Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2022
Cisco Talos spotted multiple updated versions of LodaRAT that were deployed alongside other malware families, including RedLine and Neshta. Researchers from Cisco Talos have monitored the LodaRAT malware over the course of 2022 and recently discovered multiple updated versions that have been deployed alongside other malware families, including RedLine and Neshta. The versions include new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2022
Hive ransomware operators have extorted over $100 million in ransom payments from over 1,300 companies worldwide as of November 2022. The threat actors behind the Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) have extorted $100 million in ransom payments from over 1,300 companies worldwide as of November 2022, reported the U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence authorities. “As of November 2022, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2022
A threat actor tracked as WASP is behind an ongoing supply chain attack targeting Python developers with the WASP Stealer. Checkmarx researchers uncovered an ongoing supply chain attack conducted by a threat actor they tracked as WASP that is targeting Python developers. The attackers are using Python packages to distribute a polymorphic malware called W4SP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2022
Public schools in two Michigan counties were forced to halt their activities, including the lessons, after a ransomware attack. Public schools in Jackson and Hillsdale counties, Michigan, reopen after a closure of two days caused by a ransomware attack that hit its systems. The public schools started experiencing a systems outage affecting critical operating […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2022
Researchers warn of a surge in cyberattacks targeting CVE-2022-24086, a pre-authentication issue impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento stores. In September 2022, Sansec researchers warned of a surge in hacking attempts targeting a critical Magento 2 vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-24086. Magento is a popular open-source e-commerce platform owned by Adobe, which is used by hundreds of thousands […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2022
A suspected leader of the Zeus cybercrime gang, Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Tank), was arrested by Swiss police. Swiss police last month arrested in Geneva Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (40), also known as Tank, which is one of the leaders of the JabberZeus cybercrime group. “Vyacheslav “Tank” Penchukov, the accused 40-year-old Ukrainian leader of a prolific cybercriminal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2022
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT is using a new version of the DTrack backdoor in attacks aimed at organizations in Europe and Latin America. North Korea-linked APT Lazarus is using a new version of the DTrack backdoor to attack organizations in Europe and Latin America, Kaspersky researchers warn. DTrack is a modular backdoor used by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2022
Happy BirthDay Security Affairs! Eleven years together! I launched Security Affairs for passion in November 2011 and since then the blog was visited by tens of millions of readers. Thank you! Eleven years ago I decided to launch Security Affairs, a blog that is considered today one of the most valuable sources of the cybersecurity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2022
Researchers discovered a critical vulnerability impacting Spotify’s Backstage Software Catalog and Developer Platform. Researchers from the security firm Oxeye discovered a critical Remote Code Execution in Spotify’s Backstage (CVSS Score of 9.8). Backstage is Spotify’s open-source platform for building developer portals, it’s used by a several organizations, including American Airlines, Netflix, Splunk, Fidelity Investments and Epic Games. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2022
A suspected China-linked APT group breached a digital certificate authority in Asia as part of a campaign aimed at government agencies since March 2022. State-sponsored actors compromised a digital certificate authority in a country in Asia as part of a cyber espionage campaign aimed at multiple government agencies in the region, Symantec warns. Symantec attributes […]
