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Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2024
UK NHS call for O-type blood donations following ransomware attack on London hospitals

The UK NHS issued an urgent call for O-type blood donations following the recent ransomware attack that hit several London hospitals. The UK National Health Service (NHS) issued an urgent call for O-type blood donations due to the recent ransomware attack on Synnovis that disrupted operations at several healthcare organizations in London. In early June, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2024
Christie’s data breach impacted 45,798 individuals

Auction house Christie’s revealed that the data breach caused by the recent ransomware attack impacted 45,000 individuals. At the end of May, the auction house Christie’s disclosed a data breach after the ransomware group RansomHub threatened to leak stolen data. The security breach occurred in early May and the website of the auction house was unreachable after […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2024
Sticky Werewolf targets the aviation industry in Russia and Belarus

Morphisec researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Sticky Werewolf, targeting entities in Russia and Belarus. Sticky Werewolf is a threat actor that was first spotted in April 2023, initially targeting public organizations in Russia and Belarus. The group has expanded its operations to various sectors, including a pharmaceutical company and a Russian research institute […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2024
Frontier Communications data breach impacted over 750,000 individuals

Frontier Communications is notifying over 750,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a recent cyber attack. Last week, the RansomHub ransomware group claimed to have stolen the information of over 2 million customers from the American telecommunications company Frontier Communications. The RansomHub group claimed to have stolen 5GB of data from the telecommunications […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2024
PHP addressed critical RCE flaw potentially impacting millions of servers

A new PHP for Windows remote code execution (RCE) flaw affects version 5.x and earlier versions, potentially impacting millions of servers worldwide. Researchers at cybersecurity firm DEVCORE discovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, in the PHP programming language. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw to take full control of affected servers. PHP is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2024
Security Affairs newsletter Round 475 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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. New York Times source code compromised via exposed GitHub token SolarWinds fixed multiple flaws in Serv-U […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2024
New York Times source code compromised via exposed GitHub token

The source code and data of The New York Times leaked on the 4chan was stolen from the company’s GitHub repositories in January 2024. This week, VX-Underground first noticed that the internal data of The New York Times was leaked on 4chan by an anonymous user. The mysterious user leaked 270GB of data and claimed […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2024
SolarWinds fixed multiple flaws in Serv-U and SolarWinds Platform

SolarWinds addressed multiple vulnerabilities in Serv-U and the SolarWinds Platform, including a bug reported by a pentester working with NATO. SolarWinds announced security patches to address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in Serv-U and the SolarWinds Platform. The vulnerabilities affect Platform 2024.1 SR 1 and previous versions. One of the vulnerabilities addressed by the company, tracked as […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2024
Pandabuy was extorted twice by the same threat actor

Chinese shopping platform Pandabuy previously paid a ransom demand to an extortion group that extorted the company again this week. The story of the attack against the Chinese shopping platform Pandabuy demonstrates that paying a ransom to an extortion group is risky to the victims. BleepingComputer first reported that Pandabuy had previously paid a ransom […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2024
UAC-0020 threat actor used the SPECTR Malware to target Ukraine’s defense forces

Ukraine CERT-UA warned of cyber attacks targeting defense forces with SPECTR malware as part of a cyber espionage campaign dubbed SickSync. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of cyber espionage campaign targeting defense forces in the country. The Ukrainian CERT attributes the attack to the threat actor UAC-0020 which employed a malware […]