Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2022
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. CISA compiled a list of free cybersecurity tools and services White House and UK […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2022
The Conti ransomware group takes over TrickBot malware operation and plans to replace it with BazarBackdoor malware. TrickBot operation has arrived at the end of the journey, according to AdvIntel some of its top members move under the Conti ransomware gang, which is planning to replace the popular banking Trojan with the stealthier BazarBackdoor. TrickBot is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2022
The U.S. CISA has created a list of free cybersecurity tools and services that can help organizations increase their resilience. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced this week that it has compiled a list of free cybersecurity tools and services that can help organizations to reduce cybersecurity risk and increase resilience. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2022
The White House has linked the recent DDoS attacks against Ukraine ‘s banks and defense agencies to Russia’s GRU. The White House has linked the recent DDoS attacks that took offline the sites of banks and defense agencies of Ukraine to Russia’s Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (aka GRU). This […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2022
WordPress forces the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin patch on 3 million sites to fix a high-severity vulnerability. WordPress has forced the update of the UpdraftPlus plugin around three million sites to address a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0633 (CVSS v3.1 score of 8.5) that can allow website subscribers to download the latest database backups, which could potentially […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2022
Google introduces Privacy Sandbox on Android aimed at leading to more private advertising solutions for mobile users. Google announced Privacy Sandbox on Android to limit user data sharing and prevent the use of cross-app identifiers. The company states that the Privacy Sandbox technologies are still in development. “Privacy Sandbox on Android will strengthen privacy, while […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2022
Iran-linked TunnelVision APT group is actively exploiting the Log4j vulnerability to deploy ransomware on unpatched VMware Horizon servers. Researchers from SentinelOne have observed the potentially destructive Iran-linked APT group TunnelVision is actively exploiting the Log4j vulnerability to deploy ransomware on unpatched VMware Horizon servers. TunnelVision’s TTPs overlap with the ones associated with Iran-linked nation-state actors Phosphorus, Charming Kitten […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2022
Qualys experts found a new Linux privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44731, in Canonical’s Snap Package Manager. Canonical’s Snap software packaging and deployment system are affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including a privilege escalation flaw tracked as CVE-2021-44731 (CVSS score 7.8). Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2022
Researchers developed an exploit code for CVE-2022-24086 vulnerability affecting AdobeâŻCommerce andâŻMagento Open Source. Positive Technologies researchers have created a working PoC exploit for the recently patched CVE-2022-24086 vulnerability affecting its Commerce and Magento Open Source products. An attacker could use the exploit to achieve remote code execution from an unauthenticated user. This week, Adobe rolled […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2022
Attackers compromise Microsoft Teams accounts to attach malicious executables to chat and spread them to participants in the conversation. While the popularity of Microsoft Teams continues to grow, with roughly 270 million monthly active users, threat actors started using it as an attack vector. Starting in January 2022, security researchers from Avanan observed attackers compromising […]
