IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2022
Cybercriminals Deliver IRS Tax Scams & Phishing Campaigns By Mimicking Government Vendors

Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. Cybercriminals are leveraging advanced tactics in their phishing-kits granting them a high delivery success rate of spoofed e-mails which contain malicious attachments right before the end of the 2021 IRS income tax return deadline in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2022
Static SSH host key in Cisco Umbrella allows stealing admin credentials

Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) that could allow stealing admin credentials. Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA), tracked as CVE-2022-20773, that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to steal admin credentials remotely. Umbrella is Cisco’s cloud-based Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2022
CVE-2022-20685 flaw in the Modbus preprocessor of the Snort makes it unusable

CVE-2022-20685 flaw in the Modbus preprocessor of the Snort detection engine could trigger a DoS condition and make it ineffective against malicious traffic. Snort is a free open source network intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS)  which is currently developed by Cisco. The software performs real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, protocol analysis, content searching and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2022
US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the UK warn of Russia-linked threat actors’ attacks

Cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warn of cyberattacks conducted by Russia-linked threat actors on critical infrastructure. Cybersecurity agencies of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom) issued a joint advisory warning of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure conducted by Russia-linked threat actors and criminal cyber threats. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2022
Russian Gamaredon APT continues to target Ukraine

Russia-linked threat actor Gamaredon targets Ukraine with new variants of the custom Pterodo backdoor. Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group (a.k.a. Armageddon, Primitive Bear, and ACTINIUM) continues to target Ukraine and it is using new variants of the custom Pterodo backdoor (aka Pteranodon). The cyberespionage group is behind a recent series of spear-phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities and organizations related to Ukrainian […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2022
Anonymous hacked other Russian organizations, some of the breaches could be severe

The Anonymous collective and affiliate groups intensify their attacks and claimed to have breached multiple organizations. Anonymous and groups linked to the famous collective continues to target Russian organizations, the hacktivist are breaching their systems and leak stolen data online. Below the organizations breached in the last three days, since my previous update: Tendertech is […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2022
CISA adds Windows Print Spooler to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Windows Print Spooler vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the Windows Print Spooler, tracked as CVE-2022-22718, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2022
New BotenaGo variant specifically targets Lilin security camera DVR devices

Researchers spotted a new variant of the BotenaGo botnet malware that is considered highly evasive and has a zero-detection rate. The BotenaGo botnet was first spotted in November 2021 by researchers at AT&T, the malicious code leverages thirty-three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. BotenaGo was written in Golang (Go) and at the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2022
QNAP users are recommended to disable UPnP port forwarding on routers

QNAP urges customers to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) port forwarding on their routers to secure their NAS devices. Taiwanese vendor QNAP urges customers to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) port forwarding on their routers to protect their network-attached storage (NAS) devices from attacks. UPnP is an insecure protocol, it uses network UDP […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2022
ESET warns of three flaws that affect over 100 Lenovo notebook models

Lenovo warns of vulnerabilities in its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) shipped with at least 100 notebook models. Lenovo has published a security advisory to warn customers of vulnerabilities that affect its Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) loaded on at least 100 of its notebook models, including IdeaPad 3, Legion 5 Pro-16ACH6 H, and Yoga […]