Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2025
PRODAFT researchers warn of Russia-linked APT group Nebulous Mantis targeting NATO-related defense organizations Nebulous Mantis, a Russian-speaking cyber espionage group (aka Cuba, STORM-0978, Tropical Scorpius, UNC2596), used RomCom RAT and Hancitor since 2019 to target critical infrastructure, governments, and NATO-linked entities. Since mid-2022, they’ve deployed RomCom via spear-phishing for espionage, lateral movement, and data theft. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2025
France blames Russia-linked APT28 for cyberattacks targeting or compromising a dozen French government bodies and other entities. The Russia-linked APT28 group has targeted or compromised a dozen government organizations and other French entities, the French Government states. In 2024, it was observed attacking OT organizations and linked to cyberattacks on 60 entities in Asia and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2025
Indian Court ordered a nationwide block of the privacy-oriented email service Proton Mail on April 29, 2025, following a legal complaint. Proton Mail is a Swiss-based email service offering end-to-end encryption to ensure that only the sender and recipient can read the messages. Founded in 2013 by scientists from CERN, it operates under Proton AG […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2025
SentinelOne warns China-linked APT group PurpleHaze attempted reconnaissance on its systems and high-value clients. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne warns that a China-linked APT group, tracked as PurpleHaze, attempted to conduct reconnaissance on its infrastructure and high-value clients. The activity suggests targeted cyberespionage efforts aimed at gathering information for potential future attacks. SentinelOne first identified PurpleHaze’s activity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2025
Google tracked 75 zero-day flaws exploited in 2024, down from 98 in 2023, according to its Threat Intelligence Group’s latest analysis. In 2024, Google tracked 75 exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022. The researchers from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed that most targeted are end-user platforms, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2025
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Qualitia Active! Mail, Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS, and Commvault Web Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Qualitia Active! Mail, Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS, and Commvault Web Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2025
Earth Kurma APT carried out a sophisticated campaign against government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia. Trend Research exposed the Earth Kurma APT campaign targeting Southeast Asia’s government and telecom sectors. Threat actors use custom malware, rootkits, and cloud storage for espionage, credential theft, and data exfiltration, posing a high business risk with advanced evasion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2025
A large-scale phishing campaign targets WordPress WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a ‘critical patch’ hiding a backdoor. Patchstack researchers uncovered a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WordPress WooCommerce users with a fake security alert. Threat actors urge recipients to download a “critical patch” that hides a backdoor. The experts noted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2025
Orange Cyberdefense’s CSIRT reported that threat actors exploited two vulnerabilities in Craft CMS to breach servers and steal data. Orange Cyberdefense’s CSIRT warns that threat actors chained two Craft CMS vulnerabilities in recent attacks. Orange experts discovered the flaws while investigating a server compromise. The two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-32432 and CVE-2024-58136, are respectively a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2025
Microsoft warns that threat actor Storm-1977 is behind password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Storm-1977, using AzureChecker.exe to launch password spray attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. AzureChecker.exe connected to sac-auth[.]nodefunction[.]vip to download AES-encrypted data, which, […]
