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Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2023
Crooks broke into AT&T email accounts to empty their cryptocurrency wallets

Threat actors are gaining access to AT&T email accounts in an attempt to hack into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts. Hackers are breaking into the AT&T email accounts and then using the access they are logging into the victim’s cryptocurrency exchange accounts to drain their crypto funds, TechCrunch reported. Crooks are targeting people who have att.net, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2023
White hat hackers showed how to take over a European Space Agency satellite

Thales cybersecurity researchers have shown this week how they seized control of a European Space Agency (ESA) satellite. This week, during the third edition of CYSAT, the European event dedicated to cybersecurity for the space industry, the European Space Agency (ESA) set up a satellite test bench, inviting white hat hackers to attempt seizing control […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 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. ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2023
ViperSoftX uses more sophisticated encryption and anti-analysis techniques

A new variant of the information-stealing malware ViperSoftX implements sophisticated techniques to avoid detection. Trend Micro researchers observed a new ViperSoftX malware campaign that unlike previous attacks relies on DLL sideloading for its arrival and execution technique. The variant employed in the campaign supports a more sophisticated encryption method of byte remapping and a monthly […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2023
Atomic macOS Stealer is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month

Atomic macOS Stealer is a new information stealer targeting macOS that is advertised on Telegram for $1,000 per month. Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) recently discovered a Telegram channel advertising a new information-stealing malware, named Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS). The malware targets macOS, it was designed to steal sensitive information from the infected systems. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2023
CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices

U.S. CISA released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take any action at the operating system level. The issues […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023
OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands

OpenAI announced that access to its chatbot service ChatGPT is allowed again in Italy after the company met the demands of regulators. OpenAI restored access to ChatGPT in Italy after the company met the demands of the Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante Privacy. In early April, the Italian Data Protection Authority temporarily banned ChatGPT due […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023
Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment solution

Cisco is working on a patch for a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment solution that was reported by a member of NATO’s Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Cisco informed its customers that it’s working on a patch for cross-site scripting (XSS) issue, tracked as CVE-2023-20060 (CVSS score 6.1), affecting its Prime Collaboration Deployment product. The vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023
Zyxel fixed a critical RCE flaw in its firewall devices and urges customers to install the patches

A vulnerability impacting Zyxel firewalls, tracked as CVE-2023-28771, can be exploited to execute arbitary code on vulnerable devices. Researchers from TRAPA Security have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28771 (CVSS score 9.8), impacting Zyxel Firewall. The vulnerability is an improper error message handling in Zyxel ZyWALL/USG series firmware versions 4.60 through 4.73, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023
Ukraine cyber police arrested a man for selling data of 300M people

The Ukrainian cyber police arrested a Ukraine man for selling the data of over 300 million people from different countries. The Ukrainian cyber police have arrested a man (36) from the city of Netishyn for selling the personal data and sensitive information of over 300 million people from different countries. The man had information on […]