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Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2022
VMware Issues Patches for Critical Flaws Affecting Carbon Black App Control

VMware addressed two critical arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities affecting its Carbon Black App Control platform. VMware released this week, software updates to address two critical security vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-22951 and CVE-2022-22952 (both received a CVSS score of 10), affecting its Carbon Black App Control platform that could be exploited by a threat actor to execute arbitrary […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2022
Anonymous claims to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia

The Anonymous hacker collective claims to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia and stole accessed 35,000 documents. Anonymous continues to target Russian government organizations and private businesses, now it is claiming to have hacked the Central Bank of Russia. The popular hacker collective claims to have compromised the systems of the Central Bank of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2022
Okta says 375 customers impacted by the hack, but Lapsus$ gang says it is lying

The provider of access management systems Okta confirmed the data breach and revealed that 2.5% of its customers were impacted. This week Lapsus$ extortion group claimed to have stolen sensitive data from the identity and access management giant Okta solutions. The gang announced the alleged hack through its Telegram channel and shared a series of screenshots […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2022
Ukrainian enterprises hit with the DoubleZero wiper

Ukraine CERT-UA warns of cyberattack aimed at Ukrainian enterprises using the a wiper dubbed DoubleZero. Ukraine CERT-UA continues to observe malware based attacks aimed at Ukrainian organizations, in a recent alert it warned of attacks employing a wiper dubbed DoubleZero. The government CERT started observing this campaign on March 17, 2022, threat actors launched spear-phishing […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2022
FBI warns of growing risks of Russia-linked attacks on US energy firms

The FBI is warning of risks related to cyber attacks aimed at energy companies of Russia-linked threat actors. The FBI is warning energy companies of the risks of cyber attacks carried out by Russia-linked threat actors, reported The Associated Press. The Associated Press has access to a security advisory issued by the FBI that reports […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2022
It’s official, Lapsus$ gang compromised a Microsoft employee’s account

Microsoft confirmed that Lapsus$ extortion group has hacked one of its employees to access and steal the source code of some projects. Microsoft confirmed that Lapsus$ extortion group has hacked one of its employees to access and steal the source code of some projects. Yesterday the cybercrime gang leaked 37GB of source code stolen from […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2022
Anonymous hacked Nestlè and leaked 10 GB of sensitive

The popular Anonymous hacktivist collective announced to have hacked Nestlè and leaked 10 GB of sensitive data because the food and beverage giant continued to operate in Russia. The popular Anonymous hacktivist collective recently declared war on all companies that decided to continue to operate in Russia by paying taxes to the Russian government. Nestlè […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2022
A new wave of DeadBolt Ransomware attacks hit QNAP NAS devices

Internet search engine Censys reported a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks targeting QNAP NAS devices. Internet search engine Censys reported that QNAP devices were targeted in a new wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks. Since January, DeadBolt ransomware operators are targeting QNAP NAS devices worldwide, its operators claim the availability of a zero-day exploit that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2022
Three critical RCE flaws affect hundreds of HP printer models

Three critical RCE flaws affect hundreds of HP LaserJet Pro, Pagewide Pro, OfficeJet, Enterprise, Large Format, and DeskJet printer models. HP issued a security bulletin warning of a buffer overflow vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3942 (CVSS score 8.4), that could lead to remote code execution on vulnerable devices. “Certain HP Print products and Digital Sending products may […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2022
Lapsus$ extortion gang claims to have stolen sensitive data from Okta

The Lapsus$ extortion group claims to have stolen sensitive data from the identity and access management giant Okta solutions. The gang announced the alleged hack through its Telegram channel and shared a series of screenshots as proof of the hack. Some of the images published by the threat actors appear to be related to the company’s […]