Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2022
Glupteba botnet is back after Google disrupted it in December 2021

The Glupteba botnet is back, researchers reported a surge in infection worldwide after Google disrupted its operation in 2021. In December 2021, Google announced it has taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba botnet, it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet. The blockchain-enabled botnet has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 398 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities Former Twitter employee sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for spying […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2022
Google announced end-to-end encryption for Gmail web

Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail web to its Workspace and education customers to protect emails sent using the web client. Google announced end-to-end encryption for Gmail (E2EE), with Gmail client-side encryption beta, users can send and receive encrypted emails within their domain and outside of their domain.  Google E2EE was already available for users of Google […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2022
Fire and rescue service in Victoria, Australia, confirms cyber attack

The fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria, Australia, has shut down its network and turned to operating manually after a cyberattack. The fire and rescue service in the state of Victoria (FRV), Australia, has shut down its network after a cyber attack launched by “an external third party.”  Fire Rescue Victoria acting […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2022
Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities

Samba released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited to take control of impacted systems. Samba released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967, and CVE-2022-45141, that can be exploited to take control of impacted systems. On December 15, 2022, Samba announced the 4.17.4, 4.16.8 and 4.15.13 security releases to address […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2022
Former Twitter employee sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia

An ex Twitter employee has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for spying on individuals on behalf of Saudi Arabia. On august 2022, the former Twitter employee, Ahmad Abouammo (44), was found guilty of gathering private information of certain Twitter users and passing them to Saudi Arabia. Now Abouammo was has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2022
Social Blade discloses security breach

Social media analytics service Social Blade disclosed a security breach after a database containing allegedly stolen data from the company was offered for sale. Social Blade is an American social media analytics platform, the company disclosed the security breach after a database containing company data was offered for sale on a hacker forum this week. “On December 14th […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2022
Data of 5.7M Gemini users available for sale on hacking forums

Gemini crypto exchange warns users of an ongoing phishing campaign after a third-party vendor suffered a security breach. Gemini crypto exchange is warning of phishing campaigns targeting its users after a threat actor obtained their data by breaching a third-party vendor. The company pointed out that its systems were not impacted. “Some Gemini customers have […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2022
CISA adds Veeam Backup and Replication bugs to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US CISA added two vulnerabilities impacting Veeam Backup & Replication software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two vulnerabilities impacting Veeam Backup & Replication software, tracked as CVE-2022-26500 and CVE-2022-26501 (CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2022
Microsoft revised CVE-2022-37958 severity due to its broader scope

Microsoft revised the severity rate for the CVE-2022-37958 flaw which was addressed with Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2022. Microsoft revised the severity rate for the CVE-2022-37958 vulnerability, the IT giant now rated it as “critical” because it discovered that threat actors can exploit the bug to achieve remote code execution. The CVE-2022-37958 was […]