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Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2022

New improved versions of LodaRAT spotted in the wild

Cisco Talos spotted multiple updated versions of LodaRAT that were deployed alongside other malware families, including RedLine and Neshta. Researchers from Cisco Talos have monitored the LodaRAT malware over the course of 2022 and recently discovered multiple updated versions that have been deployed alongside other malware families, including RedLine and Neshta. The versions include new […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2022

Atlassian fixed 2 critical flaws in Crowd and Bitbucket products

Atlassian addressed this week two critical vulnerabilities impacting its Crowd and Bitbucket products. Atlassian announced the release of security updates to address critical-severity vulnerabilities in its identity management platform, Crowd Server and Data Center, and in the Bitbucket Server and Data Center, a self-managed solution that provides source code collaboration for professional teams. The vulnerability in […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2022

Hive Ransomware extorted over $100M in ransom payments from over 1,300 companies

Hive ransomware operators have extorted over $100 million in ransom payments from over 1,300 companies worldwide as of November 2022. The threat actors behind the Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) have extorted $100 million in ransom payments from over 1,300 companies worldwide as of November 2022, reported the U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence authorities. “As of November 2022, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2022

Ongoing supply chain attack targets Python developers with WASP Stealer

A threat actor tracked as WASP is behind an ongoing supply chain attack targeting Python developers with the WASP Stealer. Checkmarx researchers uncovered an ongoing supply chain attack conducted by a threat actor they tracked as WASP that is targeting Python developers. The attackers are using Python packages to distribute a polymorphic malware called W4SP […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2022

China-based Fangxiao group behind a long-running phishing campaign

A China-based financially motivated group, tracked as Fangxiao, is behind a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. Researchers from Cyjax reported that a China-based financially motivated group, dubbed Fangxiao, orchestrated a large-scale phishing campaign since 2017. The sophisticated phishing campaign exploits the reputation of international brands and targets businesses in multiple industries, including […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2022

Two public schools in Michigan hit by a ransomware attack

Public schools in two Michigan counties were forced to halt their activities, including the lessons, after a ransomware attack. Public schools in Jackson and Hillsdale counties, Michigan, reopen after a closure of two days caused by a ransomware attack that hit its systems. The public schools started experiencing a systems outage affecting critical operating […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2022

Magento and Adobe Commerce websites under attack

Researchers warn of a surge in cyberattacks targeting CVE-2022-24086, a pre-authentication issue impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento stores. In September 2022, Sansec researchers warned of a surge in hacking attempts targeting a critical Magento 2 vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-24086. Magento is a popular open-source e-commerce platform owned by Adobe, which is used by hundreds of thousands […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2022

Tank, the leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, was arrested by the Swiss police

A suspected leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Tank), was arrested by Swiss police. Swiss police last month arrested in Geneva Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (40), also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. “Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov, the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2022

Iran-linked threat actors compromise US Federal Network

Iran-linked threat actors compromised a Federal Civilian Executive Branch organization using a Log4Shell exploit and installed a cryptomining malware. According to a joint advisory published by the FBI and CISA, an Iran-linked APT group compromised a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization using an exploit for the Log4Shell flaw (CVE-2021-44228) and deployed a cryptomining malware. Log4Shell impacts […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2022

F5 fixed 2 high-severity Remote Code Execution bugs in its products

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Rapid7 have identified several vulnerabilities and other potential security issues affecting F5 products. Rapid7 researchers discovered several vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices running a customized distribution of CentOS. The experts also discovered several bypasses of security controls that the security vendor F5 does not recognize as exploitable vulnerabilities. The […]