Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2023
CISA warns of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices

U.S. CISA released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of a critical flaw affecting Illumina medical devices. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take any action at the operating system level. The issues […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023
OpenAI reinstates ChatGPT service in Italy after meeting Garante Privacy’s demands

OpenAI announced that access to its chatbot service ChatGPT is allowed again in Italy after the company met the demands of regulators. OpenAI restored access to ChatGPT in Italy after the company met the demands of the Italian Data Protection Authority, Garante Privacy. In early April, the Italian Data Protection Authority temporarily banned ChatGPT due […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023
Cisco discloses a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment solution

Cisco is working on a patch for a bug in the Prime Collaboration Deployment solution that was reported by a member of NATO’s Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). Cisco informed its customers that it’s working on a patch for cross-site scripting (XSS) issue, tracked as CVE-2023-20060 (CVSS score 6.1), affecting its Prime Collaboration Deployment product. The vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023
Zyxel fixed a critical RCE flaw in its firewall devices and urges customers to install the patches

A vulnerability impacting Zyxel firewalls, tracked as CVE-2023-28771, can be exploited to execute arbitary code on vulnerable devices. Researchers from TRAPA Security have discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28771 (CVSS score 9.8), impacting Zyxel Firewall. The vulnerability is an improper error message handling in Zyxel ZyWALL/USG series firmware versions 4.60 through 4.73, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023
Ukraine cyber police arrested a man for selling data of 300M people

The Ukrainian cyber police arrested a Ukraine man for selling the data of over 300 million people from different countries. The Ukrainian cyber police have arrested a man (36) from the city of Netishyn for selling the personal data and sensitive information of over 300 million people from different countries. The man had information on […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2023
Google obtained a temporary court order against CryptBot distributors

Google obtained a temporary court order in the U.S. to disrupt the operations of the CryptBot information stealer. Google announced that a federal judge in the Southern District of New York unsealed its civil action against the operators of the information stealer Cryptbot. The IT giant obtained a temporary court order in the U.S. to disrupt […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2023
Researchers found the first Linux variant of the RTM locker

RTM ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) started offering locker ransomware that targets Linux, NAS, and ESXi systems. The Uptycs threat research team discovered the first ransomware binary attributed to the RTM ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) provider. The new variant of the encryptor targets Linux, NAS, and ESXi hosts, it appears to be based on the source code of Babuk ransomware that was […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2023
Crooks use PaperCut exploits to deliver Cl0p and LockBit ransomware

Microsoft revealed that recent attacks against PaperCut servers aimed at distributing Cl0p and LockBit ransomware. Microsoft linked the recent attacks against PaperCut servers to a financially motivated threat actor tracked as Lace Tempest (formerly DEV-0950). The group is known to be an affiliate of the Clop ransomware RaaS affiliate, it has been linked to GoAnywhere attacks and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2023
CryptoRom: OkCupid scam cost Florida man $480k – we followed the money to Binance

CyberNews analyzed a classic cryptocurrency romance scam, also known as CryptoRom, explaining how scammers hid the money CryptoRom scammers hid the money with several layers of obfuscation, but the Cybernews research team discovered that the stolen funds ended up in Binance accounts. A man from Florida in the US recently reached out to Cybernews for […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2023
Iranian Charming Kitten APT used a new BellaCiao malware in recent wave of attacks

Iran-linked APT group Charming Kitten employed a new malware dubbed BellaCiao in attacks against victims in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and India. Iran-linked Charming Kitten group, (aka APT35, Phosphorus, Newscaster, and Ajax Security Team) made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the most elaborate net-based spying campaign organized by Iranian hackers using social media. Microsoft has been tracking the threat actors at […]