Security News

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2022
Microsoft is blocking Tutanota email addresses from registering a MS Teams account

Microsoft is actively blocking Tutanota email addresses from registering a Microsoft Teams account. Tutanota is an end-to-end encrypted email app and a freemium secure email service, as of March 2017, Tutanota’s owners claimed to have over 2 million users. The news is that Microsoft is actively blocking Tutanota email addresses from registering a Microsoft Teams […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2022
Serious cyberattack hits German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK)

A massive cyberattack hit the website of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) this week. A massive attack hit the website of the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) forcing the organization to shut down its IT systems as a precautionary measure for security reasons. “Due to a possible cyber attack, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2022
Slack resets passwords for about 0.5% of its users due to the exposure of salted password hashes

Slack is resetting passwords for approximately 0.5% of its users after a bug exposed salted password hashes when users created or revoked a shared invitation link for their workspace Slack announced that it is resetting passwords for about 0.5% of its users after a bug exposed salted password hashes when creating or revoking shared invitation […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2022
Twitter confirms zero-day used to access data of 5.4 million accounts

Twitter confirmed that the recent data breach that exposed data of 5.4 million accounts was caused by the exploitation of a zero-day flaw. At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 million Twitter accounts that were obtained by exploiting a now-fixed vulnerability in the popular social media platform. The threat actor offered […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2022
The popularity of Dark Utilities ‘C2-as-a-Service’ rapidly increases

Dark Utilities “C2-as-a-Service” is attracting a growing number of customers searching for a command-and-control for their campaigns. The popularity of the Dark Utilities “C2-as-a-Service” is rapidly increasing, over 3,000 users are already using it as command-and-control for their campaigns. Dark Utilities was launched in early 2022, the platform that provides full-featured C2 capabilities to its users. Dark […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2022
DHS warns of critical flaws in Emergency Alert System encoder/decoder devices

The U.S. DHS warns of critical security vulnerabilities in Emergency Alert System (EAS) encoder/decoder devices. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned of critical security vulnerabilities in Emergency Alert System (EAS) encoder/decoder devices. Threat actors could exploit the flaws to send fake emergency alerts via TV, radio networks, and cable networks. The Emergency Alert System […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2022
CISA adds Zimbra email bug to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a recently disclosed flaw in the Zimbra email suite to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a recently disclosed flaw in the Zimbra email suite, tracked as CVE-2022-27924, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. In middle June, researchers from Sonarsource discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2022
Mysterious threat actor TAC-040 used previously undetected Ljl Backdoor

A threat actor, tracked as TAC-040, exploited Atlassian Confluence flaw CVE-2022-26134 to deploy previously undetected Ljl Backdoor. Cybersecurity firm Deepwatch reported that a threat actor, tracked as TAC-040, has likely exploited the CVE-2022-26134 flaw in Atlassian Confluence servers to deploy a previously undetected backdoor dubbed Ljl Backdoor. The attackers exploited the flaw in an attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2022
New Linux botnet RapperBot brute-forces SSH servers

RapperBot is a new botnet employed in attacks since mid-June 2022 that targets Linux SSH servers with brute-force attacks. Researchers from FortiGuard Labs have discovered a new IoT botnet tracked as RapperBot which is active since mid-June 2022. The bot borrows a large portion of its code from the original Mirai botnet, but unlike other […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2022
New Woody RAT used in attacks aimed at Russian entities

An unknown threat actor is targeting Russian organizations with a new remote access trojan called Woody RAT. Malwarebytes researchers observed an unknown threat actor targeting Russian organizations with a new remote access trojan called Woody RAT. The attackers were delivering the malware using archive files and Microsoft Office documents exploiting the Follina Windows flaw (CVE-2022-30190). The assumption […]