Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2021
Researchers spotted a new botnet named Abcbot hat that mainly targeted Chinese cloud hosting providers over the past months. Security researchers discovered a new botnet, named Abcbot, that focused on Chinese cloud hosting providers over the past months. The list of targeted providers includes Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, Tencent, and Huawei Cloud. In November, researchers from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2021
A Russian national was extradited to the US from Switzerland after he was charged for trading information stolen from hacked U.S. companies. The Russian national Vladislav Klyushin (41) was extradited to the United States from Switzerland to face charges for his alleged role in a scheme whose participants traded on information stolen from U.S. companies. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2021
Microsoft warns of a couple of Active Directory flaws fixed with the November 2021 Patch Tuesday updates that could allow takeover of Windows domains. Microsoft released an alert on a couple of Active Directory vulnerabilities, that have been fixed with the November 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates, that could allow threat actors to takeover Windows domains. The flaws, tracked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2021
DarkWatchman is a new lightweight javascript-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that uses novel methods for fileless persistence. Recently Prevailion experts detected a malicious javascript-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed DarkWatchman that uses a robust Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) to contact the C2 infrastructure and novel methods for fileless persistence, on-system activity, and dynamic run-time capabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2021
An alleged APT group planted a backdoor in the network of a U.S. federal government commission associated with international rights. Experts spotted a backdoor in the network of an unnamed U.S. federal government commission associated with international rights. The backdoor allowed the threat actors to achieve complete control over the infected networks, experts described the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2021
Security researchers devised a new attack vector exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability on servers locally by using a JavaScript WebSocket connection. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Blumira devised a new attack vector that relies on a Javascript WebSocket connection to exploit the Log4Shell vulnerability on internal and locally exposed unpatched Log4j applications. Experts pointed out that this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2021
The TellYouThePass ransomware resurged and exploits the Apache Log4j flaw (Log4Shell) to target both Linux and Windows systems. Researchers from KnownSec 404 Team and Sangfor Threat Intelligence Team reported that the TellYouThePass ransomware resurged and is exploiting the Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 flaw to target both Linux and Windows systems. “On December 13, Sangfor’s terminal security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2021
My Cloud OS firmware is reaching the end of support, Western Digital customers have to update their WD My Cloud devices to the latest version. Western Digital is urging customers to update their WD My Cloud devices to the latest firmware version to continues receiving security updates on My Cloud OS firmware that is reaching […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2021
Multiple flaws in the Log4J library are scaring organizations worldwide while threat actors are already exploiting them. 2.17 is the third fix issued in a week. While the experts were warning that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-45046, disclosed in the Log4j library a third security vulnerability made the headlines. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2021
A cyber attack hit four affiliated online sports gear sites and resulted in the theft of credit cards for 1,813,224 customers. Threat actors have stolen credit cards belonging to 1,813,224 customers of four affiliated online sports gear sites. Below are the affected websites: Tackle Warehouse LLC (tacklewarehouse.com) – Fishing gear Running Warehouse LLC (runningwarehouse.com) – Running apparel […]
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