Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2022
Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. Cybercriminals are leveraging advanced tactics in their phishing-kits granting them a high delivery success rate of spoofed e-mails which contain malicious attachments right before the end of the 2021 IRS income tax return deadline in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2022
Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) that could allow stealing admin credentials. Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA), tracked as CVE-2022-20773, that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to steal admin credentials remotely. Umbrella is Cisco’s cloud-based Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2022
Cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warn of cyberattacks conducted by Russia-linked threat actors on critical infrastructure. Cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) issued a joint advisory warning of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure conducted by Russia-linked threat actors and criminal cyber threats. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2022
Russia-linked threat actor Gamaredon targets Ukraine with new variants of the custom Pterodo backdoor. Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group (a.k.a. Armageddon, Primitive Bear, and ACTINIUM) continues to target Ukraine and it is using new variants of the custom Pterodo backdoor (aka Pteranodon). The cyberespionage group is behind a recent series of spear-phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities and organizations related to Ukrainian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2022
The Anonymous collective and affiliate groups intensify their attacks and claimed to have breached multiple organizations. Anonymous and groups linked to the famous collective continues to target Russian organizations, the hacktivist are breaching their systems and leak stolen data online. Below the organizations breached in the last three days, since my previous update: Tendertech is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2022
US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Windows Print Spooler vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the Windows Print Spooler, tracked as CVE-2022-22718, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2022
Researchers spotted a new variant of the BotenaGo botnet malware that is considered highly evasive and has a zero-detection rate. The BotenaGo botnet was first spotted in November 2021 by researchers at AT&T, the malicious code leverages thirty-three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. BotenaGo was written in Golang (Go) and at the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2022
Lenovo warns of vulnerabilities in its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) shipped with at least 100 notebook models. Lenovo has published a security advisory to warn customers of vulnerabilities that affect its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) loaded on at least 100 of its notebook models, including IdeaPad 3, Legion 5 Pro-16ACH6 H, and Yoga […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2022
Kaspersky discovered a flaw in the encryption process of the Yanluowang ransomware that allows victims to recover their files for free. Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a vulnerability in the encryption process of the Yanluowang ransomware that can be exploited to recover the files encrypted by the malware without paying the ransom. The Yanluowang ransomware was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2022
Researchers reported that threat actors leveraged a new zero-click iMessage exploit to install NSO Group Pegasus on iPhones belonging to Catalans. Researchers from Citizen Lab have published a report detailing the use of a new zero-click iMessage exploit, dubbed HOMAGE, to install the NSO Group Pegasus spyware on iPhones belonging to Catalan politicians, journalists, academics, and activists. […]
