IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2024
LoanDepot data breach impacted roughly 16.6 individuals

Financial services company LoanDepot disclosed a data breach that impacted roughly 16.6 million individuals. LoanDepot is a financial services company that primarily operates as a mortgage lender. It is one of the largest nonbank lenders in the United States. The company provides a range of mortgage and non-mortgage loan products and services. LoanDepot disclosed this […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2024
Black Basta gang claims the hack of the UK water utility Southern Water

The Black Basta ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the UK water utility Southern Water, a major player in the UK water industry. Southern Water is a private utility company responsible for collecting and treating wastewater in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex and Kent, and for providing public water supply to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2024
CISA adds VMware vCenter Server bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds VMware vCenter Server Out-of-Bounds Write bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a VMware vCenter Server Out-of-Bounds Write bug, tracked as CVE-2023-34048, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. vCenter Server is a critical component in VMware virtualization and cloud computing […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2024
Mother of all breaches – a historic data leak reveals 26 billion records: check what’s exposed

Cybersecurity researcher Bob Dyachenko and CyberNews researchers discovered the largest data leak ever discovered. The supermassive leak contains data from numerous previous breaches, comprising an astounding 12 terabytes of information, spanning over a mind-boggling 26 billion records. The leak is almost certainly the largest ever discovered. There are data leaks, and then there’s this. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2024
Apple fixed actively exploited zero-day CVE-2024-23222

Apple addressed the first zero-day vulnerability that impacts iPhones, Macs, and Apple TVs. The issue is actively exploited in the wild. Apple released security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23222, that impacts iPhones, Macs, and Apple TVs. This is the first actively exploited zero-day vulnerability fixed by the company this year. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2024
“My Slice”, an Italian adaptive phishing campaign

Adaptive phishing campaigns are emerging as an increasingly sophisticated threat in the cybersecurity landscape. The phenomenon This phenomenon represents an evolution of traditional phishing tactics, as attackers seek to overcome defenses using more personalized and targeted approaches. In an adaptive phishing campaign, attackers gather specific information about victims through various sources, such as social media, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2024
Threat actors exploit Apache ActiveMQ flaw to deliver the Godzilla Web Shell

Researchers warn of a spike in attacks exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to deliver the Godzilla web shell. Trustwave researchers observed a surge in attacks exploiting a now-patched flaw in Apache ActiveMQ, in many cases aimed at delivering a malicious code that borrows the code from the open-source web shell Godzilla. Threat actors conceal […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2024
Cybercriminals leaked massive volumes of stolen PII data from Thailand in Dark Web

Resecurity researchers warn of massive leak of stolen Thai personally identifiable information (PII) on the dark web by cybercriminals. Resecurity has detected a noticeable increase in data leaks from consumer-focused platforms in Thailand, confirming that threat actors are actively targeting the personal data of citizens now at the beginning of 2024. Thailand is swiftly becoming […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2024
Backdoored pirated applications targets Apple macOS users

Researchers warned that pirated applications have been employed to deliver a backdoor to Apple macOS users. Jamf Threat Labs researchers warned that pirated applications have been utilized to distribute a backdoor to Apple macOS users. The researchers noticed that the apps appear similar to ZuRu malware, they allow operators to download and execute multiple payloads […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2024
LockBit ransomware gang claims the attack on the sandwich chain Subway

The LockBit ransomware gang claimed to have hacked Subway, the American multinational fast food restaurant franchise.  Subway IP LLC is an American multinational fast-food restaurant franchise that specializes in submarine sandwiches (subs), wraps, salads, and drinks. The Lockbit ransomware group added Subway to the list of victims on its Tor data leak site and threatened to leak […]