Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2022
SonicWall confirmed that some of its Email Security and firewall products have been impacted by the Y2K22 bug. Security vendor SonicWall confirmed that some of its Email Security and firewall products have been impacted by the Y2K22 bug. According to the company, starting January 1, 2022, its Email Security products began experiencing an issue causing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2022
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns US companies that the FIN7 cybercriminals group is targeting the US defense industry with BadUSB devices. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a flash alert to warn that the financially motivated group FIN7 has sent malicious USB devices, BadUSB devices, to US companies over the past few […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2022
QNAP is warning customers of ransomware attacks targeting network-attached storage (NAS) devices exposed online. Taiwanese vendor QNAP has warned customers to secure network-attached storage (NAS) exposed online from ransomware and brute-force attacks. “Ransomware and brute-force attacks have been widely targeting all networking devices, and the most vulnerable victims will be those devices exposed to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2022
A threat actor attempted to exploit the Log4Shell vulnerability to hack VMWare Horizon servers at UK NHS and deploy web shells. The security team at the UK National Health Service (NHS) announced to have spotted threat actors exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability to hack VMWare Horizon servers and install web shells. “An unknown threat group has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2022
Experts warn that the popular antivirus product Norton 360 has installed a cryptocurrency miner on its customers’ computers. Many users ignore that Norton 360 comes with a cryptomining feature, dubbed Norton Crypto, that could allow them to earn money mining Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency while the customer’s computer is idle. Norton keeps a 15% of the mined cryptocurrency. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2022
The appointment scheduling service FlexBooker discloses a data breach that impacted over 3.7 million accounts. Threat actors compromised the FlexBooker accounts of more than 3.7 million users, the attack took place before the holidays. Stolen data are now available for sale on multiple cybercrime forums. FlexBooker is an online appointment scheduling platform that allows users to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2022
Researchers warn of a new ransomware family, called ‘Night Sky,’ that uses a double-extortion model in attacks again businesses. Researchers from MalwareHunterteam first spotted a new ransomware family dubbed Night Sky that implements a double extortion model in attacks aimed at businesses. Once encrypted a file, the ransomware appends the ‘.nightsky‘ extension to encrypted file names. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2022
North Korea-linked APT group Konni targets Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) new versions of malware implants. Security researchers at Cluster25 uncovered a recent campaign carried out by the North Korea-linked Konni APT group aimed at Russian diplomatic entities that used new versions of malware implants. The APT group carried out spear-phishing attacks using New Year’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2022
NY OAG warned 17 companies that roughly 1.1 million of their customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential stuffing attacks. The New York State Office of the Attorney General (NY OAG) has warned 17 companies that roughly 1.1 million accounts of their customers were compromised in credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing attacks involve […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2022
Experts warn of a new phishing technique that abuses the commenting feature of Google Docs to send out emails that appear from a legitimate source. Researchers from security firm Avanan in December uncovered a phishing campaign targeting mainly Outlook users with a new technique that abuses the commenting feature of Google Docs to send out […]
