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Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2022
GhostWriter APT targets state entities of Ukraine with Cobalt Strike Beacon 

Ukraine CERT-UA warns that the Belarus-linked GhostWriter APT group is targeting state entities of Ukraine with Cobalt Strike Beacon. Ukraine CERT-UA uncovered a spear-phishing campaign conducted by Belarus-linked GhostWriter APT group targeting Ukrainian state entities with Cobalt Strike Beacon. The phishing messages use a RAR-archive named “Saboteurs.rar”, which contains RAR-archive “Saboteurs 21.03.rar.” This second archive […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2022
Shopping trap: The online stores’ scam that hits users worldwide

Shopping trap: Criminal gangs from China have been using copies of online stores of popular brands to target users all over the world Malicious schemas linked to online stores are on the rise in 2022. Criminal gangs from China have been using copies of online stores of popular brands to target users all over the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2022
Sophos Firewall affected by a critical authentication bypass flaw

Sophos has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, in its Sophos Firewall that allows remote code execution (RCE). Sophos has fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, that resides in the User Portal and Webadmin areas of Sophos Firewall. The CVE-2022-1040 flaw received a CVSS score of 9.8 and impacts Sophos Firewall versions 18.5 MR3 (18.5.3) and earlier. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2022
Mar 20- Mar 26 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. March 25 – Anonymous leaked 28GB of data stolen from the Central Bank of Russia Anonymous announced that the affiliate group Black Rabbit World has leaked 28 GB of data stolen from the Central Bank […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 358 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. FCC adds Kaspersky to Covered List due to unacceptable risks to national security Anonymous […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2022
Western Digital addressed a critical bug in My Cloud OS 5

Western Digital fixed a critical flaw affecting My Cloud OS 5 devices that allowed attackers to gain remote code execution with root privileges. Western Digital has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44142, that could have allowed attackers to gain remote code execution with root privileges on unpatched My Cloud OS 5 devices. The CVE-2021-44142 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2022
CISA adds 66 new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 66 new flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 15 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.ⓘ According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have to address the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2022
FCC adds Kaspersky to Covered List due to unacceptable risks to national security

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added Kaspersky to its Covered List because it poses unacceptable risks to U.S. national security. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added multiple Kaspersky products and services to its Covered List saying that they pose unacceptable risks to U.S. national security. “The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2022
Anonymous leaked 28GB of data stolen from the Central Bank of Russia

Anonymous announced that the affiliate group Black Rabbit World has leaked 28 GB of data stolen from the Central Bank of Russia This week the Anonymous hacker collective claims to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia and stole accessed 35,000 documents. The group of hacktivists announced that will leak the stolen documents in 48 […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2022
Chrome emergency update fixes actively exploited a zero-day bug

Google addresses an actively exploited zero-day flaw with the release of Chrome 99.0.4844.84 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Google fixed an actively exploited high-severity zero-day vulnerability with the release of Chrome 99.0.4844.84 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Google has released Chrome 99.0.4844.84 for Windows, Mac, and Linux users to address a high-severity zero-day bug, tracked […]