Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2022
Social media analytics service Social Blade disclosed a security breach after a database containing allegedly stolen data from the company was offered for sale. Social Blade is an American social media analytics platform, the company disclosed the security breach after a database containing company data was offered for sale on a hacker forum this week. âOn December 14th […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2022
US CISA added two vulnerabilities impacting Veeam Backup & Replication software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two vulnerabilities impacting Veeam Backup & Replication software, tracked as CVE-2022-26500 and CVE-2022-26501 (CVSS 3.1 Base Score 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2022
Microsoft announced that a botnet dubbed MCCrash is launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. Microsoft spotted a cross-platform botnet, tracked as MCCrash, which has been designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. The IT giant tracks this cluster of activity as DEV-1028. The experts report that the botnet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2022
Microsoft revised the severity rate for the CVE-2022-37958 flaw which was addressed with Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2022. Microsoft revised the severity rate for the CVE-2022-37958 vulnerability, the IT giant now rated it as “critical” because it discovered that threat actors can exploit the bug to achieve remote code execution. The CVE-2022-37958 was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2022
A Chinese-speaking APT group, tracked as MirrorFace, is behind a spear-phishing campaign targeting Japanese political entities. ESET researchers recently discovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting Japanese political entities and attributed it to the Chinese-speaking APT group tracked as MirrorFace. The experts tracked the campaign as Operation LiberalFace, it aimed at Japanese political entities, especially the members of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2022
The portal of the FBI’s InfraGard US Critical Infrastructure Intelligence was hacked, and data is available for sale on a cybercrime forum. InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and members of the private sector for the protection of U.S. Critical Infrastructure. Through seamless collaboration, InfraGard connects owners and operators within […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) seized forty-eight domains that offered DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms to crooks. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) this week announced the seizure of 48 domains associated with the DDoS-for-Hire Service platforms (aka Booter services) used by threat actors. Below is the list of domains seized by the FBI: The authorities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2022
Researchers discovered a new Go-based botnet, dubbed GoTrim, attempting to brute force WordPress websites. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a new Go-based botnet, dubbed GoTrim, that has been spotted scanning and brute-forcing WordPress and OpenCart websites. The botnet was named GoTrim because it was written in Go and uses â:::trim:::â to split data sent and received […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2022
Microsoft released December 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates that fix 52 vulnerabilities across its products. Microsoft December 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 52 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Components; Azure; Office and Office Components; SysInternals; Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based); SharePoint Server; and the .NET framework. 12 of these vulnerabilities were submitted through the ZDI program. Six vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2022
Apple rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari to fix a new actively exploited zero-day (CVE-2022-42856). Apple released security updates to address a new zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42856, that is actively exploited in attacks against iPhones. The flaw is the tenth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability since the start of the […]
