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Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2021
Hacking a Tesla Model X with a DJI Mavic 2 drone equipped with a WIFI dongle

A security duo has demonstrated how to hack a Tesla Model X’s and open the doors using a DJI Mavic 2 drone equipped with a WIFI dongle. The scenario is disconcerting, hackers could use a drone to fly on your Tesla Model X and open the doors, a couple of researchers demonstrated. The researchers Kunnamon, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2021
Cloud hosting provider Swiss Cloud suffered a ransomware attack

Swiss cloud hosting provider Swiss Cloud has suffered a ransomware attack that seriously impacted its server infrastructure. On April 27 the Swiss cloud hosting provider was hit by a ransomware attack that brought down the company’s server infrastructure. The company is currently working to restore operations from its backups with the help of experts from […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2021
AgeLocker ransomware operation targets QNAP NAS devices

Taiwanese vendor QNAP is warning its customers of AgeLocker ransomware attacks on their NAS devices. Crooks behind the AgeLocker ransomware operation are targeting QNAP NAS devices, the Taiwanese vendor warns. The vendor doesn’t provide technical details of the attacks, it is not clear if the ransomware gang exploited know vulnerabilities. “The QNAP security team has […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2021
Flaws in the BIND software expose DNS servers to attacks

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released updates for the BIND DNS software to patch several denial-of-service (DoS) and potential RCE flaws. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates for the BIND DNS software to address several vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to trigger denial-of-service (DoS) conditions and potentially to remotely execute […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2021
Babuk crew announced it will stop ransomware attacks

Babuk ransomware operators shut down their affiliate program and announced to stop using ransomware, the group plans to move on data theft. Recently the Babuk ransomware operators made the headlines for the ransomware attack against the DC Police Department. Experts believe that the decision of the group to leave the ransomware practice could be the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2021
China-linked APT uses a new backdoor in attacks at Russian defense contractor

A China-linked cyberespionage group targets a Russian defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the Russian Navy. Cybereason researchers reported that a China-linked APT group targets a Russian defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the Russian Navy. The state-sponsored hackers sent spear-phishing messages to a general director working at the Rubin Design […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2021
UNC2447 cybercrime gang exploited SonicWall Zero-Day before it was fixed

UNC2447 cybercrime gang exploited a zero-day in the Secure Mobile Access (SMA), addressed by SonicWall earlier this year, before the vendor released a fix. Researchers from FireEye’s Mandiant revealed that a sophisticated cybercrime gang tracked as UNC2447 has exploited a zero-day issue (CVE-2021-20016) in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) devices, fixed earlier this year, before […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2021
Saving World Health Day: UNICC and Group-IB take down scam campaign impersonating the World Health Organization

UNICC and Group-IB detected and took down a massive multistage scam campaign circulating online on April 7, World Health Day. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company that specializes in investigating hi-tech cybercrimes, and the United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC), detected and took down a massive multistage scam campaign circulating online on April 7, World Health Day. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2021
Microsoft warns of BadAlloc flaws in OT, IoT devices

Microsoft researchers are warning of major security vulnerabilities affecting OT and IoT devices and high-risks for businesses using them. Researchers from Microsoft’s Section 52 team recently uncovered several critical memory allocation flaws, collectively tracked as BadAlloc, affecting IoT and OT devices. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by attackers to bypass security controls to execute malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2021
Command injection flaw in PHP Composer allowed supply-chain attacks

A vulnerability in the PHP Composer could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands and backdoor every PHP package. The maintainers of the PHP Composer package have addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-29472, that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands and establish a backdoor in every PHP package. Composer is the major […]