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Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2021
Netgear fixes code execution flaw in many SOHO devices

Netgear addressed a code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-34991, in its small office/home office (SOHO) devices. Netgear addressed a pre-authentication buffer overflow issue in its small office/home office (SOHO) devices that can be exploited by an attacker on the local area network (LAN) to execute code remotely with root privileges. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-34991 […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2021
CISA releases incident response plans for federal agencies

CISA released the Federal Government Cybersecurity Incident Response Playbooks for the federal civilian executive branch agencies. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released new cybersecurity response plans for federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agencies (” Federal Government Cybersecurity Incident and Vulnerability Response Playbooks“). The documents aim at developing a standard set of operational procedures […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2021
The rise of millionaire zero-day exploit markets

Researchers detailed the multi-millionaire market of zero-day exploits, a parallel economy that is fueling the threat landscape. Zero-day exploits are essential weapons in the arsenal of nation-state actors and cybercrime groups. The increased demand for exploits is fueling a millionaire market where these malicious codes are incredibly expensive. Researchers from Digital Shadows published an interesting […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2021
Iran-linked APT groups continue to evolve

The researchers at Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) are warning of increasingly sophisticated operations carried out by Iranian threat actors. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) shared the results of their analysis on the evolution of Iran-linked threat actors at the CyberWarCon 2021. Over the past 12 months, MSTIC experts observed increasingly sophisticated attacks orchestrated […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2021
Mandiant links Ghostwriter operations to Belarus

Security researchers at the Mandiant Threat Intelligence team believe that Ghostwriter APT group is linked to the government of Belarus. Mandiant Threat Intelligence researchers believe that the Ghostwriter disinformation campaign (aka UNC1151) was linked to the government of Belarus. In August 2020, security experts from FireEye uncovered a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting NATO by […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2021
GitHub addressed two major vulnerabilities in the NPM package manager

Maintainers of the npm package manager for the JavaScript programming language disclosed multiple flaws that were recently addressed. GitHub disclosed two major vulnerabilities in the npm that have been already addressed. The first vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package using an account without proper authorization. The flaw was reported by […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2021
Adult cam site StripChat exposes the data of millions of users and cam models

The popular adult cam site StripChat has suffered a security breach, the personal data of millions of users and adult models leaked online. The popular adult cam site StripChat has suffered a security breach that resulted in the leak of the personal data of millions of users and adult models. The security breach was discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2021
SharkBot, a new Android Trojan targets banks in Europe

Security researchers from Cleafy discovered a new Android banking trojan, named SharkBot, that is targeting banks in Europe. At the end of October, researchers from cyber security firms Cleafy and ThreatFabric have discovered a new Android banking trojan named SharkBot. The name comes after one of the domains used for its command and control servers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2021
Operation Reacharound – Emotet malware is back

The Emotet botnet is still active, ten months after an international operation coordinated by Europol shut down its infrastructure. Early this year, law enforcement and judicial authorities worldwide conducted a joint operation, named Operation Ladybird, which disrupted the EMOTET botnet. At the time the investigators have taken control of its infrastructure in an international coordinated action.  […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2021
Cloudflare mitigated 2 Tbps DDoS attack, the largest attack it has seen to date

Cloudflare announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at almost 2 terabytes per second (Tbps). Cloudflare, Inc. is an American web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network and DDoS mitigation services. The company announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked just below 2 terabytes per second (Tbps), which […]