Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2021
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
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 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
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 a zero-day in the Secure Mobile Access (SMA), addressed by SonicWall earlier this year, before the vendor released a fix. Researchers from FireEyeâs 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
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 researchers are warning of major security vulnerabilities affecting OT and IoT devices and high-risks for businesses using them. Researchers from Microsoftâs 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
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2021
Banca di Credito Cooperativo (BCC), one of the largest Italian cooperative credit banks was hit by a ransomware attack. Banca di Credito Cooperativo (BCC), one of the largest Italian cooperative credit banks, was hit by a cyberattack allegedly carried out by one of the most aggressive ransomware gangs, Darkside. The attack paralyzed the operations at 188 branches […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2021
An information disclosure issue in Linux Kernel allows KASLR bypass could be potentially exploited in attacks in the wild. An information disclosure flaw in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2020-28588, could allow attackers to bypass the Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization bypass (KASLR). The Kernel Address space layout randomization (KASLR) is a computer security technique designed to prevent […]
