Cybersecurity

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2022
Google announced the completion of the acquisition of Mandiant for $5.4 billion

Google completed the acquisition of the threat intelligence firm Mandiant, the IT giant will pay $5.4 billion. Google announced the completion of the $5.4 billion acquisition of threat intelligence firm Mandiant. The acquisition was announced in March 2022 by both companies: “RESTON, Va., March 8, 2022 – Mandiant, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNDT) today announced that it has entered into […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2022
ENISA released the Threat Landscape Methodology

I’m proud to announce that the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA, has released the Threat Landscape Methodology. Policy makers, risk managers and information security practitioners need up-to-date and accurate information on the current threat landscape, supported by threat intelligence. The EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) Threat Landscape report has been published on an annual […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2022
Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested 9 men behind phishing attacks on Ukrainians attempting to capitalize on the ongoing conflict

The Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested nine members of a cybercriminal gang that has stolen 100 million hryvnias via phishing attacks. The Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested nine members of a cybercriminal organization that stole 100 million hryvnias via phishing attacks. The crooks created more than 400 phishing sites for obtaining the banking data of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2022
Italy announced its National Cybersecurity Strategy 2022/26

Italy announced its National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2022/26, a crucial document to address cyber threats and increase the resilience of the country. Italy presented its National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2022/26 and reinforce the government’s commitment to addressing cyber threats and increasing the resilience of the country to cyber attacks. The strategy is aligned with the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2022
Ukraine CERT-UA warns of new attacks launched by Russia-linked Armageddon APT

Ukraine Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) reported a phishing campaign conducted by Armageddon APT using GammaLoad.PS1_v2 malware. Ukraine Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) reported a phishing campaign using messages with subject “On revenge in Kherson!” and containing the “Plan Kherson.htm” attachment. The HTM-file will decode and create an archive named “Herson.rar”, which contains a file-shortcut […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2022
EU condemns Russian cyber operations against Ukraine

The European Union condemns the cyberattacks conducted by Russia against Ukraine, which targeted the satellite KA-SAT network. The European Union accused Russia of the cyberattack that hit the satellite KA-SAT network in Ukraine, operated by Viasat, on February 24. This cyberattack caused communication outages and disruptions in Ukraine, it also impacted several EU Member States. 5,800 […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2022
Experts uncovered a new wave of attacks conducted by Mustang Panda

China-linked Mustang Panda APT group targets entities in Asia, the European Union, Russia, and the US in a new wave of attacks. In February 2022, Cisco Talos researchers started observing China-linked cyberespionage group Mustang Panda conducting phishing attacks against European entities, including Russian organizations. The attacks were also reported by Google’s TAG team, which confirmed they were for […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2022
Vulnerable Docker Installations Are A Playhouse for Malware Attacks

Uptycs researchers identified ongoing malicious campaigns through our Docker honeypot targeting exposed Docker API. The Uptycs Threat Research team has identified ongoing malicious campaigns through our Docker honeypot targeting exposed Docker API port 2375. The attacks are related to crypto miners and reverse shells on the vulnerable servers using base64-encoded commands in the cmdline, built […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2022
Google addresses actively exploited Android flaw in the kernel

Google released the May security bulletin for Android, 2022-05-05 security patch level, which fixed an actively exploited Linux kernel flaw. Google has released the second part of the May Security Bulletin for Android, which includes a fix for an actively exploited Linux kernel vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-22600. The CVE-2021-22600 is a privilege escalation issue that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2022
F5 warns its customers of tens of flaws in its products

Cybersecurity provider F5 released security patches to address tens of vulnerabilities affecting its products. Security and application delivery solutions provider F5 released its security notification to inform customers that it has released security updates from tens of vulnerabilities in its products. The company addressed a total of 43 vulnerabilities, the most severe one is a critical […]