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Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2022
Critical Magento zero-day flaw CVE-2022-24086 actively exploited

Adobe addressed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-24086) impacting Magento Open Source products that is being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe rolled out security updates to address a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-24086, affecting its Commerce and Magento Open Source products that is being actively exploited in the wild. “Adobe is aware that CVE-2022-24086 has […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2022
Alleged ransomware attack disrupted operations at Slovenia’s Pop TV station

Last week, a cyberattack hit Pop TV, Slovenia’s most popular TV channel, disrupting the operations. Last week, a cyber-attack has disrupted the operations of Pop TV, the Slovenian most popular TV channel. The attack, which likely was a ransomware attack, impacted the computer network of the TV channel and caused the cancellation of the evening […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2022
Organizations paid at least $602 million to ransomware gangs in 2021

Organizations have paid more than $600 million in cryptocurrency during 2021, nearly one-third to the Conti ransomware gang. Last week, cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., the U.S. and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. According to a report published by the blockchain analysis firm […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2022
San Francisco 49ers NFL team discloses BlackByte ransomware attack

A ransomware attack hit the corporate IT network of the San Francisco 49ers NFL team, The Record reported. The San Francisco 49ers NFL team has fallen victim to a ransomware attack, the news was reported by The Record. The team disclosed the attack after that the BlackByte ransomware added the team to the list of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2022
Analyzing Phishing attacks that use malicious PDFs

Cybersecurity researchers Zoziel Pinto Freire analyzed the use of weaponized PDFs in phishing attacks Every day everybody receives many phishing attacks with malicious docs or PDFs. I decided to take a look at one of these files. I did a static analysis and I went straight to the point to make this reading simple and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 13, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 353

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs 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. Organizations are addressing zero-day vulnerabilities more quickly, says Google CISA, FBI, NSA warn of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2022
Organizations are addressing zero-day vulnerabilities more quickly, says Google

Organizations are addressing zero-day vulnerabilities more quickly, compared to last year, Google’s Project Zero reported. According to Google’s Project Zero researchers, organizations are addressing zero-day vulnerabilities more quickly, compared to last year. Software vendors took an average of 52 days to address vulnerabilities reported from Project Zero while 3 years ago the average was of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2022
CISA, FBI, NSA warn of the increased globalized threat of ransomware

CISA, FBI and NSA published a joint advisory warning of ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations. Cybersecurity agencies from the U.K., the U.S. and Australia have published a joint advisory warning of an increased globalised threat of ransomware worldwide in 2021. Almost any sector was hit by sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks, including the Defense Industrial […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2022
Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska discloses data breach

Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska has disclosed a data breach that has impacted roughly 200,000 customers. Croatian phone carrier A1 Hrvatska has disclosed a data breach that has impacted 10% of its customers, roughly 200,000 people. Threat actors had access to sensitive personal information of the customers, including names, personal identification numbers, physical addresses, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2022
FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

FritzFrog P2P botnet is back and is targeting servers belonging to entities in the healthcare, education, and government sectors. FritzFrog is a sophisticated botnet that was involved in attacks against SSH servers worldwide since January 2020. The bot is written in Golang and implements wormable capabilities, experts reported attacks against entities in the government, education, and finance sectors. […]