IT Information Security

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2024
Ukrainian REvil gang member sentenced to 13 years in prison

A Ukrainian national, a member of the REvil group, has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for his role in extortion activities. The Ukrainian national, Yaroslav Vasinskyi (24), aka Rabotnik, has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison and must pay $16 million in restitution for conducting numerous ransomware attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2024
Pro-Russia hackers target critical infrastructure in North America and Europe

Government agencies from the US, Canada and the UK warn of Russian threat actors targeting critical infrastructure in North America and Europe The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy (DOE), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Drug […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2024
HPE Aruba Networking addressed four critical ArubaOS RCE flaws

HPE Aruba Networking addressed four critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting its ArubaOS network operating system. HPE Aruba Networking released April 2024 security updates that addressed four critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of the network operating system ArubaOS. The four vulnerabilities are unauthenticated buffer overflow issues that could be exploited to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2024
Threat actors hacked the Dropbox Sign production environment

Threat actors breached the Dropbox Sign production environment and accessed customer email addresses and hashed passwords Cloud storage provider DropBox revealed that threat actors have breached the production infrastructure of the DropBox Sign eSignature service and gained access to customer information and authentication data. Dropbox Sign is a service that allows users to electronically sign […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2024
CISA adds GitLab flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

CISA adds GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions improper access control vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions improper access control vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS score: 10.0), is an account takeover via Password Reset. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2024
Panda Restaurant Group disclosed a data breach

Panda Restaurant Group disclosed a data breach that occurred in March, resulting in the theft of associates’ personal information. Panda Restaurant Group disclosed a data breach that occurred in March, resulting in the theft of personal information belonging to its associates. Panda Restaurant Group, Inc. is the parent company of Panda Inn, Panda Express and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2024
Cuttlefish malware targets enterprise-grade SOHO routers

A new malware named Cuttlefish targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data. Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malware family, named Cuttlefish, which targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data from internet traffic. The malware creates a proxy […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2024
A flaw in the R programming language could allow code execution

A flaw in the R programming language enables the execution of arbitrary code when parsing specially crafted RDS and RDX files. A vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-27322 (CVSS v3: 8.8), in the R programming language could allow arbitrary code execution upon deserializing specially crafted R Data Serialization (RDS) or R package files (RDX). R is an open-source programming language widely […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2024
Muddling Meerkat, a mysterious DNS Operation involving China’s Great Firewall

The China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat are manipulating DNS to probe networks globally since 2019. Infoblox researchers observed China-linked threat actors Muddling Meerkat using sophisticated DNS activities since 2019 to bypass traditional security measures and probe networks worldwide. The experts noticed a spike in activity observed in September 2023. The threat actors appear to have the capability […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2024
Notorious Finnish Hacker sentenced to more than six years in prison

Finnish hacker was sentenced to more than six years in prison for hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic and attempted extortion. A popular 26-year-old Finnish hacker Aleksanteri KivimĂ€ki was sentenced to more than six years in prison for hacking into the online psychotherapy clinic Vastaamo Psychotherapy Center, exposing tens of thousands of patient therapy records, […]