Pierluigi Paganini
October 23, 2022
International cash and carry giant METRO suffered this week IT infrastructure outages following a cyberattack. International cash and carry giant METRO was hit by a cyberattack that caused IT infrastructure outages. Metro employs more than 95,000 people in 681 stores worldwide, most of them in Germany, its sales reached 24.8 billion euros in 2020. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2022
US government agencies warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting the U.S. Healthcare and Public Health sector with ransomware. CISA, the FBI, and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned that the Daixin Team cybercrime group is actively targeting U.S. businesses, mainly in the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) Sector, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2022
Threat actors are exploiting a now-patched vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22954, in VMware Workspace ONE Access in attacks in the wild. Threat actors are actively exploiting a now-patched vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22954, in VMware Workspace ONE Access to deliver cryptocurrency miners and ransomware. The issue causes server-side template injection due to because of the lack of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2022
Wordfence researchers warn of exploitation attempts targeting the recently disclosed flaw in Apache Commons Text dubbed Text4Shell. Experts at WordPress security firm Wordfence reported exploitation attempts targeting the recently disclosed flaw in Apache Commons Text dubbed Text4Shell. GitHub’s threat analyst Alvaro Munoz this week disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42889 (CVSS score 9.8), in the open-source Apache Commons […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2022
CISA added a Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3493, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week added a Linux kernel vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3493, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have to address the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2022
Google launched the Graph for the Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC) project, to secure the software supply chain. Google this week launched a new project named Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition (GUAC) which aims at securing the software supply chain. The IT giant is seeking contributors to the new project. “GUAC, or Graph for Understanding Artifact Composition, is in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2022
A new variant of the popular Ursnif malware is used as a backdoor to deliver next-stage payloads and steal sensitive data. Mandiant researchers warn of a significant shift from Ursnif‘s original purpose, the malware initially used in banking frauds is now used to deliver next-stage payloads and steal sensitive data. The new variant, first observed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2022
Healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. The US-based hospital healthcare system Advocate Aurora Health (AAH) disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal data of 3,000,000 patients. The company is notifying the impacted individuals. The healthcare system operates 26 hospitals in Wisconsin and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2022
Cybersecurity researchers warn of a new PowerShell backdoor that disguises itself as part of the Windows update process to avoid detection. Cybersecurity researchers from SafeBreach a warning of a new PowerShell backdoor masqueraded as a Windows update process to avoid detection. The backdoor spreads via weaponized Word documents (“Apply Form.docm.”) posing as a LinkedIn-based job […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2022
Microsoft disclosed a data leak, sensitive data of some of its customers were exposed by a misconfigured Microsoft server accessible online. Microsoft announced that sensitive data belonging to some of its customers were exposed on the Internet due to a misconfigured Microsoft server. The data leak was discovered by the security threat intelligence firm SOCRadar […]
