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Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022
Anonymous hacked Russia’s Ministry of Culture and leaked 446 GB

The Anonymous collective has hacked Russia’s Ministry of Culture and leaked 446 GB of data through the DDoSecrets platform. Data leak service DDoSecrets has published over 700 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian government, including over 500,000 emails. The dump includes three datasets, the largest one is related to the Ministry of Culture […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022
FFDroider, a new information-stealing malware disguised as Telegram app

Cybersecurity researchers spotted a new Windows information-stealing malware, named FFDroider, designed to steal credentials and cookies. Cybersecurity researchers from Zscaler ThreatLabz warn of a new information-stealing malware, named FFDroider, that disguises itself as the popular instant messaging app Telegram. The malware was derived to siphon credentials and cookies from infected machines. “Recently, ThreatLabz identified a novel windows […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022
Dependency Review GitHub Action prevents adding known flaws in the code

Dependency Review GitHub Action scans users’ pull requests for dependency changes and will raise an error if any new dependencies have existing flaws. GitHub announced Dependency Review GitHub Action which scans users’ pull requests for dependency changes and will raise an error if any new dependencies have existing flaws that can be exploited in supply […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2022
Securing Easy Appointments and earning CVE-2022-0482

Easy Appointments contained a very dangerous Broken Access Control vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-0482 that was exposing PII. Another day, another threat to your data. The recently discovered CVE-2022-0482 is a Broken Access Control vulnerability affecting Easy Appointments, a popular open-source web app written in PHP, used by thousands of sites to manage their online bookings. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2022
Apr 03 – Apr 09 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Below is the timeline of the events related to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine that occurred in the previous weeks: April 8 – Anonymous and the IT ARMY of Ukraine continue to target Russian entities […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2022
NB65 group targets Russia with a modified version of Conti’s ransomware

NB65 hacking group created its ransomware based on the leaked source code of the Conti ransomware and targets Russia. According to BleepingComputer, NB65 hacking group is targeting Russian organizations with ransomware that they have developed using the leaked source code of the Conti ransomware. The NB65 hacking group, since the beginning of the invasion, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 360 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs 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. A DDoS attack took down Finnish govt sites as Ukraine’s President addresses MPs SharkBot […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2022
A DDoS attack took down Finnish govt sites as Ukraine’s President addresses MPs

A massive DDoS attack took down Finnish government websites while Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addressed Finland’s members of parliament (MPs). On April 8, a denial-of-service attack took down the websites of the Finnish ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs. The attack started at about noon, while Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addressed Finland’s members of parliament (MPs). “A […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2022
SharkBot Banking Trojan spreads through fake AV apps on Google Play

Experts discovered malicious Android apps on the Google Play Store masqueraded as antivirus solutions spreading the SharkBot Trojan. Researchers from the Check Point Research (CPR) team discovered several malicious Android apps on the official Google Play Store masqueraded as antivirus solutions that were used to deliver the SharkBot banking Trojan. Sharkbot is an information stealer steals used […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2022
China-linked threat actors target Indian Power Grid organizations

China-linked threat actors continue to target Indian power grid organizations, most of the attacks involved the ShadowPad backdoor. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group researchers uncovered a campaign conducted by a China-linked threat actor targeting Indian power grid organizations. The security firm is tracking this cluster of malicious activities under the moniker Threat Activity Group 38 aka […]