IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2025
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 75 actively exploited zero-day flaws in 2024

Google tracked 75 zero-day flaws exploited in 2024, down from 98 in 2023, according to its Threat Intelligence Group’s latest analysis. In 2024, Google tracked 75 exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022. The researchers from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed that most targeted are end-user platforms, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2025
U.S. CISA adds Qualitia Active! Mail, Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS, and Commvault Web Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Qualitia Active! Mail, Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS, and Commvault Web Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Qualitia Active! Mail, Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS, and Commvault Web Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2025
The Turmoil Following BreachForums Shutdown: Confusion, Risks, and a New Beginning

BreachForums, a major data leak marketplace, shut down on April 15 after a MyBB 0-day exploit allowed law enforcement infiltration. On April 15, BreachForums, one of the top marketplaces for stolen data, abruptly shut down, fueling widespread speculation. Rumors ranged from FBI raids and the arrest of the administrator. In the aftermath, several alternative forums […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2025
A large-scale phishing campaign targets WordPress WooCommerce users

A large-scale phishing campaign targets WordPress WooCommerce users with a fake security alert urging them to download a ‘critical patch’ hiding a backdoor. Patchstack researchers uncovered a large-scale phishing campaign targeting WordPress WooCommerce users with a fake security alert. Threat actors urge recipients to download a “critical patch” that hides a backdoor. The experts noted […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2025
PoC rootkit Curing evades traditional Linux detection systems

Researchers created a PoC rootkit called Curing that uses Linux’s io_uring feature to evade traditional system call monitoring. Armo researchers have demonstrated a proof-of-concept (PoC) rootkit named Curing that relies on Linux asynchronous I/O mechanism io_uring to bypass traditional system call monitoring. “Curing is a POC of a rootkit that uses io_uring to perform different tasks without using any syscalls, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2025
Attackers chained Craft CMS zero-days attacks in the wild

Orange Cyberdefense’s CSIRT reported that threat actors exploited two vulnerabilities in Craft CMS to breach servers and steal data. Orange Cyberdefense’s CSIRT warns that threat actors chained two Craft CMS vulnerabilities in recent attacks. Orange experts discovered the flaws while investigating a server compromise. The two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-32432 and CVE-2024-58136, are respectively a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2025
Storm-1977 targets education sector with password spraying, Microsoft warns

Microsoft warns that threat actor Storm-1977 is behind password spraying attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Storm-1977, using AzureChecker.exe to launch password spray attacks against cloud tenants in the education sector. AzureChecker.exe connected to sac-auth[.]nodefunction[.]vip to download AES-encrypted data, which, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2025
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 43

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Inside Gamaredon’s PteroLNK: Dead Drop Resolvers and evasive Infrastructure XRP supply chain attack: Official NPM package infected with crypto stealing backdoor  SuperCard X: exposing a Chinese-speaker MaaS for NFC Relay fraud operation  New Rust Botnet “RustoBot” […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2025
Security Affairs newsletter Round 521 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. African multinational telco giant MTN Group disclosed a data breach CEO of cybersecurity firm charged with installing malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2025
African multinational telco giant MTN Group disclosed a data breach

African multinational telecommunications company MTN Group disclosed a data breach that exposed subscribers’ personal information. MTN Group Limited is a South African multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Johannesburg. Founded in 1994, it has grown to become Africa’s largest mobile network operator, serving over 290 million subscribers across 18 countries in Africa and the Middle East. […]