Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2022
Retail giant Target is going to open-source an internal tool, dubbed Merry Maker, designed to detect e-skimming attacks. Retail giant Target announced the release in open-source of an internal tool, dubbed Merry Maker, designed to detect e-skimming attacks. Merry Maker is a tool designed by Target security developers Eric Brandel and Caleb Walch (@ebrandel and @cawalch) to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2022
The Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group attempted to compromise an unnamed Western government entity in Ukraine. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 reported that the Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group attempted to compromise an unnamed Western government entity operating in Ukraine in January, while geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine have escalated dramatically. In Mid January the Ukrainian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2022
An alleged Chinese threat actor is actively attempting to exploit a zero-day vulnerability in the Zimbra open-source email platform. An alleged Chinese threat actor, tracked as TEMP_Heretic, is actively attempting to exploit a zero-day XSS vulnerability in the Zimbra open-source email platform. The zero-day vulnerability impacts almost any Zimbra install running version 8.8.15. Researchers from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2022
Office 365 and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) customers were the targets of billions of brute-force and phishing attacks last year. Microsoft revealed that Office 365 and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) customers were the targets of billions of phishing emails and brute force attacks last year. The IT giant added has blocked more than 25.6 billion Azure AD […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
Cisco released security patches to address multiple flaws in its Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 series routers. Cisco announced patches for multiple issue affecting its Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 series routers. Some of the bugs fixed by the IT giant could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with root […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
A China-linked APT group tracked as Antlion used a custom backdoor called xPack that was undetected for months. A China-linked APT group tracked as Antlion is using a custom backdoor called xPack in attacks aimed at financial organizations and manufacturing companies, Symantec researchers reported. The backdoor was undetected for at least 18 months in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
Threat actors have stolen $325Â million in cryptocurrency leveraging a bug in the Wormhole communication bridge. Wormhole, one of the most popular bridges that links the Ethereum and Solana blockchains, lost about $325 million in an attack that took place on Wednesday. This is the second-biggest hack of a DeFi platform ever, just after the $600 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2022
Trend Micro recently addressed two high-severity flaws affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. Trend Micro released security updates to fix two high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-23119 and CVE-2022-23120, affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. The vulnerabilities affect Deep Security and Cloud One workload security solutions. The flaws were reported by the cybersecurity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2022
Security researcher discovered an Information Disclosure vulnerability in Brave browser and reported it through the HackerOne platform. Security researcher Kirtikumar Anandrao Ramchandani discovered an Information Disclosure vulnerability in the Brave Browser and reported it to the company through the HackerOne platform. The researcher discovered that when the browser is used with Tor it could leak […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2022
Cyber security team at retail giant Walmart dissected a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which implements a ransomware-as-a-service model. The cyber threat team at retail giant Walmart has analyzed a new ransomware family dubbed Sugar, which is offered through a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model. Unlike other ransomware operations, Sugar ransomware appears to primarily focus on individual […]
