Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2022
Russia’s second-largest bank VTB Bank reveals it is facing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in its history. State-owned VTB Bank, the second-largest financial institution in Russia, says it is facing the largest DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack in its history. The pro-Ukraine collective IT Army of Ukraine has claimed responsibility for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2022
Researchers discovered a security flaw in the connected vehicle service SiriusXM that exposes multiple car models to remote attacks. Cybersecurity researchers discovered a security vulnerability in the connected vehicle service provided by SiriusXM that can allow threat actors to remotely attack vehicles from multiple carmakers, including Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura. Researcher Sam Curry shared […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2022
Nicholas Truglia, from Florida, US, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing more than $20 million in a SIM swapping scheme. DoJ announced that Nicholas Truglia (25) was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the theft of over $20 million worth of cryptocurrency through SIM swapping attacks. The man was ordered to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2022
Resecurity has identified a new underground marketplace in the Dark Web oriented towards mobile malware developers and operators. “In the Box” dark web marketplace is leveraged by cybercriminals to attack over 300 financial institutions (FIs), payment systems, social media and online-retailers in 43 countries Resecurity, the California-based cybersecurity company protecting major Fortune 500 companies, has identified a new underground marketplace in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2022
A critical stack-based buffer overflow bug, tracked as CVE-2022-23093, in the ping service can allow to take over FreeBSD systems. The maintainers of the FreeBSD operating system released updates to address a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-23093, in the ping module that could be potentially exploited to gain remote code execution. The ping utility allows testing the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2022
The North Korea-linked Lazarus APT spreads fake cryptocurrency apps under the fake brand BloxHolder to install the AppleJeus malware. Volexity researchers warn of a new malware campaign conducted by the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT against cryptocurrency users. The threat actors were observed spreading fake cryptocurrency apps under the fake brand BloxHolder to deliver the AppleJeus […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2022
Law enforcement agencies can extract data from the infotainment systems of thousands of different car models. Data managed by infotainment systems in modern vehicles are a valuable source of information for the investigation of law enforcement agencies. Modern vehicles come with sophisticated infotainment systems that are connected online and that could represent an entry point […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2022
US DHS Cyber Safety Review Board will review attacks linked to the Lapsus$ extortion gang that hit multiple high-profile companies. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cyber Safety Review Board announced that it will review cyberattacks linked to the extortion gang Lapsus$, the gang breached multiple high-profile companies in recent years. “Today, the U.S. Department […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 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. Google fixed the ninth actively exploited Chrome zeroday this year A new Linux flaw can be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2022
Google released security updates to address a new Chrome zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, actively exploited in the wild. Google rolled out an emergency security update for the Chrome web browser to address a new zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, that is actively exploited. The CVE-2022-4262 vulnerability is a type confusion bug in the V8 […]
