Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2022
Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska discloses data breach

Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska has disclosed a data breach that has impacted roughly 200,000 customers. Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska has disclosed a data breach that has impacted 10% of its customers, roughly 200,000 people. Threat actors had access to sensitive personal information of the customers, including names, personal identification numbers, physical addresses, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2022
FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. FritzFrog is a sophisticated botnet that was involved in attacks against SSH servers worldwide since January 2020. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2022
CISA adds 15 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The U.S. CISA has added to the catalog of vulnerabilities another 15 security vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added fifteen more flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog‘ is a list of known vulnerabilities that threat actors have abused in attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2022
Apple addressed a third zero-day in 2022, which is actively exploited

Apple addressed a new WebKit zero-day affecting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari that may have been actively exploited in the wild. Apple has addressed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22620, in the WebKit affecting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari that may have been actively exploited in the wild. This is the third zero-day vulnerability fixed by the IT giant […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2022
Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

Spanish National Police arrested eight alleged members of a crime ring specialized in SIM swapping attacks. Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Crooks conduct SIM swapping attacks to take control of victims’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2022
Attackers Increasingly Adopting Regsvr32 Utility Execution Via Office Documents

The Uptycs threat research team has been observing an increase in utilization of regsvr32.exe heavily via various types of Microsoft Office documents. The full report that includes Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) is available here: https://www.uptycs.com/blog/attackers-increasingly-adopting-regsvr32-utility-execution-via-office-documents During our analysis of these malware samples, we have identified that some of the malware samples belonged to Qbot and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2022
How Does An IPv6 Proxy Work & How Enterprises Can Get Benefit?

IPv6 became imperative after developers discovered that IPv4 had a finite number and addresses. How does an IPv6 Proxy work? Technological advancements have come a long way – from when internet utility was very limited to when internet connection was achieved only through internet protocol (IP) version 4 (IPv4) addresses to this modern age where […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2022
Spyware, ransomware and Nation-state hacking: Q&A from a recent interview

I transcribed a recent interview, here some questions and answers about nation-state hacking, spyware, and cyber warfare. Enjoy” How has spyware changed the rules of cyber security in recent years? What will cyber security look like now that those tools are all over the internet? In the last decade, we have observed a progressive weaponization […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2022
US citizens lost more than $68M to SIM swap attacks in 2021, FBI warns

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns of an escalation in SIM swap attacks that caused millions of losses. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) observed an escalation in SIM swap attacks aimed at stealing millions from the victims by hijacking their mobile phone numbers. The FBI reported that US citizens have lost more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2022
CISA warns to address SAP ICMAD flaw immediately

The US CISA warns to address a severe security vulnerability dubbed ICMAD impacting SAP business apps using ICM.. Internet Communication Manager Advanced Desync (ICMAD) is a memory pipes (MPI) desynchronization vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-22536. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this issue by sending a simple HTTP request to a vulnerable instance and take over it. […]