Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2023
IT Army of Ukraine disrupted internet providers in territories occupied by Russia

IT Army of Ukraine hacktivists have temporarily disrupted internet services in some of the territories that have been occupied by Russia. Ukrainian hacktivists belonging to the IT Army of Ukraine group have temporarily disabled internet services in some of the territories that have been occupied by the Russian army. After the invasion of the Crimea and […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 443 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Bug hunters earned $1,038,250 for 58 unique 0-days at Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 Lockbit ransomware gang claims […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2023
Bug hunters earned $1,038,250 for 58 unique 0-days at Pwn2Own Toronto 2023

The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition is over, bug hunters earned $1,038,500 for 58 zero-day exploits. The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking competition is over, the organizers awarded $1,038,250 for 58 unique 0-days. The Team Viettel (@vcslab) won the Master of Pwn with $180K and 30 points. The vulnerabilities exploited by the experts have been disclosed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2023
Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have stolen data from Boeing

The Lockbit ransomware gang claims to have hacked the aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor Boeing and threatened to leak the stolen data. The Boeing Company, commonly known as Boeing, is one of the world’s largest aerospace manufacturers and defense contractors.  In 2022, Boeing recorded $66.61 billion in sales, the aerospace giant has 156,000 (2022). The Lockbit ransomware […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2023
France agency ANSSI warns of Russia-linked APT28 attacks on French entities

France National Agency for the Security of Information Systems warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group has breached several critical networks. The French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) warns that the Russia-linked APT28 group has been targeting multiple French organizations, including government entities, businesses, universities, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2023
How to Collect Market Intelligence with Residential Proxies?

How residential proxies using real IPs from diverse locations enable businesses to gather comprehensive and accurate data from the web Since the adoption of the first digital tools and connection to the internet, the competitive business environment has revolutionized and transformed the ways modern companies conduct business operations. With the help of Information Technologies (IT), […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2023
F5 urges to address a critical flaw in BIG-IP

F5 warns customers of a critical vulnerability impacting BIG-IP that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. F5 is warning customers about a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS 9.8), that impacts BIG-IP and could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability resides in the configuration utility component, it was reported by Michael […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2023
iLeakage attack exploits Safari to steal data from Apple devices

Boffins devised a new iLeakage side-channel speculative execution attack exploits Safari to steal sensitive data from Macs, iPhones, and iPads. A team of researchers from the University of Michigan, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Ruhr University Bochum has devised a transient side-channel speculative execution attack that exploits the Safari web browser to steal sensitive information […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2023
Cloudflare mitigated 89 hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed DDoS attacks exceeding 100 million rps

Cloudflare mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exploiting the flaw HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. Cloudflare DDoS threat report of 2023 states that the company has mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service attacks. 89 of the attacks mitigated by the company exceeded 100 million requests per second (rps), the largest attack peaked at […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2023
Seiko confirmed a data breach after BlackCat attack

Japanese watchmaker Seiko revealed that the attack that suffered earlier this year was carried out by the Black Cat ransomware gang. On August 10, 2023, the Japanese maker of watches Seiko disclosed a data breach following a cyber attack. “Seiko Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “the Company” or “we”) has confirmed that on July […]