Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2022
China-linked Gallium APT employed a previously undocumented RAT, tracked as PingPull, in recent cyber espionage campaign targeting South Asia, Europe, and Africa. China-linked Gallium APT (aka Softcell) used a previously undocumented remote access Trojan dubbed PingPull in recent attacks aimed at organizations in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks defined the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2022
Experts observed the HelloXD ransomware deploying a backdoor to facilitate persistent remote access to infected hosts. The HelloXD ransomware first appeared in the threat landscape on November 30, 2021, it borrows the code from Babuk ransomware, which is available in Russian-speaking hacking forums since September 2021. Unlike other ransomware operations, this ransomware gang doesn’t use a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2022
Researchers at the University of Hamburg demonstrated that WiFi connection probe requests expose users to track. A group of academics at the University of Hamburg (Germany) demonstrated that it is possible to use WiFi connection probe requests to identify and track devices and thereby their users. Mobile devices transmit probe requests to receive information about […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2022
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. Ransomware gangs are exploiting CVE-2022-26134 RCE in Atlassian Confluence servers HID Mercury Access Controller flaws […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2022
Ransomware gangs are actively exploiting CVE-2022-26134 remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center. Multiple ransomware groups are actively exploiting the recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-26134, affecting Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center. Proof-of-concept exploits for the CVE-2022-26134 vulnerability have been released online, Bleeping Computer reported that starting from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2022
Experts found vulnerabilities in HID Mercury Access Controllers can be exploited by attackers to remotely unlock doors. Researchers from security firm Trellix discovered some critical vulnerabilities in HID Mercury Access Controllers that can be exploited by attackers to remotely unlock doors. The flaws impact products manufactured by LenelS2, a provider of advanced physical security solutions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2022
Iran-linked Lyceum APT group uses a new .NET-based DNS backdoor to target organizations in the energy and telecommunication sectors. The Iran-linked Lyceum APT group, aka Hexane or Spilrin, used a new .NET-based DNS backdoor in a campaign aimed at companies in the energy and telecommunication sectors, ZScaler researchers warn. The activity of the Lyceum APT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2022
PACMAN is a new attack technique demonstrated against Apple M1 processor chipsets that could be used to hack macOS systems. PACMAN is a novel hardware attack technique that can allow attackers to bypass Pointer Authentication (PAC) on the Apple M1 CPU. The pointer authentication codes (PACs) allow to detect and guard against unexpected changes to pointers in memory. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2022
The Vice Society group has claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack that hit the Italian city of Palermo forcing the IT admins to shut down its infrastructure. The Vice Society ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the recent cyber attack that hit the city of Palermo in the South of Italy. In response to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2022
Researchers uncovered a high stealth Linux malware, dubbed Symbiote, that could be used to backdoor infected systems. Joint research conducted by security firms Intezer and BlackBerry uncovered a new Linux threat dubbed Symbiote. The name comes from the concept of symbiote which is an organism that lives in symbiosis with another organism, exactly like this implant does with […]
