Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2024
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. A cyberattack on gambling giant IGT disrupted portions of its IT systems China-linked APT Gelsemium uses a new Linux […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2024
China-linked APT Gelsemium has been observed using a new Linux backdoor dubbed WolfsBane in attacks targeting East and Southeast Asia. China-linked APT Gelsemium has deployed a previously unknown Linux backdoor, WolfsBane, in attacks targeting East and Southeast Asia, according to ESET. Victims include entities in Taiwan, the Philippines, and Singapore, as seen in VirusTotal samples from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2024
Mexico is investigating a ransomware attack targeting its legal affairs office, as confirmed by the president amidst growing cybersecurity concerns. Mexico’s president announced the government is investigating an alleged ransomware hack that targeted the administration’s legal affairs office. “Today they are going to send me a report on the supposed hacking.” President Claudia Sheinbaum said […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2024
Russian Phobos ransomware operator Evgenii Ptitsyn, accused of managing attacks, was extradited from South Korea to the US to face cybercrime charges. Russian Phobos ransomware operator Evgenii Ptitsyn, suspected of playing a key role in the ransomware operations, was extradited from South Korea to the US to face cybercrime charges. According to the DoJ, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2024
Chinese threat actors use custom post-exploitation toolkit ‘DeepData’ to exploit FortiClient VPN zero-day and steal credentials. Volexity researchers discovered a vulnerability in Fortinet’s Windows VPN client that China-linked threat actor BrazenBamboo abused in their DEEPDATA malware. BrazenBamboo is known to be the author of other malware families, including LIGHTSPY, DEEPDATA, and DEEPPOST. DEEPDATA is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2024
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. New Campaign Uses Remcos RAT to Exploit Victims Bengal cat lovers in Australia get psspsspss’d in Google-driven […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2024
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. A botnet exploits e GeoVision zero-day to compromise EoL devices Palo Alto Networks confirmed active exploitation of recently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 17, 2024
A botnet employed in DDoS or cryptomining attacks is exploiting a zero-day in end-of-life GeoVision devices to grow up. Researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation observed a botnet exploiting a zero-day in GeoVision EOL (end-of-Life) devices to compromise devices in the wild. The GeoVision zero-day, tracked as CVE-2024-11120 (CVSS 9.8), is a pre-auth command injection vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2024
Court filing revealed that NSO Group used WhatsApp exploits after the instant messaging firm sued the surveillance company. NSO Group developed malware that relied on WhatsApp exploits to infect target individuals even after the Meta-owned instant messaging company sued the surveillance firm. “As a threshold matter, NSO admits that it developed and sold the spyware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2024
The Glove Stealer malware exploits a new technique to bypass Chrome’s App-Bound encryption and steal browser cookies. Glove Stealer is a .NET-based information stealer that targets browser extensions and locally installed software to steal sensitive data. The malware could harvest a huge trove of data from infected systems, including cookies, autofill, cryptocurrency wallets, 2FA authenticators, […]
