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Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2022
Microsoft March 2022 Patch Tuesday updates fix 89 vulnerabilities

Microsoft March 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates address 89 vulnerabilities in multiple products, including 3 zero-days. Microsoft March 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates address 89 vulnerabilities in multiple products, including Microsoft Windows components, Azure and Azure DevOps, Azure Sphere, Internet Explorer and Edge (EdgeHTML), Exchange Server, Office and Office Services and Web Apps, SharePoint Server, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2022
Google TAG: Russia, Belarus-linked APTs targeted Ukraine

Google TAG observed Russian, Belarusian, and Chinese threat actors targeting Ukraine and European government and military orgs. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which focuses on the analysis of nation-state threat actors, revealed to have blocked attacks against hundreds of Ukrainians conducted by Belarus and Russian state-sponsored hackers. The attacks have been attributed to the Russia-linked […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2022
Access:7 flaws impact +150 device models from over 100 manufacturers

Many IoT and medical devices are affected by seven serious flaws, collectively tracked as Access:7, in widely used Axeda platform. Researchers from medical device cybersecurity company CyberMDX have discovered seven serious flaws, collectively tracked as Access:7, in the widely used Axeda platform of IIoT solutions provider PTC. “Access:7 could enable hackers to remotely execute malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2022
Ukraine’s CERT-UA warns of phishing attacks against Ukrainian citizens

Ukraine’s CERT-UA warned citizens of new phishing attacks launched through compromised email accounts belonging to Indian entities. Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) is warning of new phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian citizens through compromised email accounts belonging to three different Indian entities. The attacks were aimed at stealing sensitive information from compromised accounts. The malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2022
Coinbase blocked 25,000 crypto addresses linked to Russian individuals and entities

Coinbase announced that it’s blocking access to more than 25,000 blockchain addresses linked to Russian individuals and entities. The popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase announced today that it’s blocking access to more than 25,000 blockchain addresses linked to Russian people and entities. Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal explained that its company is complying with sanctions […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2022
Anonymous hacked Russian streaming services to broadcast war footage

Anonymous hacked into the most popular Russian streaming services to broadcast war footage from Ukraine. The popular hacker collective Anonymous continues to target Russian entities, a few hours ago the group hacked into the most popular Russian streaming services to broadcast war footage from Ukraine and demonstrate to Russians the atrocity of the invasion ordered […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2022
Mozilla addresses two actively exploited zero-day flaws in Firefox

Mozilla fixed two critical actively exploited zero-day bugs in Firefox with the release of 97.0.2, ESR 91.6.1, Firefox for Android 97.3.0, and Focus 97.3.0. Mozilla has released Firefox 97.0.2, Firefox ESR 91.6.1, Firefox for Android 97.3.0, and Focus 97.3.0 to address a couple of critical zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26485, actively exploited in […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 356

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Charities and NGOs providing support in Ukraine hit by malware Lapsus$ gang leaks data […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2022
Feb 27- Mar 05 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict

This post provides a timeline of the events related to the Russia invasion of Ukraine from the cyber security perspective. March 5 – Anonymous #OpRussia Thousands of sites hacked, data leaks and more Anonymous and its affiliates continue to target Russia and Belarus, it is also targeting the Russian disinformation machine. March 5 – Thousands […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2022
Charities and NGOs providing support in Ukraine hit by malware

Malware based attacks are targeting charities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) providing support in Ukraine Charities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that in these weeks are providing support in Ukraine are targeted by malware attacks aiming to disrupt their operations. The news was reported by Amazon that associates the attacks with state-sponsored hackers and confirmed that it […]