Ukraine CERT-UA spotted a spear-phishing campaign conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT targeting local state organizations. Ukraine CERT-UA published a security advisory to warn of spear-phishing attacks conducted by Russia-linked Armageddon APT (aka Gamaredon, Primitive Bear, Armageddon, Winterflounder, or Iron Tilden) targeting local state organizations. The phishing messages have been sent from “vadim_melnik88@i[.]ua,” the campaign aims at […]
The U.S. CISA added the recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability Spring4Shell to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the recently disclosed CVE-2022-22965 (aka Spring4Shell, CVSS score: 9.8) flaw in the Spring Framework, along with three other issues, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) […]
Threat actors gained access to internal tools of the email marketing giant MailChimp to conduct phishing attacks against crypto customers. During the weekend, multiple owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets reported having received fake data breach notifications from Trezor, BleepingComputer first reported. The fake data breach notification emails urged Trezort customers to reset the PIN of […]
Boffins devised a new attack technique, dubbed Brokenwire, against the Combined Charging System (CCS) that could potentially disrupt charging for electric vehicles. A group of researchers from the University of Oxford and Armasuisse S+T has devised a new attack technique, dubbed Brokenwire, against the popular Combined Charging System (CCS) that could be exploited by remote […]
The China-linked hacking group Deep Panda is targeting VMware Horizon servers with the Log4Shell exploit to install a new Fire Chili rootkit. Researchers from Fortinet have observed the Chinese APT group Deep Panda exploiting a Log4Shell exploit to compromise VMware Horizon servers and deploy previously undetected Fire Chili rootkit. The experts observed opportunistic attacks against organizations […]
This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. Apr 02 – Anonymous leaked 15 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian Orthodox Church Anonymous claims to have hacked the Russian Orthodox Church ‘s charitable wing and leaked 15 GB of alleged stolen […]
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Anonymous leaked 15 GB of data allegedly stolen from the Russian Orthodox Church UK […]
Anonymous claims to have hacked the Russian Orthodox Church ‘s charitable wing and leaked 15 GB of alleged stolen data. Anonymous continues to target Russian government entities and private businesses, this week the group claimed to have hacked the private firms Thozis Corp and Marathon Group owned by oligarchs. Now the collective announced the hack of the […]
The City of London Police charged two of the seven teenagers who were arrested for their alleged role in the LAPSUS$ data extortion gang. The duo has been released on bail after appearing in the Highbury Corner Magistrates Court court on Friday. The City of London Police charged two of the seven teenagers recently arrested […]
Operators behind the Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) added exploits for Totolink routers. The Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet Beastmode (aka B3astmode) now includes exploits for Totolink routers. Like most DDOS botnets, Beastmode attempt to infect other devices by launching brute-forcing attacks or exploiting multiple vulnerabilities. Between February and March 2022, researchers from the FortiGuard Labs […]