Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2025
A cyberattack briefly disrupted South African Airways’ website, app, and systems, but core flight operations remained unaffected. South African Airways (SAA) is the national flag carrier of South Africa, the airline is wholly owned by the South African government and has subsidiaries including SAA Technical and Air Chefs. A cyberattack hit South African Airways, briefly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2025
Lockbit ransomware group has been compromised, attackers stole and leaked data contained in the backend infrastructure of their dark web site. Hackers compromised the dark web leak site of the LockBit ransomware gang and defaced it, posting a message and a link to the dump of the MySQL database of its backend affiliate panel. “Don’t […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2025
The Play ransomware gang exploited a high-severity Windows Common Log File System flaw in zero-day attacks to deploy malware. The Play ransomware gang has exploited a Windows Common Log File System flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-29824, in zero-day attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges and deploy malware on compromised systems. The vulnerability CVE-2025-29824, (CVSS score of 7.8) is a Use after […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2025
Threat actors launch second wave of attacks on SAP NetWeaver, exploiting webshells from a recent zero-day vulnerability. In April, ReliaQuest researchers warned that a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-31324 (CVSS score of 10/10), in SAP NetWeaver is potentially being exploited. Thousands of internet-facing applications are potentially at risk. The flaw in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Metadata Uploader […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2025
Resecurity found a new smishing kit called ‘Panda Shop,’ mimicking Smishing Triad tactics with improved features and new templates. Resecurity (USA) was the first company to identify the Smishing Triad, a group of Chinese cybercriminals targeting consumers across the globe. In August 2023, our team was able to identify their activity and locate the smishing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2025
Kelly Benefits has determined that the impact of the recently disclosed data breach is much bigger than initially believed. Benefits and payroll solutions firm Kelly & Associates Insurance Group, aka Kelly Benefits, announced that the impact of a recently disclosed data breach is much bigger than initially estimated. The U.S.-based company provides benefits, payroll, and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2025
Supply chain attack via 21 backdoored Magento extensions hit 500–1,000 e-stores, including a $40B multinational. Sansec researchers reported that multiple vendors were hacked in a coordinated supply chain attack, the experts discovered that a backdoor was hidden in 21 applications. Curiously, the malicious code was injected 6 years ago, but the supply chain attack was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2025
A 36-year-old Yemeni man behind Black Kingdom ransomware is indicted in the U.S. for 1,500 attacks on Microsoft Exchange servers. U.S. authorities have indicted Rami Khaled Ahmed (aka “Black Kingdom,” of Sana’a, Yemen), a 36-year-old Yemeni national, suspected of being the administrator of the Black Kingdom ransomware operation. He is believed to have carried out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2025
Researchers found 3 malicious Go modules with hidden code that can download payloads to wipe a Linux system’s main disk, making it unbootable. The malicious modules contain obfuscated code to fetch next-stage payloads that can wipe a Linux system’s primary disk and make it unbootable. “Socket’s Threat Research Team uncovered a stealthy and highly destructive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2025
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