Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2022
Google expert detailed a 5-Year-Old flaw in Apple Safari exploited in the wild

Google Project Zero experts disclosed details of a 5-Year-Old Apple Safari flaw actively exploited in the wild. Researchers from the Google Project Zero team have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Apple Safari that was actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22620, was fixed for the first time in 2013, but in […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 370 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet MaliBot Android Banking Trojan […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2022
Cisco will not address critical RCE in end-of-life Small Business RV routers

Cisco announced that it will not release updates to fix the CVE-2022-20825 flaw in end-of-life Small Business RV routers. Cisco will not release updates to address the CVE-2022-20825 RCE flaw in end-of-life Small Business RV routers and encourage upgrading to newer models. The vulnerability, which received a CVSS severity rating of 9.8 out of 10.0, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2022
BRATA Android Malware evolves and targets the UK, Spain, and Italy

The developers behind the BRATA Android malware have implemented additional features to avoid detection. The operators behind the BRATA Android malware have implemented more features to make their attacks stealthy. The malware was first spotted in 2019 by security experts at Kaspersky, the name BRAT comes from ‘Brazilian RAT Android,’ because at the time it was used to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2022
Critical flaw in Ninja Forms WordPress Plugin actively exploited in the wild

A critical vulnerability in Ninja Forms plugin potentially impacted more than one million WordPress websites In middle June, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team noticed a back-ported security update in the popular WordPress plugin Ninja Forms, which has over one million active installations. The analysis of the updates revealed that they patched a code injection vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2022
US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced to have shut down the infrastructure associated with the Russian botnet RSOCKS. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced to have shut down the infrastructure associated with the Russian botnet RSOCKS as part of an international police operation that involved law enforcement partners from Germany, the Netherlands, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2022
MaliBot Android Banking Trojan targets Spain and Italy

Malibot is a new Android malware targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. F5 Labs researchers spotted a new strain of Android malware, named Malibot, that is targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. The experts documented attacks against multiple banks, including UniCredit, Santander, CaixaBank, and CartaBCC. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2022
Chinese DriftingCloud APT exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day before it was fixed

China-linked threat actors exploited the zero-day flaw CVE-2022-1040 in Sophos Firewall weeks before it was fixed by the security vendor. Volexity researchers discovered that the zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, in Sophos Firewall was exploited by Chinese threat actors to compromise a company and cloud-hosted web servers it was operating. The vulnerability was exploited by […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2022
BlackCat Ransomware affiliates target unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers

The BlackCat ransomware gang is targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise target networks, Microsoft warns. Microsoft researchers have observed BlackCat ransomware gang targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise organizations worldwide. The compromise of Exchange servers allows threat actors to access the target networks, perform internal reconnaissance and lateral movement activities, and steal sensitive documents before encrypting them. “For example, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2022
ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang starts publishing victims’ data on the clear web

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group began publishing victims’ data on the clear web to increase the pressure on them and force them to pay the ransom. ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has adopted a new strategy to force victims into paying the ransom, the gang began publishing victims’ data on the clear web to increase the pressure. Publishing data online will […]