IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
Emsisoft releases free SynAck ransomware decryptor

Emsisoft researchers have released a decryptor for the SynAck Ransomware that could allow victims of the gang to decrypt their files for free Emsisoft has released a free decryptor for SynAck Ransomware that can allow victims of the gang to decrypt their encrypted files.<gwmw style=”display:none;”> Last week, the SynAck ransomware gang released the master decryption […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
Cloudflare mitigated the largest ever volumetric DDoS attack to date

Web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare announced to have mitigated the largest ever volumetric DDoS attack to date. Cloudflare, the web infrastructure and website security company, announced that it has mitigated the largest ever volumetric distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack to date. Volumetric DDoS attacks are designed to overwhelm internal network capacity and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) fixes High-Severity DoS flaw in BIND DNS Software

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) addressed a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) flaw (CVE-2021-25218) affecting the BIND DNS software. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates to address a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-25218, that affects its BIND DNS software. The vulnerability affects only BIND 9 releases 9.16.19, 9.17.16, and release 9.16.19-S1 of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
Mozi P2P Botnet also targets Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE devices

Mozi botnet continues to evolve, its authors implemented new capabilities to target Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE network gateways. Microsoft researchers reported that the Mozi botnet was improved by implementing news capabilities to target network gateways manufactured by Netgear, Huawei, and ZTE. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware, it appeared […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
Cisco warns of Server Name Identification data exfiltration flaw in multiple products

Unauthenticated attackers could bypass TLS inspection filtering solution in multiple products to exfiltrate data from previously compromised servers, Cisco warns. Cisco warns of a vulnerability in Server Name Identification (SNI) request filtering that affects multiple products (Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD), and the Snort detection engine) that could be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
637 flaws in industrial control system (ICS) products were published in H1 2021

During the first half of 2021, 637 vulnerabilities affecting industrial control system (ICS) products were published, affecting products from 76 vendors. Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty published its third Biannual ICS Risk & Vulnerability Report that analyzes the vulnerability landscape relevant to leading automation products used across the ICS domain. The company reported that during the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2021
Threat actors stole $97 million from Liquid cryptocurency exchange

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid was hit by a cyber attack, threat actors stole $97 Million worth of crypto-currency assets from the company. Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Liquid was hit by a cyber attack that resulted in the theft of $97 Million worth of crypto-currency assets from its warm wallets. Liquid confirmed that crooks stole various crypto-currency […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2021
Cisco will not patch critical flaw CVE-2021-34730 in EoF routers

Cisco has no plan to fix a critical code execution flaw (CVE-2021-34730) in small business RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W routers Cisco has no plan to address a critical code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-34730, that affects small business RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W routers. The CVE-2021-34730 flaw resides in the Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) service […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2021
Threat actors hacked US Census Bureau in 2020 by exploiting a Citrix flaw

Threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day vulnerability, OIG revealed. A report published by the US Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day flaw. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2021
New analysis of Diavol ransomware reinforces the link to TrickBot gang

Researchers conducted a new analysis of the Diavol ransomware and found new evidence of the link with the gang behind the TrickBot botnet. In July, researchers from Fortinet reported that a new ransomware family, tracked as Diavol, might have been developed by Wizard Spider, the cybercrime gang behind the TrickBot botnet. The Trickbot botnet was used by […]