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Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2023
French rugby club Stade Français leaks source code

Prestigious club Stade Français potentially endangered its fans for over a year after leaking its website’s source code. Stade Français is a professional rugby union club based in Paris. Founded in 1883 and competing in France’s premier rugby league, Top 14, it has established itself as one of the most successful teams in the country, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2023
DragonSpark threat actor avoids detection using Golang source code Interpretation

Chinese threat actor tracked as DragonSpark targets organizations in East Asia with a Golang malware to evade detection. SentinelOne researchers spotted a Chinese-speaking actor, tracked as DragonSpark, that is targeting organizations in East Asia. The attackers employed an open source tool SparkRAT along with Golang malware that implements an uncommon technique to evade detection. “The threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2023
Pakistan hit by nationwide power outage, is it the result of a cyber attack?

Pakistan suffered a nationwide blackout, local authorities are investigating the cause and suspect it was the result of a cyberattack. On Monday, a nationwide blackout in Pakistan left millions of people in the darkness, and the authorities are investigating if it was caused by a cyberattack. The power outage impacted all the major cities in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2023
GoTo revealed that threat actors stole customers’ backups and encryption key for some of them

GoTo is notifying customers that its development environment was breached in November 2022, attackers stole customers’ backups and encryption key. GoTo, formerly LogMeIn Inc, is a flexible-work provider of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud-based remote work tools for collaboration and IT management, The company is warning customers that threat actors breached its development environment in November 2022 and stole encrypted […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2023
FBI confirms that North Korea-linked Lazarus APT is behind Harmony Horizon Bridge $100 million cyber heist

The U.S. FBI attributes the $100 million cyber heist against Harmony Horizon Bridge to North Korea-linked Lazarus APT. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week confirmed that in June 2022 the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group and APT38 stole $100 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from the Blockchain company Harmony Horizon Bridge. “The FBI continues […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2023
Meta Platforms expands features for EE2E on Messenger App

Meta Platforms announced the implementation of more features into its end-to-end encrypted Messanger App. Meta Platforms started gradually expanding testing default end-to-end encryption for Messenger. The company announced that over the next few months, its users will continue to see some of their chats gradually being upgraded with end-to-end encryption.  “We will notify people in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2023
CISA added Zoho ManageEngine RCE (CVE-2022-47966) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US CISA added the Zoho ManageEngine RCE vulnerability CVE-2022-47966 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The US CISA added the Zoho ManageEngine remote code execution flaw (CVE-2022-47966) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The CVE-2022-47966 flaw is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that impacts multiple Zoho products with SAML SSO enabled in the ManageEngine setup. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2023
Apple backported patches for CVE-2022-42856 zero-day on older iPhones, iPads

Apple has backported the security updates for the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2022-42856 to older iPhones and iPads. On December 2022, Apple released security updates to address a new zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42856, that is actively exploited in attacks against iPhones. The IT giant released security bulletins for iOS/iPadOS 15.7.2, Safari 16.2, tvOS 16.2, and macOS Ventura 13.1. Apple addressed […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2023
Two flaws in Samsung Galaxy Store can allow to install Apps and execute JS code

Researchers found two flaws in Samsung Galaxy Store that could be exploited to install applications or achieve code execution on the devices. Researchers from cybersecurity firm NCC Group published technical details on two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-21433 and CVE-2023-21434, in Samsung Galaxy Store that could be exploited to install applications or execute malicious JavaScript code. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2023
Companies impacted by Mailchimp data breach warn their customers

The recent Mailchimp data breach has impacted multiple organizations, some of them are already notifying their customers. The popular email marketing and newsletter platform Mailchimp recently disclosed a news data breach, the incident exposed the data of 133 customers. Threat actors targeted the company’s employees and contractors to gain access to an internal support and […]