Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2021
Threat actors targeted are exploiting the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange servers to deploy Monero cryptocurrency miners. Sophos researchers reported that threat actors targeted Microsoft Exchange by exploiting ProxyLogon vulnerabilities to deploy malicious Monero cryptominer in an unusual attack. The unknown attacker is attempting to deliver a payload which is being hosted on a compromised […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2021
Fedir Hladyr (35), a Ukrainian national was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his role in the financially motivated group FIN7, aka Carbanak. The Ukrainian national Fedir Hladyr (35), aka “das” or “AronaXus,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having served as a manager and systems administrator for the financially motivated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2021
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Is the recent accident at Iran Natanz nuclear plant a cyber attack? Joker malware infected 538,000 Huawei Android devices Personal data of 1.3 million Clubhouse users leaked online Fitch Ratings: […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2021
Experts warn of malware campaigns delivering the BazarLoader malware abusing popular collaboration tools like Slack and BaseCamp. Since January, researchers observed malware campaigns delivering the BazarLoader malware abusing popular collaboration tools like Slack and BaseCamp. The campaigns aimed at employees of large organizations, the messages attempt to trick the victims that they contain important information […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2021
Google Project Zero security team has updated its vulnerability disclosure policy, it gives users 30 days to patch flaws before disclosing associated technical details. The Google Project Zero security team announced an update to its vulnerability disclosure policy, it could include additional 30 days to the disclosure process for some bugs to give end-users enough […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2021
SolarWinds supply chain attack also impacted six European Union institutions, European Commissioner for Budget and Administration confirmed. European Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn confirmed the hack of some EU agencies as result of the SolarWinds supply chain attack in a response to a question filed by an EU Parliament member in February 2021. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2021
Cybersecurity provider Juniper Networks addressed a critical vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to remotely hijack or disrupt vulnerable devices. Cybersecurity vendor Juniper Networks addressed a critical vulnerability in Junos OS, tracked as CVE-2021-0254, that could allow an attacker to remotely hijack or disrupt affected devices. This flaw stems from the improper buffer size […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2021
The US government warned that Russian cyber espionage group SVR is exploiting five known vulnerabilities in enterprise infrastructure products. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have published a joint advisory that warns that Russia-linked APT group SVR (aka APT29, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes). […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2021
Uptycs’ threat research team recently detected several variants of the Linux-based botnet malware family, “Gafgyt,”some of them re-used Mirai code. Uptycs’ threat research team recently detected several variants of the Linux-based botnet malware family, “Gafgyt”, via threat intelligence systems and our in-house osquery-based sandbox. Upon analysis, we identified several codes, techniques and implementations of Gafgyt, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2021
Group-IB observed the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group stealing cryptocurrency using a never-before-seen tool. In the last five years, JavaScript sniffers have grown into one of the most dangerous threats for e-commerce businesses. The simple nature of such attacks combined with the use of malicious JavaScript code for intercepting payment data attract more and more […]
