Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2021
Google warns of APT28 attack attempts against 14,000 Gmail users

Google warned more than 14,000 Gmail users that they have been the target of nation-state spear-phishing campaigns. On Wednesday, Google announced to have warned approximately 14,000 Gmail users that they had been targeted by nation-state hackers. Shane Huntley, the head of the Threat Analysis Group (TAG), wrote on Twitter that his group had sent an above-average batch […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2021
FIN12 ransomware gang don’t implement double extortion to prioritize speed

Researchers detailed the activities of the FIN12 ransomware group that earned million of dollars over the past years. Researchers from Mandiant published a detailed report on the activities of a financially motivated ransomware group tracked as FIN12 that has been active since at least October 2018. The vast majority of FIN12 victims have more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2021
PoC exploit for 2 flaws in Dahua cameras leaked online

A proof of concept exploit for two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Dahua cameras is available online, users are recommended to immediately apply updates. Experts warn of the availability of proof of concept (PoC) exploit code for a couple of authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Dahua cameras, tracked as CVE-2021-33044 and CVE-2021-33045.  A remote attacker can exploit both vulnerabilities […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2021
Operation GhostShell: MalKamak APT targets aerospace and telco firms

Operation GhostShell: Threat actors used ShellClient malware in cyberespionage campaigns aimed at companies in the aerospace and telecommunications sectors. Hackers use stealthy ShellClient malware on aerospace, telco firms Cybereason Nocturnus and Incident Response Teams discovered a new threat actor that is targeting organizations in the aerospace and telecommunications sectors with the ShellClient malware as part […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2021
Exclusive: Researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs

Resecurity researchers dumped Gigabytes of data from Agent Tesla C2Cs, one of the most well-known cyberespionage tools suffers a data leakage. Agent Tesla, first discovered in late 2014, is an extremely popular “malware-as-a-service” Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool used by threat actors to steal information such as credentials, keystrokes, clipboard data and other information from […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2021
Twitch source code and sensitive data leaked online

An anonymous individual has leaked the source code and data of the popular video streaming platform Twitch via a torrent file posted on 4chan. An anonymous individual has leaked online the source code and streamers and users data of the popular video streaming platform Twitch. The anonymous 4chan user has published a torrent link to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2021
Arizona governor announces the launch of Command Center to protect state computer systems

The governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, has announced the launch of a Cyber Command Center to address the thousands of attacks that daily target government computers. The governor of Arizona, Doug Ducey, has launched a Cyber Command Center to repel the huge amount of attacks that every day hit the computer systems of the state. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2021
UK newspaper The Telegraph exposed a 10TB database with subscriber data

The UK media outlet The Telegraph has leaked 10 TB of subscriber data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The UK newspaper The Telegraph’, one of the UK’s largest newspapers and online media outlets, has leaked 10 TB of data after failing to properly secure one of its databases. The popular researcher […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2021
LANtenna attack allows exfiltrating data from Air-Gapped systems via Ethernet cables

Boffins devised a new technique, dubbed LANtenna, to exfiltrate data from systems in air-gapped networks using Ethernet cables as a “transmitting antenna.” Security researchers from the Cyber Security Research Center in the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) devised a new data exfiltration mechanism, dubbed LANtenna Attack, that leverages Ethernet cables as a “transmitting […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2021
Apache patch a zero-day flaw exploited in the wild

Apache has addressed two vulnerabilities, one of which is a path traversal and file disclosure flaw in its HTTP server actively exploited in the wild. Apache has rolled out security patches to address two flaws, including a path traversal and file disclosure issue in its HTTP server that is actively exploited in the wild. The […]