Security News

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2022
Experts warn of a new eCh0raix ransomware campaign targeting QNAP NAS

Experts warn of a new ech0raix ransomware campaign targeting QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. Bleeping Computer and MalwareHunterTeam researchers, citing user reports and sample submissions on the ID Ransomware platform, warn of a new wave of ech0raix ransomware attacks targeting QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. The ransomware, tracked by Intezer as “QNAPCrypt” and “eCh0raix” by Anomali, is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2022
US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced to have shut down the infrastructure associated with the Russian botnet RSOCKS. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced to have shut down the infrastructure associated with the Russian botnet RSOCKS as part of an international police operation that involved law enforcement partners from Germany, the Netherlands, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2022
MaliBot Android Banking Trojan targets Spain and Italy

Malibot is a new Android malware targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. F5 Labs researchers spotted a new strain of Android malware, named Malibot, that is targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. The experts documented attacks against multiple banks, including UniCredit, Santander, CaixaBank, and CartaBCC. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2022
Chinese DriftingCloud APT exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day before it was fixed

China-linked threat actors exploited the zero-day flaw CVE-2022-1040 in Sophos Firewall weeks before it was fixed by the security vendor. Volexity researchers discovered that the zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, in Sophos Firewall was exploited by Chinese threat actors to compromise a company and cloud-hosted web servers it was operating. The vulnerability was exploited by […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2022
Experts link Hermit spyware to Italian surveillance firm RCS Lab and a front company

Experts uncovered an enterprise-grade surveillance malware dubbed Hermit used to target individuals in Kazakhstan, Syria, and Italy since 2019. Lookout Threat Lab researchers uncovered enterprise-grade Android surveillance spyware, named Hermit, used by the government of Kazakhstan to track individuals within the country. The latest samples of this spyware were detected by the researchers in April 2022, four […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2022
A Microsoft 365 feature can ransom files on SharePoint and OneDriveCould

Experts discovered a feature in Microsoft 365 suite that could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive and target cloud infrastructure. Researchers from Proofpoint reported that a feature in the in Microsoft 365 suite could be abused to encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive. “Proofpoint has discovered a potentially dangerous piece […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2022
BlackCat Ransomware affiliates target unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers

The BlackCat ransomware gang is targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise target networks, Microsoft warns. Microsoft researchers have observed BlackCat ransomware gang targeting unpatched Exchange servers to compromise organizations worldwide. The compromise of Exchange servers allows threat actors to access the target networks, perform internal reconnaissance and lateral movement activities, and steal sensitive documents before encrypting them. “For example, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2022
ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang starts publishing victims’ data on the clear web

ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group began publishing victims’ data on the clear web to increase the pressure on them and force them to pay the ransom. ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has adopted a new strategy to force victims into paying the ransom, the gang began publishing victims’ data on the clear web to increase the pressure. Publishing data online will […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2022
Researchers disclosed a remote code execution flaw in Fastjson Library

Researchers disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-25845, in the popular Fastjson library. Cybersecurity researchers from JFrog disclosed details of a now patched high-severity security vulnerability in the popular Fastjson library that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution. Fastjson is a Java library that can be used to convert Java Objects into their JSON representation. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2022
Cisco fixed a critical Bypass Authentication flaw in Cisco ESA and Secure Email and Web Manager

Cisco addressed a critical bypass authentication flaw in Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager. Cisco addressed a critical bypass authentication vulnerability affecting Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-20798 (CVSS score 9.8), can be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass […]