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Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2022
Google expert detailed a 5-Year-Old flaw in Apple Safari exploited in the wild

Google Project Zero experts disclosed details of a 5-Year-Old Apple Safari flaw actively exploited in the wild. Researchers from the Google Project Zero team have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Apple Safari that was actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22620, was fixed for the first time in 2013, but in […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 370 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet MaliBot Android Banking Trojan […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2022
BRATA Android Malware evolves and targets the UK, Spain, and Italy

The developers behind the BRATA Android malware have implemented additional features to avoid detection. The operators behind the BRATA Android malware have implemented more features to make their attacks stealthy. The malware was first spotted in 2019 by security experts at Kaspersky, the name BRAT comes from ‘Brazilian RAT Android,’ because at the time it was used to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2022
Critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress Plugin actively exploited in the wild

A critical vulnerability in Ninja Forms plugin potentially impacted more than one million WordPress websites In middle June, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team noticed a back-ported security update in the popular WordPress plugin Ninja Forms, which has over one million active installations. The analysis of the updates revealed that they patched a code injection vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2022
Experts warn of a new eCh0raix ransomware campaign targeting QNAP NAS

Experts warn of a new ech0raix ransomware campaign targeting QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Bleeping Computer and MalwareHunterTeam researchers, citing user reports and sample submissions on the ID Ransomware platform, warn of a new wave of ech0raix ransomware attacks targeting QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. The ransomware, tracked by Intezer as “QNAPCrypt” and “eCh0raix” by Anomali, is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2022
US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced to have shut down the infrastructure associated with the Russian botnet RSOCKS. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced to have shut down the infrastructure associated with the Russian botnet RSOCKS as part of an international police operation that involved law enforcement partners from Germany, the Netherlands, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2022
Chinese DriftingCloud APT exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day before it was fixed

China-linked threat actors exploited the zero-day flaw CVE-2022-1040 in Sophos Firewall weeks before it was fixed by the security vendor. Volexity researchers discovered that the zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, in Sophos Firewall was exploited by Chinese threat actors to compromise a company and cloud-hosted web servers it was operating. The vulnerability was exploited by […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2022
Experts link Hermit spyware to Italian surveillance firm RCS Lab and a front company

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country. The latest samples of this spyware were detected by the researchers in April 2022, four […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2022
A Microsoft 365 feature can ransom files on SharePoint and OneDriveCould

Experts discovered a feature in Microsoft 365 suite that could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive and target cloud infrastructure. Researchers from Proofpoint reported that a feature in the in Microsoft 365 suite could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive. “Proofpoint has discovered a potentially dangerous piece […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2022
BlackCat Ransomware affiliates target unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers

The BlackCat ransomware gang is targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise target networks, Microsoft warns. Microsoft researchers have observed BlackCat ransomware gang targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise organizations worldwide. The compromise of Exchange servers allows threat actors to access the target networks, perform internal reconnaissance and lateral movement activities, and steal sensitive documents before encrypting them. “For example, […]