IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2023
P2PInfect, a Rusty P2P worm targets Redis Servers on Linux and Windows systems

Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new peer-to-peer (P2P) worm called P2PInfect that targets Redis servers. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have discovered a new peer-to-peer (P2P) worm called P2PInfect that targets Redis servers running on both Linux and Windows systems. The capability to target Redis servers running on both Linux and Windows operating systems makes P2PInfect more scalable and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2023
Adobe out-of-band update addresses an actively exploited ColdFusion zero-day

Adobe released an emergency update to address critical vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, including an actively exploited zero-day. Adobe released an out-of-band update to address critical and moderate vulnerabilities in ColdFusion, including a zero-day flaw that is actively exploited in attacks.  The vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution and security feature bypass. The impacted ColdFusion versions are 2023, 2021 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2023
Ukraine’s cyber police dismantled a massive bot farm spreading propaganda

The Cyber ​​Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine dismantled a massive bot farm and seized 150,000 SIM cards. A gang of more than 100 individuals used fake social network accounts to conduct disinformation and psychological operations in support of the Russian government and its narrative on the invasion of Ukraine. The gang used […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2023
US Gov adds surveillance firms Cytrox and Intellexa to Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits

The U.S. government added surveillance technology vendors Cytrox and Intellexa to an economic blocklist for trafficking in cyber exploits. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added surveillance technology vendors Intellexa and Cytrox to the Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems. The Entity List maintained […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2023
Citrix warns of actively exploited zero-day in ADC and Gateway

Citrix is warning customers of an actively exploited critical vulnerability in NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway. Citrix is warning customers of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3519 (CVSS score: 9.8), in NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway that is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3519 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a code injection that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2023
FIA World Endurance Championship driver passports leaked

Le Mans Endurance Management, operating the FIA World Endurance Championship’s website, exposed the data of hundreds of drivers by leaking their IDs and drivers’ licenses, the Cybernews research team has discovered. On June 16th, our researchers came across two misconfigured, meaning publicly exposed, Google Cloud Storage buckets. Both combined, they contained over 1.1 million files. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2023
Virustotal data leak exposed data of some registered customers, including intelligence members

The online malware scanning service VirusTotal leaked data associated with some registered customers, German newspapers reported. German newspapers Der Spiegel and Der Standard reported that the online malware scanning service VirusTotal leaked data associated with some registered customers. At the end of June, a small file of 313 kilobytes containing a list of 5,600 names was exposed online. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2023
FIN8 Group spotted delivering the BlackCat Ransomware

The cybercrime group FIN8 is using a revamped version of the Sardonic backdoor to deliver the BlackCat ransomware. The financially motivated group FIN8 (aka Syssphinx) was spotted using a revamped version of a backdoor tracked as Sardonic to deliver the BlackCat ransomware (aka Noberus ransomware). Sardonic is a sophisticated backdoor that supports a wide range of features that was designed […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2023
Hacking campaign targets sites using WordPress WooCommerce Payments Plugin

Threat actors are actively exploiting a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-28121, in the WooCommerce Payments WordPress plugin. Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28121 (CVSS score: 9.8), in the WooCommerce Payments WordPress plugin. The flaw is an authentication bypass issue that can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate arbitrary […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2023
JumpCloud revealed it was hit by a sophisticated attack by a nation-state actor

Software firm JumpCloud announced it was the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack carried out by a nation-state actor. JumpCloud is a cloud-based directory service platform designed to manage user identities, devices, and applications in a seamless and secure manner. It allows IT administrators to centralize and simplify their identity and access management tasks across […]