Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2022
Less popular, but very effective, Red-Teaming Tool BRc4 used in attacks in the wild

Threat actors are abusing legitimate adversary simulation software BRc4 in their campaigns to evade detection. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered that a sample uploaded to the VirusTotal database on May 19, 2022 and considered benign by almost all the antivirus, was containing a payload associated with Brute Ratel C4 (BRc4), a new red-teaming and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2022
Malicious NPM packages used to grab data from apps, websites

Researchers from ReversingLabs discovered tens of malicious NPM packages stealing data from apps and web forms. Researchers from ReversingLabs discovered a couple of dozen NPM packages that included malicious code designed to steal data from apps and web forms on websites that included the modules. The malicious NPM modules were delivered as part of a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2022
Iranian Fars News Agency claims cyberattack on a company involved in the construction of Tel Aviv metro

Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that a massive cyberattack hit operating systems and servers of the Tel Aviv Metro. Iran’s Fars News Agency reported on Monday that operating systems and servers of the Tel Aviv Metro were hit by a massive cyberattack. The rail system is still under construction and according to The Jerusalem Post, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2022
Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested 9 men behind phishing attacks on Ukrainians attempting to capitalize on the ongoing conflict

The Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested nine members of a cybercriminal gang that has stolen 100 million hryvnias via phishing attacks. The Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested nine members of a cybercriminal organization that stole 100 million hryvnias via phishing attacks. The crooks created more than 400 phishing sites for obtaining the banking data of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2022
Threat actors compromised British Army ’s Twitter, YouTube accounts to promote crypto scams

Threat actors compromised the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army to promote online crypto scams. The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army were used to promote NFT and other crypto scams. The YouTube account was used to transmit an older Elon Musk clip that attempts to trick users into visiting cryptocurrency scam […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2022
Popular Django web framework affected by a SQL Injection flaw. Upgrade it now!

The development team behind the Django Project has addressed a high-severity SQL Injection flaw in its framework. Django is a free and open-source, Python-based web framework that follows the model–template–views (MTV) architectural pattern. Django is maintained by the independent organization Django Software Foundation. The latest releases of the framework, Django 4.0.6 and 3.2.14, addressed a high-severity SQL […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2022
Unfaithful HackerOne employee steals bug reports to claim additional bounties

Bug bounty platform HackerOne disclosed that a former employee improperly accessed security reports submitted to claim additional bounties The vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform HackerOne disclosed that a former employee improperly accessed security reports submitted by white-hat hackers to claim additional bounties. The investigation started on June 22nd, 2022, when a customer asked the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2022
CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds CVE-2022-26925 Windows LSA flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. In May the US CISA removed the CVE-2022-26925 Windows LSA vulnerability from its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog due to Active Directory (AD) certificate authentication problems observed after the installation of Microsoft’s May 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates. “CISA […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2022
Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities

Jenkins security team disclosed tens of flaws affecting 29 plugins for the Jenkins automation server, most of them are yet to be patched. Jenkins is the most popular open-source automation server, it is maintained by CloudBees and the Jenkins community. The automation server supports developers build, test and deploy their applications, it has hundreds of thousands […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2022
Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm already infected hundreds of networks

Microsoft announced that the Windows worm Raspberry Robin has already infected the networks of hundreds of organizations. Raspberry Robin is a Windows worm discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Red Canary, the malware propagates through removable USB devices. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL. The […]