Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2021
Glowworm Attack allows sound recovery via a device’s power indicator LED

The Glowworm attack leverages optical emanations from a device’s power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected peripherals and spy on electronic conversations. Boffins from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev devised a new attack technique, dubbed the “Glowworm attack,” that leverages optical emanations from a device’s power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2021
Four years after its takedown, AlphaBay marketplace revamped

The popular black marketplace AlphaBay is back, four years after law enforcement agencies took down the popular hidden service. The darknet marketplace AlphaBay resurfaced four years after an international operation conducted by law enforcement agencies took down it. AlphaBay was active between 2014 and June 2017, law enforcement seized the marketplace and arrested the administrator Alexandre Cazes (aka “Alpha02/Admin”), […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2021
Classified documents from Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are available for sale

Emails allegedly stolen from the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are available for sale in a cybercrime forum, some emails include high-sensitive info. An archive containing 1.6 million emails containing highly sensitive messages allegedly stolen from the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is available for sale on the RaidForums hacking forum. The ad doesn’t include […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2021
Dumping user’s Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext from Windows 365

A security expert devised a method to retrieve a user’s Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext from Microsoft’s new Windows 365 Cloud PC service using Mimikatz. Benjamin Delpy, the popular security researcher and author of the Mimikatz tool, has devised a method to retrieve a user’s Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext from Microsoft’s new Windows 365 […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2021
SynAck ransomware gang releases master decryption keys for old victims

The SynAck ransomware gang released the master decryption keys for their operations and rebranded as a new group dubbed El_Cometa group. Good news for the victims of the SynAck ransomware gang, the group released the master decryption keys to allow victims to decrypt their files for free. The gang has now rebranded as the new […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2021
Vice Society ransomware also exploits PrintNightmare flaws in its attack

Another ransomware gang, the Vice Society ransomware operators, is using Windows print spooler PrintNightmare exploits in its attacks. The Vice Society ransomware operators are actively exploiting Windows print spooler PrintNightmare vulnerability in their attacks against Windows servers. The PrintNightmare flaws (tracked as  (CVE-2021-1675, CVE-2021-34527, and CVE-2021-36958) reside in the Windows Print Spooler service, print drivers, and the Windows Point and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2021
Google open-sourced Allstar tool to secure GitHub repositories

Google has open-sourced the Allstar tool that can be used to secure GitHub projects and prevent security misconfigurations. Google has open-sourced the Allstar tool that can be used to secure GitHub projects by enforcing a set of security policies to prevent misconfiguration. “Allstar is a GitHub App installed on organizations or repositories to set and enforce security policies. Its […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2021
Microsoft warns of a evasive year-long spear-phishing campaign targeting Office 365 users

Microsoft warns of a long-running spear-phishing campaign that has targeted Office 365 customers in multiple attacks since July 2020. Microsoft revealed that a year-long spear-phishing campaign has targeted Office 365 customers in multiple attacks starting with July 2020. The attackers used invoice-themed XLS.HTML attachments, Microsoft reported that they changed obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2021
Trend Micro warns customers of zero-day attacks against its products

Security firms Trend Micro is warning its customers of attacks exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in its Apex One and Apex One as a Service products. On July 28, Trend Micro released security patches for multiple incorrect permission assignment privilege escalation, incorrect permission preservation authentication bypass, arbitrary file upload, and local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Apex One […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2021
Magniber Ransomware operators use PrintNightmare exploits to infect Windows servers

Threat actors behind the Magniber Ransomware are using PrintNightmare exploits in attacks aimed at Windows servers. Threat actors behind the Magniber Ransomware are exploiting the PrintNightmare flaws (CVE-2021-1675, CVE-2021-34527, and CVE-2021-36958) to infect Windows servers. The PrintNightmare flaws reside in the Windows Print Spooler service, print drivers, and the Windows Point and Print feature. A few hours ago […]