Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2023
Resecurity warns about the increase of malicious cyber activity targeting data center service providers globally. According to the detailed report recently released by the California-based cybersecurity company, during September 2021, Resecurity notified several data center organizations about malicious cyber activity targeting them and their customers. Such organizations act as a critical part of the enterprise […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2023
Social engineering techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are exploiting multiple emerging means, such as deep fakes. The increasing use of videoconferencing platforms and the various forms of remote work also adopted in the post-emergency covid make interpersonal collaborations increasingly virtual. This scenario must undoubtedly force organizations to prepare adequately to be able to recognize […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2023
The LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked Aguas do Porto, a Portuguese municipal water utility company. The LockBit ransomware gang claims to have hacked Aguas do Porto, a Portuguese municipal water utility company, and is threatening to leak the stolen data. Aguas do Porto is a municipal water utility company that manages the full […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2023
Atlassian discloses a data leak that was caused by the theft of employee credentials which was used to steal data from a third-party vendor. A group of hackers called SiegedSec recently published on its Telegram channel a JSON file containing data belonging to thousands of Atlassian employees and floor plans for two of the company’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 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. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Twitter will allow using the SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA) only to its Blue subscribers GoDaddy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2023
During the second half of 2022, a variant of the Mirai bot, tracked as V3G4, targeted IoT devices by exploiting tens of flaws. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers reported that a Mirai variant called V3G4 was attempting to exploit several flaws to infect IoT devices from July to December 2022. Below is the list […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2023
ESXiArgs ransomware continues to spread in Europe, most of the recent infections were observed in France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and Ukraine Researchers from Censys reported that more than 500 hosts have been infected in a new wave of ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, most of which are in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.K.. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2023
Talos researchers observed a financially motivated threat actor using a new ransomware dubbed MortalKombat and a clipper malware named Laplas. Since December 2022, Cisco Talos researchers have been observing an unidentified financially motivated threat actor deploying two new malware, the recently discovered MortalKombat ransomware and a GO variant of the Laplas Clipper malware. The threat actor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2023
The City of Oakland has declared a local state of emergency due to the effect of the ransomware attack that hit the city on February 8, 2023. The City of Oakland disclosed last week a ransomware attack, the security breach began on February 8, 2023. In an abundance of caution, the City of Oakland has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2023
Adobe Patch Tuesday addressed multiple vulnerabilities, including critical issues that expose Windows and macOS to hack. Adobe released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects for both Windows and macOS users. Adobe addressed four critical issues (CVE-2022-24094, CVE-2022-24095, CVE-2022-24096, and CVE-2022-24097) affecting the After Effects products, successful exploitation could lead […]
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