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Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 428 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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 09, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 427 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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 04, 2023
MOVEit attack on Aon exposed data of the staff at the Dublin Airport

Personal data of the personnel at the Dublin Airport was compromised due to a MOVEit attack on professional service provider Aon. Data of about 3000 employees of Dublin Airport (DDA) were compromised after professional service provider Aon fell victim to a MOVEit Transfer attack. Dublin Airport notified local authorities and Ireland’s Data Protection Commission. Aon […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2023
Anonymous Sudan claims to have stolen 30 million Microsoft’s customer accounts

Microsoft denied the data breach after the collective of hacktivists known as Anonymous Sudan claimed to have hacked the company. In early June, Microsoft suffered severe outages for some of its services, including Outlook email, OneDrive file-sharing apps, and the cloud computing infrastructure Azure. A collective known as Anonymous Sudan (aka Storm-1359) claimed responsibility for […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 27, 2023
Schneider Electric and Siemens Energy are two more victims of a MOVEit attack

Clop ransomware group added five new victims of MOVEit attacks to its dark web leak site, including Schneider Electric and Siemens Energy. The Clop ransomware group added five new victims of MOVEit attacks to its dark web leak site, including the industrial giants Schneider Electric and Siemens Energy. Both Schneider Electric and Siemens Energy provide […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 425 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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. Someone is sending mysterious smartwatches to the US Military personnel CISA orders govt agencies to fix […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2023
3CX data exposed, third-party to blame

A third-party vendor of 3CX, a popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) comms provider, left an open server and exposed sensitive 3CX data. The issue went under the company’s radar, even though it was recently targeted by North Korean hackers. While victims of cyberattacks should not be ridiculed, there’s a reason that sayings like “fool […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2023
Reddit Files: BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang claims to have stolen 80GB of data from Reddit

The BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware gang claims to have stolen 80GB of data from the Reddit in February cyberattack. In February, the social news aggregation platform Reddit suffered a security breach, attackers gained unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some business systems. The company announced it was hit by a sophisticated and highly-targeted attack that took […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 424 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

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. Law enforcement shutdown a long-standing DDoS-for-hire service A Russian national charged for committing LockBit Ransomware attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2023
Oil and gas giant Shell is another victim of Clop ransomware attacks

British multinational oil and gas company Shell has confirmed that it has suffered a ransomware attack conducted by the Clop group. Oil and Gas giant Shell has confirmed that it is one of the victims of the recent large-scale ransomware campaign conducted by the Clop gang exploiting a MOVEit zero-day vulnerability Threat actors are actively exploiting the zero-day vulnerability, tracked […]