information security news

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2022
New York Post hacked? No, the culprit is an employee

Threat actors hacked the website and Twitter account of the New York Post and published offensive messages against US politicians. New York Post confirmed that it was hacked, its website and Twitter account were used by the attackers to publish offensive messages targeting US politicians and a call for the assassination of US President Joe […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2022
Raspberry Robin operators are selling initial access to compromised enterprise networks to ransomware gangs

DEV-0950 group used Clop ransomware to encrypt the network of organizations previously infected with the Raspberry Robin worm. Microsoft has discovered recent activity that links the Raspberry Robin worm to human-operated ransomware attacks.  Data collected by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint shows that nearly 3,000 devices in almost 1,000 organizations have seen at least one RaspberryRobin […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2022
Thomson Reuters collected and leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data

The multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data exposed online Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/thomson-reuters-leaked-terabytes-sensitive-data/ Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format. Attackers could use the details for a supply-chain attack. The Cybernews […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2022
SiriSpy flaw allows eavesdropping on users’ conversations with Siri

SiriSpy is a vulnerability affecting Apple iOS and macOS that allowed apps to eavesdrop on users’ conversations with Siri. SiriSpy is a now-patched vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-32946, in Apple’s iOS and macOS that could have potentially allowed any app with access to Bluetooth to eavesdrop on conversations with Siri and audio. “An app may be […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2022
See Tickets discloses data breach, customers’ credit card data exposed

International ticketing services company See Tickets disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ payment card details. Ticketing service company See Tickets disclosed a data breach, and threat actors might have accessed customers’ payment card details. Threat actors were able to steal payment card data by implanting a software skimmer on its website. The company discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2022
VMware fixes critical RCE in VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation tracked as CVE-2021-39144. VMware has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-39144 (CVSSv3 9.8), in VMware Cloud Foundation. VMware Cloud Foundation™ is the industry’s most advanced hybrid cloud platform. It provides a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2022
Experts disclosed a 22-year-old bug in popular SQLite Database library

A high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737, has been disclosed in the SQLite database library. The security expert Andreas Kellas detailed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the SQLite database library, which was introduced in October 2000. The CVE-2022-35737 flaw is an integer overflow issue that impacts SQLite versions 1.0.12 through 3.39.1. The vulnerability was […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2022
Two PoS Malware used to steal data from more than 167,000 credit cards

Researchers reported that threat actors used 2 PoS malware variants to steal information about more than 167,000 credit cards. Cybersecurity firm Group-IB discovered two PoS malware to steal data associated with more than 167,000 credit cards from point-of-sale payment terminals. On April 19, 2022, Group-IB researchers identified the C2 server of the POS malware called MajikPOS. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2022
Hive ransomware gang starts leaking data allegedly stolen from Tata Power

The Hive ransomware gang, which claimed the responsibility for the Tata Power data breach, started leaking data. On October 14, Tata Power, India’s largest power generation company, announced that was hit by a cyber attack. Threat actors hit the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure of the company. The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2022
Apple fixed the ninth actively exploited zero-day this year

Apple released security updates that addressed the ninth zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in the wild since the start of the year.  Apple has addressed the ninth zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks in the wild since the start of the year. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42827, is an out-of-bounds write issue that can be exploited by an attacker to […]