Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2021
A Canadian man, who helped North Korean threat actors to launder stolen funds, plead guilty to laundering tens of millions of dollars stolen in bank fraud schemes. A Canadian man who conspired to launder tens of millions of dollars stolen bank fraud schemes has been sentenced to 140 months in prison. The man is Ghaleb […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2021
The massive DDoS attack that has been targeting the internet giant Yandex was powered b a completely new botnet tracked as MÄris. The Russian Internet giant Yandex has been targeting by the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet, the Russian Internet designed to be independent of the world wide web and ensure the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2021
CyberNews researchers identified more than 2 million web servers worldwide still running on outdated and vulnerable versions of Microsoft Internet Information Services software. These legacy versions are no longer supported by Microsoft, which makes millions of web servers easy targets for threat actors and cybercriminals. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/millions-of-microsoft-web-servers-powered-by-vulnerable-legacy-software/ Boasting a market share of 12.4%, Microsoft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2021
The financially motivated TeamTNT hacking group expanded its arsenal with new tools used to target thousands of victims worldwide. Researchers from AT&T Alien Labs uncovered a new campaign, tracked as Chimaera, conducted by the TeamTNT group, aimed at organizations worldwide. Evidence collected by the experts suggests that the campaign began on July 25, 2021, threat actors […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2021
A threat actor that goes online with the moniker ‘Sangkancil’ claims to have stolen the personal information of 7 million Israelis. A threat actor that goes online with the moniker ‘Sangkancil’ claims to have stolen the personal information of 7 million Israelis from the CITY4U website. The hacker is offering the data for sale, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2021
Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens control of its citizens and blocked access to six virtual private networks (VPNs), including NordVPN and ExpressVPN. Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor tightens the control over the Internet and blocked access to six virtual private networks (VPNs), Hola!VPN, ExpressVPN, KeepSolid VPN Unlimited, Nord VPN, Speedify VPN, and IPVanish VPN. Russian communications […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2021
Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors using weaponized Office docs. Microsoft warns of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-40444) in Internet Explorer that is actively exploited by threat actors to hijack vulnerable Windows systems. Microsoft did not share info about the attacks either the nature of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2021
Germany has protested to Russia over attempts to steal data from lawmakers and use them to spread disinformation ahead of the upcoming election. Germany has formally protested to Russia over a series of cyber attacks aimed at stealing data from lawmakers that could be used to arrange disinformation campaigns before the upcoming German election. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2021
The leak site of the popular REvil ransomware gang is online again, it is not clear if the group resumed operations or the FBI turned on its servers. Today the servers of the REvil ransomware gang were back online after around two months since their shutdown. The circumstance was immediately noted by many researchers, me […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2021
A researcher published the PoC exploit code for a Ghostscript zero-day vulnerability that could allow completely compromise a server. Security researcher Nguyen The Duc published on GitHub the proof-of-concept exploit code for a Ghostscript zero-day vulnerability. The vulnerability is a remote code execution (RCE) issue that could allow an attacker to completely compromise a server. Ghostscript […]
