Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2022
Okta revealed that its private GitHub repositories were hacked this month

American identity and access management giant Okta revealed that that its private GitHub repositories were hacked this month. Okta revealed that its private GitHub repositories were hacked this month, the news was first reported by BleepingComputer which had access to ‘confidential’ email notification sent by Okta. According to the notification threat actors have stolen the Okta’s source code. “As soon […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2022
Shoemaker Ecco leaks over 60GB of sensitive data for 500+ days

CyberNews researchers reported that Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/ecco-leaks-sensitive-data-for-months/ Ecco, a global shoe manufacturer and retailer, exposed millions of documents. Not only could anyone have modified the data, but the server misconfiguration’s severity likely left the company open to an attack that could have affected […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2022
German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp targeted in a new cyberattack

German multinational industrial engineering and steel production company ThyssenKrupp AG was the target of a cyberattack. German multinational industrial engineering and steel production giant ThyssenKrupp AG announced that the Materials Services division and corporate headquarters were hit by a cyberattack. At this time the company has yet to disclose the type of attack that hit […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2022
UAC-0142 APT targets Ukraine’s Delta military intelligence program

Ukraine’s CERT-UA revealed the national Delta military intelligence program has been targeted with a malware-based attack. On December 17, 2022, the Center for Innovations and Development of Defense Technologies of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine informed the Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) of being targeted by a malware-based attack. The spear […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2022
Russia-linked Gamaredon APT targeted a petroleum refining company in a NATO nation in August

Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group targeted a large petroleum refining company in a NATO state this year amid the invasion of Ukraine. The Russia-linked Gamaredon APT group (aka Shuckworm, Actinium, Armageddon, Primitive Bear, UAC-0010, and Trident Ursa) is behind a failed attack against a large petroleum refining company in a NATO member state earlier amid the invasion of Ukraine. Gamaredon […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2022
Microsoft shares details for a Gatekeeper Bypass bug in Apple macOS

Microsoft disclosed technical details of a vulnerability in Apple macOS that could be exploited by an attacker to bypass Gatekeeper. Microsoft has disclosed details of a now-fixed security vulnerability dubbed Achilles (CVE-2022-42821, CVSS score: 5.5) in Apple macOS that could be exploited by threat actors to bypass the Gatekeeper security feature. The Apple Gatekeeper is designed to protect […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2022
Malicious PyPI package posed as SentinelOne SDK to serve info-stealing malware

Researchers spotted a malicious package in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that impersonates a software development kit (SDK) for SentinelOne. Cybersecurity researchers at ReversingLabs have discovered a new malicious package, named ‘SentinelOne,’ on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that impersonates a legitimate software development kit (SDK) for SentinelOne. The malicious package was first […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2022
Old vulnerabilities in Cisco products actively exploited in the wild

IT giant Cisco is warning of threat actors exploiting many old vulnerabilities in attacks in the wild. Cisco has updated multiple security advisories to warn of the active exploitation of several old vulnerabilities impacting its products. The bugs, some of which are rated as ‘critical’ severity, impact Cisco IOS, NX-OS, and HyperFlex software. Below are […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2022
Experts spotted a variant of the Agenda Ransomware written in Rust

Researchers spotted a new variant of the Agenda ransomware which is written in the cross-platform programming language Rust. Trend Micro researchers have spotted a new variant of the Agenda ransomware (aka Qilin) that is written in Rust Language. The move follows the decision of other ransomware gangs, like Hive, Blackcat, RansomExx, and Luna, of rewriting their ransomware into […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2022
Glupteba botnet is back after Google disrupted it in December 2021

The Glupteba botnet is back, researchers reported a surge in infection worldwide after Google disrupted its operation in 2021. In December 2021, Google announced it has taken down the infrastructure operated by the Glupteba botnet, it also sued Russian nationals Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov for creating and operating the botnet. The blockchain-enabled botnet has been […]