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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. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2022
CISA adds 15 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The U.S. CISA has added to the catalog of vulnerabilities another 15 security vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added fifteen more flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog‘ is a list of known vulnerabilities that threat actors have abused in attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2022
Apple addressed a third zero-day in 2022, which is actively exploited

Apple addressed a new WebKit zero-day affecting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari that may have been actively exploited in the wild. Apple has addressed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22620, in the WebKit affecting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari that may have been actively exploited in the wild. This is the third zero-day vulnerability fixed by the IT giant […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2022
Spanish police dismantled SIM swapping gang who stole money from victims’ bank accounts

Spanish National Police arrested eight alleged members of a crime ring specialized in SIM swapping attacks. Spanish National Police has arrested eight alleged members of a crime organization who were able to steal money from the bank accounts of the victims through SIM swapping attacks. Crooks conduct SIM swapping attacks to take control of victims’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2022
Threat actors compromised +500 Magento-based e-stores with e-skimmers

Experts uncovered a mass Magecart campaign that compromised over 500 e-store running the Magento 1 eCommerce platform. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Sansec uncovered a massive Magecart campaign that already compromised more than 500 online stores running the Magento 1 eCommerce platform. Threat actors behind this campaign deployed a digital skimmer that was being loaded from the naturalfreshmall(.)com domain. […]