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Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2021
This couple lost £15,000 to scammers. We followed the money – and found millions in stolen crypto

A CyberNews investigation uncovered a network of wallet addresses used by a scammer group to store and cash out millions in crypto stolen from thousands of victims. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/crypto/millions-of-stolen-crypto-found-investigation/ Mindaugas (who wished his last name not to be disclosed publicly), an executive at a UK-based company, unknowingly fell for a scam when he […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2021
Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Reader, Acrobat, and Illustrator

Adobe addressed multiple critical vulnerabilities in several products, including Adobe Acrobat and Reader application. Adobe addressed multiple critical remote code execution and privilege escalation vulnerabilities in multiple products running on both Windows and macOS systems. The flaws fixed by Adobe affect Acrobat and Reader, Illustrator, Framemaker, Dimension and Bridge products. Below the list of advisories […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2021
ModiPwn flaw in Modicon PLCs bypasses security mechanisms

ModiPwn flaw (CVE-2021-22779) in some of Schneider Electric’s Modicon PLCs can allow attackers to bypass authentication mechanisms and take over the device. Researchers at IoT security firm Armis discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22779 and dubbed ModiPwn, that affects some of Schneider Electric ’s Modicon PLCs. The flaw can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2021
Social media partially disrupted in Cuba amid anti-government protests

NetBlocks reported partial disruption to social media and messaging platforms in Cuba from 12 July 2021 shortly after Cubans went to the streets to protest the government. Security experts from NetBlocks are observing partial disruption to social media and messaging platforms in Cuba from 12 July 2021 shortly after Cubans went to the streets to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2021
American retailer Guess discloses data breach after ransomware attack

American clothing brand and retailer Guess discloses a data breach after the February ransomware attack and is notifying the affected customers. In February, American fashion brand Guess was hit by a ransomware attack, now the company is disclosing a data breach and is notifying affected customers. The attack was likely carried out by the DarkSide ransomware gang […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2021
SolarWinds fixes critical Serv-U zero-day exploited in the wild

SolarWinds confirmed that a threat actor is actively exploiting a new zero-day vulnerability in Serv-U products and urges customers to fix it. SolarWinds addressed a zero-day remote code execution flaw in Serv-U products which is actively exploited in the wild by a single threat actor. SolarWinds was informed of the zero-day by Microsoft, the issue affects Serv-U Managed File Transfer […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2021
Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online – again

Researchers from Cyber News Team have spotted threat actors offering for sale 600 million LinkedIn profiles scraped from the platform, again. Original post: https://cybernews.com/news/threat-actors-scrape-600-million-linkedin-profiles-and-are-selling-the-data-online-again/ For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2021
BIOPASS malware abuses OBS Studio to spy on victims

Researchers spotted a new malware, dubbed BIOPASS, that sniffs victim’s screen by abusing the framework of Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio. Researchers from Trend Micro spotted a new malware, dubbed BIOPASS, that sniffs the victim’s screen by abusing the framework of Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio. Threat actors behind the new malware planted a malicious JavaScript code on support […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2021
Kaseya releases patches for flaws exploited in massive ransomware supply-chain attack

Kaseya has released a security update to address the VSA zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by REvil gang in the massive ransomware supply chain attack. Software vendor Kaseya has released a security update to fix the zero-day vulnerabilities in its VSA software that were exploited by the REvil ransomware gang in the massive ransomware supply chain attack. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2021
Magecart hackers hide stolen credit card data into images and bogus CSS files

Magecart hackers continuously improve their exfiltration techniques to evade detection, they are hiding stolen credit card data into images. Magecart hackers have devised a new technique to obfuscating the malware within comment blocks and hide stolen credit card data into images evading detection. Hacker groups under the Magecart umbrella continue to target e-stores to steal payment card data with […]