Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2023
The Polish domestic security agency is investigating a hacking attack on the national railways, Polish media report. Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) and national police have launched an investigation into a hacking attack on the state’s railway network. According to the Polish Press Agency, the attack disrupted the traffic overnight last week. Stanisław Zaryn, deputy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2023
The leak of the source code of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware builder in 2022 allowed threat actors to create new variants of the threat. Lockbit v3, aka Lockbit Black, was detected in June 2022, but in September 2022 a builder for this variant was leaked online. The availability of the builder allowed anyone to create their own […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2023
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Cloud and hosting provider Leaseweb took down critical systems after a cyber attack French employment agency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2023
Cisco addressed three high-severity flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software that could cause denial-of-service (DoS) conditions. Cisco this week addressed multiple flaws in its products, including three high-severity flaws in NX-OS and FXOS software. An attacker can exploit these three issues to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Below is the list of flaws addressed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2023
The cloud and hosting provider Leaseweb suffered a security breach that impacted some “critical” systems of the company. Global hosting and cloud services provider Leaseweb has disabled some “critical” systems following a recent security breach. The company informed its customers that is now working on restoring these systems. According to a notice of incident sent […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2023
Pôle emploi, the French government employment agency suffered a data breach that impacted 10 million individuals. The French government employment agency Pôle emploi suffered a data breach and is notifying 10 million individuals impacted by the security breach. At the end of last week, the agency was informed of the compromise of the information system of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2023
Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed a data breach resulting from a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees. Security consulting firm Kroll revealed that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees caused the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms. Kroll is managing ongoing bankruptcy proceedings for the impacted organizations, including BlockFi, FTX, and Genesis. On August […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2023
China-linked APT group Flax Typhoon targeted dozens of organizations in Taiwan as part of a suspected espionage campaign. Microsoft linked the Chinese APT Flax Typhoon (aka Ethereal Panda) to a cyber espionage campaign that targeted dozens of organizations in Taiwan. The researchers observed Flax Typhoon gaining and maintaining long-term access to Taiwanese organizations’ networks with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2023
Experts observed the SmokeLoader malware delivering a new Wi-Fi scanning malware strain dubbed Whiffy Recon. Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) researchers observed the Smoke Loader botnet dropping a new Wi-Fi scanning malware named Whiffy Recon. The malicious code triangulates the positions of the infected systems using nearby Wi-Fi access points as a data point for Google’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2023
The FBI warned that patches for a critical Barracuda ESG flaw CVE-2023-2868 are “ineffective” and patched appliances are still being hacked. The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned that security patches for critical vulnerability CVE-2023-2868 in Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) are “ineffective.” According to the feds, threat actors are still hacking the patched appliances in […]
