Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2021
Wordfence experts detected a massive wave of attacks in the last couple of days that targeted over 1.6 million WordPress sites. Wordfence researchers spotted a massive wave of attacks in the days that are targeting over 1.6 million WordPress sites from 16,000 IPs. “Today, on December 9, 2021, our Threat Intelligence team noticed a drastic uptick in attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2021
BlackCat is the first professional ransomware strain that was written in the Rust programming language, researchers reported. Malware researchers from Recorded Future and MalwareHunterTeam discovered ALPHV (aka BlackCat), the first professional ransomware strain that was written in the Rust programming language In the past, other two ransomware were written in Rust for research purposes, one of them […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2021
A botnet tracked as Dark Mirai spreads by exploiting a new vulnerability affecting TP-Link TL-WR840N EU V5 home routers. Dark Mirai botnet spreads by exploiting a new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-41653, affecting TP-Link TL-WR840N EU V5 home routers. “The PING function on the TP-Link TL-WR840N EU v5 router with firmware through TL-WR840N(EU)_V5_171211 is vulnerable to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2021
Mozilla released security updates for the Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail client to address multiple vulnerabilities. Mozilla released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail client. The company addressed 13 vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser with the release of Firefox 95, including six high-severity flaws. The most severe of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2021
Threat actors are injecting credit card swipers into random plugins of e-commerce WordPress sites, Sucuri researchers warn. Sucuri researchers are warning of threat actors injecting credit card swipers into random plugins of e-commerce WordPress sites. The holidays season is the period when online scammers and threat actors intensify their operations. Sucuri researchers have spotted a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2021
Researches from cybersecurity firm JFrog found 17 malicious packages on the NPM package repository hijacking Discord servers. JFrog researchers have discovered 17 malicious packages in the NPM (Node.js package manager) repository that were developed to hijack Discord servers. The libraries allow stealing Discord access tokens and environment variables from systems running giving the attackers full access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2021
Moobot is a Mirai-based botnet that is leveraging a critical command injection vulnerability in the webserver of some Hikvision products. The Mirai-based Moobot botnet is rapidly spreading by exploiting a critical command injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-36260, in the webserver of several Hikvision products. The Moobot was first documented by Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2021
CyberNews researchers discovered a Desktop Services Store (DS_STORE) file left on a publicly accessible web server that belongs to Microsoft Vancouver. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/microsoft-vancouver-leaking-website-credentials-via-overlooked-ds-store-file/ The metadata stored on the file led the researchers to several WordPress database dumps, which contained multiple administrator usernames and email addresses, as well as the hashed password for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2021
SonicWall strongly urges customers using SMA 100 series appliances to install security patches that address multiple security flaws, some of them rated as critical. Security vendor SonicWall urges customers using SMA 100 series appliances to apply security patches that address multiple security vulnerabilities, some of which have been rated as critical. “SonicWall has verified and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2021
A cyberattack hit CS Energy in Australia on Saturday, November 27, experts believe the attack was orchestrated by Chinese hackers. A ransomware cyberattack hit a major energy network operated by CS Energy, that attack could have had dramatic consequences leaving millions of homes without energy. The attack took place on Saturday, November 27, experts believe […]
