Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2023
The cyber attack suffered by Suncor Energy impacted payment operations at Petro-Canada gas stations in Canada. Suncor Energy is Canada’s leading integrated energy company that provides oil sands development, production and upgrading, offshore oil and gas, and petroleum refining in Canada and the U.S.. It owns the Petro-Canada retail and wholesale distribution networks. A cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2023
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) addressed three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite BIND. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released security updates to address three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in the DNS software suite BIND. The three issues, tracked as CVE-2023-2828, CVE-2023-2829 and CVE-2023-2911, are remotely exploitable. ISC states that the three flaws, rated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2023
China-linked APT group VANGUARD PANDA, aka Volt Typhoon, was spotted observing a novel tradecraft to gain initial access to target networks. CrowdStrike researchers observed the China-linked APT group VANGUARD PANDA, aka Volt Typhoon, using a novel tradecraft to gain initial access to target networks. The Volt Typhoon group has been active since at least mid-2021 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2023
Researchers observed threat actors spreading a trojanized Super Mario Bros game installer to deliver multiple malware. Researchers from Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) discovered a trojanized Super Mario Bros game installer for Windows that was used to deliver multiple malware, including an XMR miner, SupremeBot mining client, and the Open-source Umbral stealer. The threat actors […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2023
A U.K. citizen, who was involved in the attack on Twitter in 2020, was sentenced to five years in prison for cybercrime offenses. Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe (24), the hacker who was involved in the attacks on Twitter in 2020, was sentenced to five years in prison for cybercrime offenses. On November 2021, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2023
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Someone is sending mysterious smartwatches to the US Military personnel CISA orders govt agencies to fix […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2023
U.S. Armyâs Criminal Investigation Division warns that US military personnel have reported receiving unsolicited smartwatches in the mail. The U.S. Armyâs Criminal Investigation Division reported that service members across the military received smartwatches unsolicited in the mail. Upon using these smartwatches, the devices automatically connected to Wi-Fi and began connecting to cell phones unprompted, gaining access to a huge quantity of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2023
VMware addressed multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in vCenter Server that can be exploited to achieve remote code execution. VMware released security updates to five memory corruption vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20892, CVE-2023-20893, CVE-2023-20894, CVE-2023-20895, CVE-2023-20896) in vCenter Server that could lead to remote code execution. The memory corruption vulnerabilities reside in the softwareâs implementation of the DCERPC protocol. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2023
Researchers reported that millions of GitHub repositories are likely vulnerable to an attack called RepoJacking. A study conducted by Aqua researchers revealed that millions of GitHub repositories are potentially vulnerable to RepoJacking. In the RepoJacking attack, attackers claim the old username of a repository after the legitimate creator changed the username, then publish a rogue repository […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2023
Since March 2023, Unit 42 researchers have observed a variant of the Mirai botnet spreading by targeting tens of flaws in D-Link, Zyxel, and Netgear devices. Since March 2023, researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have observed a new variant of the Mirai botnet targeting multiple vulnerabilities in popular IoT devices. Below is the […]
