Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2023
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. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2023
The WormGPT case: How Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can improve the capabilities of cybercriminals and allows them to launch sophisticated attacks. Researchers from SlashNext warn of the dangers related to a new generative AI cybercrime tool dubbed WormGPT. Since chatbots like ChatGPT made the headlines, cybersecurity experts warned of potential abuses of Generative artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2023
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2023
A new malware dubbed AVrecon targets small office/home office (SOHO) routers, it infected over 70,000 devices from 20 countries. Lumen Black Lotus Labs uncovered a long-running hacking campaign targeting SOHO routers with a strain of malware dubbed AVrecon. The malware was spotted the first time in May 2021, but has been operating under the radar for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2023
Citrix fixed a critical flaw affecting the Secure Access client for Ubuntu that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. Citrix addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-24492 (CVSS score of 9.6), affecting the Secure Access client for Ubuntu that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2023
Resecurity identified the emergence of adversarial mobile Android-based Antidetect Tooling for Mobile OS-Based Fraud. Resecurity has identified the emergence of adversarial mobile Android-based tools (called “mobile anti-detects”), like Enclave and McFly, as a new frontier in fraud tradecraft evolution. These tools are used by criminals involved in online-banking theft to impersonate compromised account holders and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2023
A zero-day vulnerability in the Revolut payment systems allowed threat actors to steal more than $20 million in early 2022. In early 2022, threat actors exploited a zero-day flaw in Revolut payment systems to steal more than $20 million, reported the Financial Times quoting multiple unnamed sources. The issue resulted from differences between American and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2023
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Google addressed 3 actively exploited flaws in Android Iran-linked APT TA453 targets Windows and macOS systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2023
A man from Tracy, California, has been charged with a computer attack on the Discovery Bay water treatment facility. Rambler Gallo (53), a man from Tracy (California) has been charged with intentionally causing damage to a computer after he allegedly breached the network of the Discovery Bay Water Treatment Facility. The man targeted the water […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2023
CISA and the FBI warned today of a new Truebot variant employed in attacks against organizations in the United States and Canada. A new variant of the Truebot malware was used in attacks against organizations in the United States and Canada. Threat actors compromised target networks by exploiting a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in […]
