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Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2022
Lapsus$ gang leaks data allegedly stolen from Samsung Electronics

The Lapsus$ ransomware group claimed to have hacked Samsung Electronics and leaked alleged stolen confidential data. The Lapsus$ ransomware gang claims to have stolen a huge trove of sensitive data from Samsung Electronics and leaked 190GB of alleged Samsung data as proof of the hack. The gang announced the availability of the sample data on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2022
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. Anonymous announced to have hacked more than 2,500 websites linked to the Russian and Belarusian governments, state-owned media outlets spreading disinformation, Russian private organizations, banks, hospitals, airports. The attacks were conducted as part of the #OpRussia launched […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2022
Thousands of satellite users offline in Europe following a cyberattack, is it a conflict spillover?

Thousands of satellite internet users across Europe were disconnected from the internet by a cyber-event, experts suspect a cyber attack. Orange confirmed that “nearly 9,000 subscribers” of a satellite internet service provided by its subsidiary Nordnet in France were offline following a “cyber event” that took place on February 24 at Viasat, the US giant […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2022
Russian watchdog Roskomnadzor also blocked Facebook in Russia

State communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has ordered to block access to Facebook in Russia amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. State communications watchdog Roskomnadzor ordered to block access to Facebook over its decision to ban Russian media and state information resources. The block comes after Facebook recently deactivated or restricted access to accounts belonging to media […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2022
CISA adds 95 flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 95 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 95 vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have to address the identified vulnerabilities […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2022
These are the sources of DDoS attacks against Russia, local NCCC warns

Russian government released a list containing IP addresses and domains behind DDoS attacks that hit Russian infrastructure after the invasion. While the conflict on the battlefield continues, hacktivists continue to target Russian infrastructure exposed online. The Russian National Coordinating Center for Computer Incidents (NCCC) released a massive list containing 17,576 IP addresses and 166 domains that were involved […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2022
Russia-Ukraine, who are the soldiers that crowd cyberspace?

While Russia is invading Ukraine, multiple forces are joining in the conflict, especially in the cyber space, let’s analyze them The analysis of the current scenario in cyberspace is not easy due to the presence of multiple threat actors and the difficulty of attributing the attacks. Security group CyberKnow shared an interesting analysis about the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2022
Cisco fixed two critical flaws in Expressway, TelePresence VCS solutions

Cisco fixed critical flaws in its Expressway Series and TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) unified communications products. Cisco announced security patches for a couple of critical vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-20754 and CVE-2022-20755 (CVSS score of 9.0), in its Expressway Series and TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) unified communications products. “Multiple vulnerabilities in the API and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 03, 2022
Ukrainian WordPress sites under massive complex attacks

Researchers observed a spike in the attacks against Ukrainian WordPress sites since the beginning of the military invasion of the country. Cyber attacks are an important component of the military strategy against Ukraine, experts observed a spike in the attacks against Ukrainian WordPress sites since the beginning of the military invasion of the country. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2022
A cyberattack on Russian satellites is an act of war, the invasion of Ukraine no

Russia considers it legitimate to invade another country but warns it will consider cyberattacks on its satellites an act of war. Anonymous and the numerous hacker groups that declared war on Russia continue to target Russian government entities and private businesses. Yesterday, the hacking group Network Battalion 65 (‘NB65’) which is affiliated with Anonymous, announced to have […]