Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2021
Google Project Zero updates vulnerability disclosure policy moving to a “90+30” model

Google Project Zero security team has updated its vulnerability disclosure policy, it gives users 30 days to patch flaws before disclosing associated technical details. The Google Project Zero security team announced an update to its vulnerability disclosure policy, it could include additional 30 days to the disclosure process for some bugs to give end-users enough […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2021
6 out of 11 EU agencies running Solarwinds Orion software were hacked

SolarWinds supply chain attack also impacted six European Union institutions, European Commissioner for Budget and Administration confirmed. European Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn confirmed the hack of some EU agencies as result of the SolarWinds supply chain attack in a response to a question filed by an EU Parliament member in February 2021. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2021
Critical RCE can allow attackers to compromise Juniper Networks devices

Cybersecurity provider Juniper Networks addressed a critical vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to remotely hijack or disrupt vulnerable devices. Cybersecurity vendor Juniper Networks addressed a critical vulnerability in Junos OS, tracked as CVE-2021-0254, that could allow an attacker to remotely hijack or disrupt affected devices. This flaw stems from the improper buffer size […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2021
Russia-linked APT SVR actively targets these 5 flaws

The US government warned that Russian cyber espionage group SVR is exploiting five known vulnerabilities in enterprise infrastructure products. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have published a joint advisory that warns that Russia-linked APT group SVR  (aka APT29, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes). […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2021
Mirai code re-use in Gafgyt

Uptycs’ threat research team recently detected several variants of the Linux-based botnet malware family, “Gafgyt,”some of them re-used Mirai code.  Uptycs’ threat research team recently detected several variants of the Linux-based botnet malware family, “Gafgyt”, via threat intelligence systems and our in-house osquery-based sandbox. Upon analysis, we identified several codes, techniques and implementations of Gafgyt, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2021
Lazarus BTC Changer. Back in action with JS sniffers redesigned to steal crypto

Group-IB observed the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group stealing cryptocurrency using a never-before-seen tool. In the last five years, JavaScript sniffers have grown into one of the most dangerous threats for e-commerce businesses. The simple nature of such attacks combined with the use of malicious JavaScript code for intercepting payment data attract more and more […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2021
US Gov sanctions Russia and expels 10 diplomats over SolarWinds hack

The U.S. and UK attributed with “high confidence” the recently disclosed supply chain attack on SolarWinds to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). The U.S. and U.K. attributed with “high confidence” the supply chain attack on SolarWinds to operatives working for Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) (aka APT29, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes). The UK, US […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2021
Cyber thieves move $760 million stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex heist

Over $760 million worth of Bitcoin that were stolen from cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016 were moved to new accounts. More than $760 million worth of Bitcoin, stolen from Asian cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016, were moved on Wednesday to new accounts. On August 2016, the Asian Bitfinex suffered a security breach that resulted in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2021
April 2021 Security Patch Day fixes a critical flaw in SAP Commerce

April 2021 Security Patch Day includes 14 new security notes and 5 updates to previously released notes, one of them fixes a critical issue in SAP Commerce. April 2021 Security Patch Day includes 14 new security notes and 5 updates to previously released ones, among the issues addressed by the software giant there is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2021
For the second time in a week, a Google Chromium zero-day released online

For the second time in a week, a Chromium zero-day remote code execution exploit code has been released on Twitter, multiple browsers impacted. A new Chromium zero-day remote code execution exploit has been released on Twitter this week, like the previous one that affects current versions of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and likely other Chromium-based browsers. The […]