IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2021
Swarmshop – What goes around comes around: hackers leak other hackers’ data online

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, discovered that user data of the Swarmshop card shop have been leaked online on March 17, 2021. The database was posted on a different underground forum and contained 12,344 records of the card shop admins, sellers and buyers including their nicknames, hashed passwords, contact details, history of activity, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2021
Pwn2Own 2021 Day 2 – experts earned $200K for a zero-interaction Zoom exploit

Pwn2Own 2021 – Day 2: a security duo earned $200,000 for a zero-interaction Zoom exploit allowing remote code execution. One of the most interesting working exploits of the second day of the Pwn2Own 2021 was demonstrated by security researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade from Computest. The duo successfully targeted Zoom Messenger in the Enterprise […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2021
Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online, 2 million records leaked as proof

Days after a massive Facebook data leak made the headlines, 500 million LinkedIn users are being sold online, seller leaked 2 million records as proof. Original Post at https://cybernews.com/news/stolen-data-of-500-million-linkedin-users-being-sold-online-2-million-leaked-as-proof-2/ An archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2021
User database was also hacked in the recent hack of PHP ‘s Git Server

The maintainers of the PHP programming language confirmed that threat actors may have compromised a user database containing their passwords. The maintainers of the PHP programming language have provided an update regarding the security breach that took place on March 28. Unknown attackers hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2021
Man arrested after hired a hitman on the dark web

A joint operation of Europol and the Italian Postal and Communication Police resulted in the arrest of an Italian national who hired a hitman on the dark web. Europol and the Italian Postal and Communication Police (Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni) arrested an Italian national as part of the “Operation Hitman” because he is suspected […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2021
New Cring ransomware deployed targeting unpatched Fortinet VPN devices

Attackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 flaw in Fortinet VPN to deploy the Cring ransomware to organizations in the industrial sector. Threat actors are actively exploiting the CVE-2018-13379 vulnerability in Fortinet VPNs to deploy a new piece of ransomware, tracked as Cring ransomware (also known as Crypt3r, Vjiszy1lo, Ghost, Phantom), to organizations in the industrial sector. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2021
Pwn2Own 2021 Day 1 – participants earned more than $500k

The Pwn2Own 2021 hacking competition has begun and white hat hackers participants earned more than $500000 on the first day. The Pwn2Own 2021 has begun, this year the formula for the popular hacking competition sees the distribution of the participants amongst various locations. The competition’s organizer, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), describes this year’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2021
European Commission and other institutions were hit by a major cyber-attack

Not only the European Commission, but many other organizations of the European Union have been targeted by a cyberattack in March. A European Commission spokesperson confirmed that the European Commission, along with other European Union organizations, was hit by a cyberattack in March. The authorities did not disclose any details about the type of threats […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2021
SAP systems are targeted within 72 hours after updates are released

On-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released, security SAP security firm Onapsis warns. According to a joint study published by Onapsis and SAP, on-premises SAP systems are targeted by threat actors within 72 hours after security patches are released. Threat actors perform reverse-engineering of the SAP […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2021
Chinese Cycldek APT targets Vietnamese Military and Government in sophisticated attacks

China-linked APT group Cycldek is behind an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting entities in the government and military sector in Vietnam. China-linked APT group LuckyMouse (aka Cycldek, Goblin Panda, Hellsing, APT 27, and Conimes) is targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam with spear-phishing. The threat actors are sending out spear-phishing messages to compromise diplomatic targets in Southeast […]