Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2022
Dependency Review GitHub Action scans users’ pull requests for dependency changes and will raise an error if any new dependencies have existing flaws. GitHub announced Dependency Review GitHub Action which scans users’ pull requests for dependency changes and will raise an error if any new dependencies have existing flaws that can be exploited in supply […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2022
Easy Appointments contained a very dangerous Broken Access Control vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-0482 that was exposing PII. Another day, another threat to your data. The recently discovered CVE-2022-0482 is a Broken Access Control vulnerability affecting Easy Appointments, a popular open-source web app written in PHP, used by thousands of sites to manage their online bookings. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2022
This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine that occurred in the previous weeks: April 8 – Anonymous and the IT ARMY of Ukraine continue to target Russian entities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2022
NB65 hacking group created its ransomware based on the leaked source code of the Conti ransomware and targets Russia. According to BleepingComputer, NB65 hacking group is targeting Russian organizations with ransomware that they have developed using the leaked source code of the Conti ransomware. The NB65 hacking group, since the beginning of the invasion, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. A DDoS attack took down Finnish govt sites as Ukraine’s President addresses MPs SharkBot […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2022
A massive DDoS attack took down Finnish government websites while Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addressed Finland’s members of parliament (MPs). On April 8, a denial-of-service attack took down the websites of the Finnish ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs. The attack started at about noon, while Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addressed Finland’s members of parliament (MPs). “A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2022
China-linked threat actors continue to target Indian power grid organizations, most of the attacks involved the ShadowPad backdoor. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group researchers uncovered a campaign conducted by a China-linked threat actor targeting Indian power grid organizations. The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2022
Experts warn of a Mirai-based botnet exploiting the recently discovered Spring4Shell vulnerability in attacks in the wild. Trend Micro Threat Research reported that the recently discovered Spring4Shell vulnerability (CVE-2022-22965) is actively exploited by a Mirai-based botnet. Researchers from Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 first reported the exploitation of the Spring4Shell by a Mirai-based botnet in early April. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2022
Which are the most important cybersecurity measures that businesses can take to protect themselves in the cloud era? We are now firmly in the era of cloud data and storage. In fact, it’s become quite difficult to find a service that doesn’t rely on the cloud in some way. This ubiquity has led to increased […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2022
A Ukrainian man was sentenced in the US to 5 years in prison for his criminal activity in the cybercrime group FIN7. Denys Iarmak, a Ukrainian national (32), has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. for high-level hacking activity in the cybercrime group FIN7 (aka Carbanak Group and the Navigator Group). The man […]
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