Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2021
Tor Browser 10.5 is out, it includes a new anti-censorship feature

The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 10.5 which enhances an anti-censorship feature and warns of V2 onion URL deprecation. The Tor Project has released Tor Browser 10.5 which implements an improved anti-censorship feature and warns users of V2 onion URL deprecation in favor of the newer V3 URLs. The first version supporting V3 URLs […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2021
Hacker deposited $1M in a popular cybercrime marketplace to buy zero-day exploits

A threat actor has deposited 26.99 Bitcoins on one of the cybercrime forums, he aims at purchasing zero-day exploits from other forum members. A threat actor that goes online with the name “integra” has deposited 26.99 Bitcoins on one of the cybercrime forums with the intent to purchase zero-day Exploits from other forum members, researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble. According to the experts, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2021
Experts bypassed Microsoft’s emergency patch for the PrintNightmare

The emergency patch for the PrintNightmare vulnerability released by Microsoft is incomplete and still allows RCE. Yesterday, Microsoft has released an out-of-band KB5004945 security update to address the PrintNightmare vulnerability, unfortunately, the patch is incomplete and still allows remote code execution. Researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to bypass the emergency patch to achieve remote code execution […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2021
Wiregrass Electric Cooperative hit by a ransomware attack

Wiregrass Electric Cooperative, a rural Alabama electric cooperative was hit by a ransomware attack. Wiregrass Electric Cooperative, a rural Alabama electric cooperative that serves about 25,000 members, was hit by a ransomware attack. The cyberattack temporarily blocked the customers’ access to their account information, the cooperative is working to restore the impacted system. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2021
WildPressure APT expands operations targeting the macOS platform

WildPressure APT is targeting industrial organizations in the Middle East since 2019 and was spotted using now a new malware that targets both Windows and macOS. Researchers from Kaspersky have spotted a new malware used by the WildPressure APT group to targets both Windows and macOS systems. The WildPressure was spotted for the first time […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2021
Researchers uncovered the network infrastructure of REVil – The notorious ransomware group that hit Kaseya

ResecurityÂź HUNTER, cyber threat intelligence and R&D unit, identified a strong connection to a cloud hosting and IoT company servicing the domain belonging to cybercriminals. According to the recent research published by ReSecurity on Twitter, starting January 2021 REVil leveraged a new domain ‘decoder[.]re’ in addition to a ransomware page available in the TOR network. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2021
Microsoft rolled out emergency update for Windows PrintNightmare zero-day

Microsoft rolled out KB5004945 emergency update to address the actively exploited PrintNightmare zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-34527) in Print Spooler service. Microsoft has released the KB5004945 emergency security update to address the actively exploited CVE-2021-34527 zero-day vulnerability, aka PrintNightmare. “A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service improperly performs privileged file operations. An […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2021
Hacker leaks info of pro-Trump GETTR members online

A hacker has leaked claims to have breached pro-Trump GETTR and leaked the private information of almost 90,000 members on a hacking forum. GETTR is a new pro-Trump social media platform created by Jason Miller, a former Trump advisor, the Twitter-like platform suffered a data breach. The security breach comes a few hours after its […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2021
SonicWall addresses critical CVE-2021-20026 flaw in NSM devices

Positive Technologies experts provide details about potential impact of a recently fixes command injection flaw in SonicWall NSM devices. Positive Technologies researcher Nikita Abramov has provided details about the CVE-2021-20026 command injection vulnerability that affects SonicWall’s Network Security Manager (NSM) product. At the end of May, SonicWall urged its customers to ‘immediately’ address a post-authentication vulnerability, tracked […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2021
Approximatively 1,500 businesses impacted by the ransomware attack that hit Kaseya

Kaseya confirmed that the REvil supply-chain ransomware attack hit fewer than 60 of its customers and their customers. Software provider Kaseya announced that fewer than 60 of its customers and less than 1,500 businesses have been impacted by the recent supply-chain ransomware attack. Up to 1,500 downstream organizations, which were customers of MSPs using Kaseya VSA management […]