Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2022
US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds 41 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 41 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including recently addressed issues in the Android kernel (CVE-2021-1048 and CVE-2021-0920) and Cisco IOS XR (CVE-2022-20821). The Cisco IOS XR flaw (CVE-2022-20821, CVSS score: […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2022
Trend Micro addressed a DLL hijacking issue in Trend Micro Security actively exploited by a China-linked threat group to deploy malware. Trend Micro addressed a DLL hijacking flaw in Trend Micro Security that a China-linked threat actor actively exploited to deploy malware. In early May, SentinelOne researchers observed a China-linked APT group, tracked as Moshen […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2022
Threat actors behind web skimming campaigns are using malicious JavaScript to mimic Google Analytics and Meta Pixel scripts to avoid detection. Microsoft security researchers recently observed web skimming campaigns that used multiple obfuscation techniques to avoid detection. The threat actors obfuscated the skimming script by encoding it in PHP, which, in turn, was embedded in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2022
Interpol Secretary warns that nation-state malware will become available on the cybercrime underground in a couple of years. Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock declared that nation-state malwre will become available on the darknet in a couple of years. In the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the malware developed by both nation-state actors and non […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2022
Russia-linked APT group Turla was observed targeting the Austrian Economic Chamber, a NATO eLearning platform, and the Baltic Defense College. Researchers from SEKOIA.IO Threat & Detection Research (TDR) team have uncovered a reconnaissance and espionage campaign conducted by Russia-linked Turla APT aimed at the Baltic Defense College, the Austrian Economic Chamber (involved in government decision-making such as economic sanctions) and NATOâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2022
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered campaigns targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox. The five 0-day vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2022
Researchers uncovered a malware campaign targeting the infoSec community with fake Proof Of Concept to deliver a Cobalt Strike beacon. Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble uncovered a malware campaign targeting the infoSec community. The expert discovered a post where a researcher were sharing a fake Proof of Concept (POC) exploit code for an RPC Runtime Library […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2022
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT is exploiting the Log4J remote code execution (RCE) in attacks aimed at VMware Horizon servers. North Korea-linked group Lazarus is exploiting the Log4J RCE vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) to compromise VMware Horizon servers. Multiple threat actors are exploiting this flaw since January, in January VMware urged customers to patch critical Log4j security vulnerabilities impacting Internet-exposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2022
The Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 hacking contest ended, Trend Micro and ZDI awarded a total of $1,155,000 for successful attempts! During the third day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 hacking competition, white hat hackers demonstrated a working exploit against Microsoft Windows 11 OS. nghiadt12 from Viettel Cyber Security demonstrated an exploit for an escalation of privilege via Integer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2022
The media company Nikkei has disclosed a ransomware attack and revealed that the incident might have impacted customer data. The Japanese-based media company Nikkey is focused on the business and financial industry, it is the world’s largest financial newspaper. This week the company disclosed a security breach, ransomware infected one of its servers at a […]
