Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2022
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns healthcare organizations of Royal ransomware attacks. The human-operated Royal ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in September 2022, it has demanded ransoms up to millions of dollars. The Health and Human Services (HHS) is aware of attacks against the Healthcare and Public Healthcare (HPH) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2022
CommonSpirit Health confirmed that the October security breach resulted in the exposure of the personal data of 623,774 patients. In early October, Common Spirit, one of the largest hospital chains in the US, suffered a ransomware cyberattack that caused severe inconvenience to the facilities and to patients. The security breach led to delayed surgeries, hold-ups […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2022
On the third day of the Zero Day Initiativeâs Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition, participants earned more than $250,000. On the third day of the Zero Day Initiativeâs Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition, participants earned more than $250,000 for demonstrating zero-day attacks against NAS devices, printers, smart speakers, routers, and smartphones. In the two days, participants earned […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2022
Cisco disclosed a high-severity flaw in its IP phones that can be exploited to gain remote code execution and conduct DoS attacks. Cisco disclosed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20968, impacting its IP Phone 7800 and 8800 Series (except Cisco Wireless IP Phone 8821). An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker can trigger the flaw to cause a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2022
Claroty researchers devised a technique for bypassing the web application firewalls (WAF) of several vendors. Researchers at industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty devised an attack technique for bypassing the web application firewalls (WAF) of several industry-leading vendors. The technique was discovered while conducting unrelated research on Cambium Networksâ wireless device management platform. The researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2022
Zombinder is a third-party service on darknet used to embed malicious payloads in legitimate Android applications. While investigating a new malware campaign targeting Android and Windows systems, researchers at Threat Fabric discovered a darknet service, dubbed Zombinder, used to embed malicious payloads in legitimate Android apps. The campaign involved the Ermac Android banking Trojan along […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2022
Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 Day Two – Participants demonstrated exploits for smart speaker, smartphone, printer, router, and NAS. On the first day of the Zero Day Initiativeâs Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 hacking competition participants earned $400,000 for 26 unique zero-day exploits. On the second day of the competition, participants earned more $281,000 for smart speaker, smartphone, printer, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2022
The Android app Web Explorer â Fast Internet left an open instance, exposing a trove of sensitive data that malicious actors could use to check specific usersâ browsing history. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/android-app-leaked-user-browsing-history/ A browsing app for Android devices, Web Explorer â Fast Internet, left open its Firebase instance, exposing app and user data, the Cybernews research […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2022
Google warns that the North Korea-linked APT37 group is exploiting Internet Explorer zero-day flaw to spread malware. North Korea-linked APT37 group (aka ScarCruft, Reaper, and Group123) actively exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-41128, in attacks aimed at South Korean users. Google Threat Analysis Group researchers discovered the zero-day vulnerability in late October 2022, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2022
Researchers discovered a new Go-based botnet called Zerobot that exploits two dozen security vulnerabilities IoT devices. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered a new Go-based botnet called Zerobot that spreads by exploiting two dozen security vulnerabilities in the internet of things (IoT) devices and other applications. “This botnet, known as Zerobot, contains several modules, including self-replication, attacks for different protocols, […]
