Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2022
Cisco was hacked by the Yanluowang ransomware gang

Cisco discloses a security breach, the Yanluowang ransomware group breached its corporate network in late May and stole internal data. Cisco disclosed a security breach, the Yanluowang ransomware group breached its corporate network in late May and stole internal data. The investigation conducted by Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos revealed that threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2022
Risky Business: Enterprises Can’t Shake Log4j flaw

70% of Large enterprises that previously addressed the Log4j flaw are still struggling to patch Log4j-vulnerable assets. INTRODUCTION In December 2021 security teams scrambled to find Log4j-vulnerable assets and patch them. Eight months later many Global 2000 firms are still fighting to mitigate the digital assets and business risks associated with Log4j. The ease of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2022
Experts found 10 malicious packages on PyPI used to steal developers’ data

10 packages have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) because they were found harvesting data. Check Point researchers have discovered ten malicious packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI). The packages install info-stealers that allow threat actors to steal the private data and personal credentials of the developers. The researchers provide details about […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2022
CISA adds UnRAR and Windows flaws to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds vulnerabilities in the UnRAR utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently disclosed security flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-30333 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the UnRAR utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The CVE-2022-30333 flaw is a path traversal […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2022
Experts linked Maui ransomware to North Korean Andariel APT

Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky linked the Maui ransomware to the North Korea-backed Andariel APT group. Kaspersky linked with medium confidence the Maui ransomware operation to the North Korea-backed APT group Andariel, which is considered a division of the Lazarus APT Group,  North Korean nation-state actors used Maui ransomware to encrypt servers providing healthcare services, including electronic […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2022
Chinese actors behind attacks on industrial enterprises and public institutions

China-linked threat actors targeted dozens of industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and Europe. In January 2022, researchers at Kaspersky ICS CERT uncovered a series of targeted attacks on military industrial enterprises and public institutions in Afghanistan and East Europe. The attackers breached dozens of enterprises and in some cases compromised their IT infrastructure, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2022
US sanctioned crypto mixer Tornado Cash used by North Korea-linked APT

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the crypto mixer service Tornado Cash used by North Korea. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned the crypto mixer service Tornado Cash used by North Korean-linked Lazarus APT Group. The mixers are essential components for cybercriminals that use […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2022
Malicious file analysis – Example 01

Cyber Security Specialist Zoziel Pinto Freire shows an example of malicious file analysis presented during his lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. My objective with this series of articles is to show examples of malicious file analysis that I presented during my lecture on BSides-Vitória 2022. For this first one, I’ll briefly introduce some crucial topics to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2022
Orchard botnet uses Bitcoin Transaction info to generate DGA domains

Experts spotted a new botnet named Orchard using Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s account information to generate malicious domains. 360 Netlab researchers recently discovered a new botnet named Orchard that uses Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin account (1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa) transaction information to generate DGA domain name. “Another change relates to the use of the DGA algorithm employed in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2022
LogoKit update – The phishing kit leveraging Open Redirect Vulnerabilities

LogoKit – Threat actors leveraging Open Redirect Vulnerabilities popular in online services and apps to bypass spam filters in phishing campaigns. Resecurity, Inc. (USA), a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company providing managed threat detection and response for Fortune 500’s, identified threat actors leveraging Open Redirect Vulnerabilities popular in online services and apps to bypass spam filters […]