Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2022
A former Twitter employee was found guilty of spying on certain Twitter users for Saudi Arabia. A former Twitter employee, Ahmad Abouammo (44), was found guilty of gathering private information of certain Twitter users and passing them to Saudi Arabia. “Ahmad Abouammo, a US resident born in Egypt, was found guilty by a jury Tuesday […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2022
Cisco discloses a security breach, the Yanluowang ransomware group breached its corporate network in late May and stole internal data. Cisco disclosed a security breach, the Yanluowang ransomware group breached its corporate network in late May and stole internal data. The investigation conducted by Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos revealed that threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2022
70% of Large enterprises that previously addressed the Log4j flaw are still struggling to patch Log4j-vulnerable assets. INTRODUCTION In December 2021 security teams scrambled to find Log4j-vulnerable assets and patch them. Eight months later many Global 2000 firms are still fighting to mitigate the digital assets and business risks associated with Log4j. The ease of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2022
10 packages have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) because they were found harvesting data. Check Point researchers have discovered ten malicious packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI). The packages install info-stealers that allow threat actors to steal the private data and personal credentials of the developers. The researchers provide details about […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2022
Cloudflare revealed that at least 76 employees and their family members were targeted by smishing attacks similar to the one that hit Twilio. The content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare revealed this week that at least 76 employees and their family members received text messages on their personal and work phones. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2022
US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds vulnerabilities in the UnRAR utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently disclosed security flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-30333 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the UnRAR utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The CVE-2022-30333 flaw is a path traversal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2022
VMware warns of the availability of a proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical authentication bypass flaw in multiple products. VMware warns its customers of the availability of a proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-31656, in multiple products. The flaw was discovered by security researcher Petrus Viet from VNG Security, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2022
China-linked threat actors targeted dozens of industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe. In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. The attackers breached dozens of enterprises and in some cases compromised their IT infrastructure, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2022
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the crypto mixer service Tornado Cash used by North Korea. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned the crypto mixer service Tornado Cash used by North Korean-linked Lazarus APT Group. The mixers are essential components for cybercriminals that use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2022
Cyber Security Specialist Zoziel Pinto Freire shows an example of malicious file analysis presented during his lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. My objective with this series of articles is to show examples of malicious file analysis that I presented during my lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. For this first one, I’ll briefly introduce some crucial topics to […]
