Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2022
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
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 08, 2022
Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach after threat actors have stolen employee credentials in an SMS phishing attack. Communications company Twilio discloses a data breach, threat actors had access to the data of some of its customers. The attackers accessed company systems using employee credentials obtained through a sophisticated SMS phishing attack. Twilio is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2022
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2022
Threat actors abuse open redirects on Snapchat and American Express to launch phishing attacks against Microsoft 365 users. Attackers abused open redirects on the websites of Snapchat and American Express as part of a phishing campaign targeting Microsoft 365 users. The term Open URL redirection, open redirects, refers to a security issue that makes it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2022
Microsoft is actively blocking Tutanota email addresses from registering a Microsoft Teams account. Tutanota is an end-to-end encrypted email app and a freemium secure email service, as of March 2017, Tutanota’s owners claimed to have over 2 million users. The news is that Microsoft is actively blocking Tutanota email addresses from registering a Microsoft Teams […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2022
A massive cyberattack hit the website of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) this week. A massive attack hit the website of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) forcing the organization to shut down its IT systems as a precautionary measure for security reasons. “Due to a possible cyber attack, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2022
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs 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. Greek intelligence service used surveillance malware to spy on a journalist, Reuters reports Slack resets passwords […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 07, 2022
Researchers spotted a new family of ransomware, named GwisinLocker, that encrypts Windows and Linux ESXi servers. Researchers warn of a new ransomware called GwisinLocker which is able to encrypt Windows and Linux ESXi servers. The ransomware targets South Korean healthcare, industrial, and pharmaceutical companies, its name comes from the name of the author ‘Gwisin’ (ghost […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2022
Greek intelligence admitted it had spied on a journalist, while citizens ask the government to reveal the use of surveillance malware. The head of the Greek intelligence told a parliamentary committee that they had spied on a journalist with surveillance malware, Reuters reported citing two sources present. The revelation comes while media and journalists are […]
