microsoft AI research division accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data

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German intelligence warns cyberattacks could target liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals

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Deepfake and smishing. How hackers compromised the accounts of 27 Retool customers in the crypto industry

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FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data

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North Korea's Lazarus APT stole almost $240 million in crypto assets since June

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Clop gang stolen data from major North Carolina hospitals

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CardX released a data leak notification impacting their customers in Thailand

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 437 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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TikTok fined €345M by Irish DPC for violating children’s privacy

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Dariy Pankov, the NLBrute malware author, pleads guilty

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Dangerous permissions detected in top Android health apps

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Caesars Entertainment paid a ransom to avoid stolen data leaks

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Free Download Manager backdoored to serve Linux malware for more than 3 years

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Lockbit ransomware gang hit the Carthage Area Hospital and the Clayton-Hepburn Medical Center in New York

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The iPhone of a Russian journalist was infected with the Pegasus spyware

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Kubernetes flaws could lead to remote code execution on Windows endpoints

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Threat actor leaks sensitive data belonging to Airbus

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A new ransomware family called 3AM appears in the threat landscape

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Redfly group infiltrated an Asian national grid as long as six months

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Mozilla fixed a critical zero-day in Firefox and Thunderbird

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Microsoft September 2023 Patch Tuesday fixed 2 actively exploited zero-day flaws

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Save the Children confirms it was hit by cyber attack

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Adobe fixed actively exploited zero-day in Acrobat and Reader

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A new Repojacking attack exposed over 4,000 GitHub repositories to hack

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MGM Resorts hit by a cyber attack

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Anonymous Sudan launched a DDoS attack against Telegram

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Iranian Charming Kitten APT targets various entities in Brazil, Israel, and the U.A.E. using a new backdoor

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GOOGLE FIXED THE FOURTH CHROME ZERO-DAY OF 2023

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CISA adds recently discovered Apple zero-days to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

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UK and US sanctioned 11 members of the Russia-based TrickBot gang

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New HijackLoader malware is rapidly growing in popularity in the cybercrime community

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Some of TOP universities wouldn’t pass cybersecurity exam: left websites vulnerable

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Evil Telegram campaign: Trojanized Telegram apps found on Google Play

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Rhysida Ransomware gang claims to have hacked three more US hospitals

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Akamai prevented the largest DDoS attack on a US financial company

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 436 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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US CISA added critical Apache RocketMQ flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Ragnar Locker gang leaks data stolen from the Israel's Mayanei Hayeshua hospital

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North Korea-linked threat actors target cybersecurity experts with a zero-day

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Zero-day in Cisco ASA and FTD is actively exploited in ransomware attacks

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Zero-days fixed by Apple were used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware

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Apple discloses 2 new actively exploited zero-day flaws in iPhones, Macs

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A malvertising campaign is delivering a new version of the macOS Atomic Stealer

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Two flaws in Apache SuperSet allow to remotely hack servers

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Chinese cyberspies obtained Microsoft signing key from Windows crash dump due to a mistake

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Google addressed an actively exploited zero-day in Android

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A zero-day in Atlas VPN Linux Client leaks users' IP address

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MITRE and CISA release Caldera for OT attack emulation

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ASUS routers are affected by three critical remote code execution flaws

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Hackers stole $41M worth of crypto assets from crypto gambling firm Stake

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Freecycle data breach impacted 7 Million users

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Meta disrupted two influence campaigns from China and Russia

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A massive DDoS attack took down the site of the German financial agency BaFin

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"Smishing Triad" Targeted USPS and US Citizens for Data Theft

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University of Sydney suffered a security breach caused by a third-party service provider

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Cybercrime will cost Germany $224 billion in 2023

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PoC exploit code released for CVE-2023-34039 bug in VMware Aria Operations for Networks

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 435 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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LockBit ransomware gang hit the Commission des services electriques de Montréal (CSEM)

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UNRAVELING EternalBlue: inside the WannaCry’s enabler

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Researchers released a free decryptor for the Key Group ransomware

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Fashion retailer Forever 21 data breach impacted +500,000 individuals

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Russia-linked hackers target Ukrainian military with Infamous Chisel Android malware

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Akira Ransomware gang targets Cisco ASA without Multi-Factor Authentication

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Paramount Global disclosed a data breach

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National Safety Council data leak: Credentials of NASA, Tesla, DoJ, Verizon, and 2K others leaked by workplace safety organization

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Abusing Windows Container Isolation Framework to avoid detection by security products

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Critical RCE flaw impacts VMware Aria Operations Networks

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UNC4841 threat actors hacked US government email servers exploiting Barracuda ESG flaw

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Hackers infiltrated Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC) for months

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FIN8-linked actor targets Citrix NetScaler systems

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Japan's JPCERT warns of new 'MalDoc in PDF' attack technique

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Attackers can discover IP address by sending a link over the Skype mobile app

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Cisco fixes 3 high-severity DoS flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software

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Cloud and hosting provider Leaseweb took down critical systems after a cyber attack

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Crypto investor data exposed by a SIM swapping attack against a Kroll employee

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China-linked Flax Typhoon APT targets Taiwan

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Researchers released PoC exploit for Ivanti Sentry flaw CVE-2023-38035

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Resecurity identified a zero-day vulnerability in Schneider Electric Accutech Manager

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Counterintelligence

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2014

Disconcerting Report on cybersecurity for US Government entities

A report issued by The Federal Government’s Track Record provides a scaring picture on cybersecurity for US Government entities. The US Government is a privileged target for cybercriminals, state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists, for years now, officials and politicians have warned of the risks related to a cyber attack. Leon Panetta, former Director of the Central […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2014

US Intelligence warns on Counterintelligence and cyber espionage

Intelligence officials now view the threat from counterintelligence, foreign spying and the leaking, as the No. 2 danger facing the country. Top U.S. Intelligence officials released a new Worldwide Threat Assessment Report during a Senate hearing last week, they highlighted the top risks to national security. Let’s give a look to the list, cybersecurity is still perceived […]