Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2022
T-Mobile confirms Lapsus$ had access its systems

Telecommunication giant T-Mobile confirmed the LAPSUS$ extortion group gained access to its networks in March. Telecom company T-Mobile on Friday revealed that LAPSUS$ extortion gang gained access to its networks. The popular investigator and journalist Brian Krebs first surmised that the LAPSUS$ gang has breached T-Mobile after he reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2022
Phishing attacks using the topic “Azovstal” targets entities in Ukraine

Ukraine CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks on state organizations of Ukraine using the topic “Azovstal” and Cobalt Strike Beacon. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warns of phishing attacks aimed at organizations in the country using the topic “Azovstal”. The phishing message use the subject “Azovstal” and a weaponized office document. Upon opening […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2022
Conti ransomware claims responsibility for the attack on Costa Rica

Conti ransomware gang claimed responsibility for a ransomware attack that hit the government infrastructure of Costa Rica. Last week a ransomware attack has crippled the government infrastructure of Costa Rica causing chaos. The Conti ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack, while the Costa Rican government refused to pay a ransom. “The Costa Rican state […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2022
Cyber Insurance and the Changing Global Risk Environment

When security fails, cyber insurance can become crucial for ensuring continuity. Cyber has changed everything around us – even the way we tackle geopolitical crisis and conflicts. WhenEinstein was asked what a war will look like in the future, he couldn’t have predicted the importance ofdigital technology for modern societies. According to a report by […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2022
A stored XSS flaw in RainLoop allows stealing users’ emails

Experts disclose an unpatched vulnerability in the RainLoop webmail client, tracked as CVE-2022-29360, that can be exploited to steal users’ emails. RainLoop is an open-source web-based email client used by thousands of organizations, which is affected by a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-29360, that can be exploited to steal users’ emails. The vulnerability is a stored […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2022
Pwn2Own Miami hacking contest awarded $400,000 for 26 unique ICS exploits

Which hat hackers that participated in the Pwn2Own Miami 2022 hacking contest earned a total of $400,000 for their ICS exploits. The Pwn2Own Miami 2022 is a hacking contest organized by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) that focuses on demonstrating exploits for ICS systems belonging to the following categories: the OPC UA Server, Control […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2022
Critical bug in decoder used by popular chipsets exposes 2/3 of Android devices to hack

A critical RCE flaw in Android devices running on Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets could allow access to users’ media files. Security researchers at Check Point Research have discovered a critical remote code execution that affects the implementation of the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) in Android devices running on Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets. The ALAC […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2022
Cybercriminals Deliver IRS Tax Scams & Phishing Campaigns By Mimicking Government Vendors

Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. Cybercriminals are leveraging advanced tactics in their phishing-kits granting them a high delivery success rate of spoofed e-mails which contain malicious attachments right before the end of the 2021 IRS income tax return deadline in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2022
Static SSH host key in Cisco Umbrella allows stealing admin credentials

Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA) that could allow stealing admin credentials. Cisco addressed a high severity vulnerability in the Cisco Umbrella Virtual Appliance (VA), tracked as CVE-2022-20773, that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to steal admin credentials remotely. Umbrella is Cisco’s cloud-based Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2022
CVE-2022-20685 flaw in the Modbus preprocessor of the Snort makes it unusable

CVE-2022-20685 flaw in the Modbus preprocessor of the Snort detection engine could trigger a DoS condition and make it ineffective against malicious traffic. Snort is a free open source network intrusion detection system (IDS) and intrusion prevention system (IPS)  which is currently developed by Cisco. The software performs real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, protocol analysis, content searching and […]