Security News

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2023
Marina Bay Sands Luxury Hotel in Singapore Suffers a Data Breach

The iconic integrated resort Marina Bay Sands in Singapore has disclosed a data breach that impacted 665,000 customers. The Marina Bay Sands (MBS) luxury resort in Singapore has suffered a data breach that impacted 665,000 customers. Marina Bay Sands discovered the security breach on 20 October 2023, an unauthorized third party gained access to some […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2023
Veeam fixed multiple flaws in Veeam ONE, including critical issues

Veeam addressed multiple vulnerabilities in its Veeam ONE IT infrastructure monitoring and analytics platform, including two critical issues. Veeam addressed four vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-38547, CVE-2023-38548, CVE-2023-38549, CVE-2023-41723) in the Veeam ONE IT infrastructure monitoring and analytics platform. The vulnerability CVE-2023-38547 (CVSS score 9.9) can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to gain information about the SQL […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2023
Pro-Palestinian hackers group ‘Soldiers of Solomon’ disrupted the production cycle of the biggest flour production plant in Israel

Pro-Palestinian hackers group ‘Soldiers of Solomon’ claims to have hacked one of the largest Israeli flour plants causing severe damage to the operations. The Pro-Palestinian hackers group ‘Soldiers of Solomon’ announced that it had breached the infrastructure of the production plant of Flour Mills Ltd, a multinational company engaged in the processing and marketing of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2023
Iranian Agonizing Serpens APT is targeting Israeli entities with destructive cyber attacks

Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group has been targeting Israeli organizations with destructive cyber attacks since January. Iran-linked Agonizing Serpens group (aka Agrius, BlackShadow, Pink Sandstorm, DEV-0022) has been targeting Israeli organizations in higher education and tech sectors with destructive cyber attacks since January 2023. Palo Alto Networks’ s Unit 42 researchers reported that threat actors first attempt to steal sensitive […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2023
Critical Confluence flaw exploited in ransomware attacks

Experts warn threat actors that started exploiting a recent critical flaw CVE-2023-22518 in Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server. Over the weekend threat actors started exploiting a recently disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2023-22518) in all versions of Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server. Atlassian last week warned of the CVE-2023-22518 (CVSS score 9.1), the issue is an […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2023
QNAP fixed two critical vulnerabilities in QTS OS and apps

Taiwanese vendor QNAP warns of two critical command injection flaws in the QTS operating system and applications on its NAS devices. Taiwanese vendor QNAP Systems addressed two critical command injection vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-23368 and CVE-2023-23369, that impact the QTS operating system and applications on its network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The vulnerability CVE-2023-23368 (CVSS score […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2023
Attackers use Google Calendar RAT to abuse Calendar service as C2 infrastructure

Google warns of multiple threat actors that are leveraging its Calendar service as a command-and-control (C2) infrastructure. Google warns of multiple threat actors sharing a public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit, named Google Calendar RAT, that relies on Calendar service to host command-and-control (C2) infrastructure. Google Calendar RAT is a PoC of Command&Control (C2) over Google Calendar Events, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2023
Socks5Systemz proxy service delivered via PrivateLoader and Amadey

Threat actors infected more than 10,000 devices worldwide with the ‘PrivateLoader’ and ‘Amadey’ loaders to recruit them into the proxy botnet ‘Socks5Systemz.’ Bitsight researchers uncovered a proxy botnet delivered, tracked as Socks5Systemz, which was delivered by PrivateLoader and Amadey loaders. The name Socks5Systemz comes from the name of the unique login panel consistently present in […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2023
US govt sanctioned a Russian woman for laundering virtual currency on behalf of threat actors

The Treasury Department sanctioned a Russian woman accused of laundering virtual currency on behalf of cybercriminals. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday sanctioned Ekaterina Zhdanova, a Russian national, for her role in laundering and managing virtual currency on behalf of Russian elites, ransomware operators, and other threat actors. “Through […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 444 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Kinsing threat actors probed the Looney Tunables flaws in recent attacks ZDI discloses four zero-day flaws […]