Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2023
Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten employed a new malware dubbed BellaCiao in attacks against victims in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and India. Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35, Phosphorus, Newscaster, and Ajax Security Team) made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2023
China-linked threat actor tracked as Alloy Taurus is using a Linux variant of the PingPull backdoor and a new tool dubbed Sword2033. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 recently observed the China-linked Alloy Taurus group (aka GALLIUM, Softcell) targeting Linux systems with a new variant of PingPull backdoor. While investigating the activity of the group, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2023
German government warns that technology to regulate power consumption in Huawei network appliances could be used for sabotage purposes. In March, the interior ministry announced it was conducting an audit on the network appliance from Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE. German lawmakers were briefed on the probe by the German Interior Ministry, the federal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2023
Apache Superset open-source data visualization platform is affected by an insecure default configuration that could lead to remote code execution. Apache Superset is an open-source data visualization and data exploration platform. The maintainers of the software have released security patches to address an insecure default configuration, tracked as CVE-2023-27524 (CVSS score: 8.9), that could lead to remote […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2023
Pro-Russia hacking group Zarya caused a cybersecurity incident at a Canadian gas pipeline, the critical infrastructure sector is on alert. A Canadian gas pipeline suffered a cyber security incident, Canada’s top cyber official and Pro-Russia hacking group Zarya claimed the attack could have caused an explosion. Pro-Russia hacktivist groups call to action for targeting organizations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2023
A flaw in the Service Location Protocol (SLP), tracked as CVE-2023-29552, can allow to carry out powerful DDoS attacks. A high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2023-29552, CVSS score: 8.6) impacting the Service Location Protocol (SLP) can be exploited by threat actors to conduct powerful volumetric DDoS attacks. The Service Location Protocol (SLP) is a legacy service discovery […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2023
VMware addressed zero-day flaws that can be chained to achieve arbitrary code execution on Workstation and Fusion software hypervisors. VMware released security updates to address two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-20869, CVE-2023-20870) that were chained by the STAR Labs team during the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 hacking contest against Workstation and Fusion software hypervisors. The STAR Labs (@starlabs_sg) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2023
Mirai botnet started exploiting the CVE-2023-1389 vulnerability (aka ZDI-CAN-19557/ZDI-23-451) in TP-Link Archer A21 in recent attacks. Last week, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) threat-hunting team observed the Mirai botnet attempting to exploit the CVE-2023-1389 vulnerability (aka ZDI-CAN-19557/ZDI-23-451, CVSS v3: 8.8) in TP-Link Archer AX21 Wi-Fi routers. The CVE-2023-1389 flaw is an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2023
Google announced that its Authenticator app for Android and iOS now supports Google Account synchronization. Google announced that its Google Authenticator app for both iOS and Android now supports Google Account synchronization that allows to safely backup users one-time codes to their Google Account. The company states that users over the years have faced the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2023
Peugeot, a French brand of automobiles owned by Stellantis, exposed its users in Peru, a South American country with a population of nearly 34 million. A brand, best known for its lion roaring for over a century, has leaked access to its user data in Peru. And while the country is not that big of […]
Security / December 25, 2025
Security / December 25, 2025
