Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini A previously unknown ransomware group known as RA Group is targeting companies in U.S. and South Korea with leaked Babuk...
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Introducing the DRM-Report Q1 2023: Unveiling the Current State of Ransomware – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini DRM Dashboard Ransomware Monitor released the first quarterly report for the year 2023 about the activities of ransomware groups globally....
Former Ubiquiti employee gets 6 years in jail for stealing confidential data and extorting company – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini A former Ubiquiti employee has been sentenced to six years in jail for the theft of confidential data and extorting company for...
Former ByteDance executive alleges TikTok of wrongful conduct – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini A former ByteDance executive revealed that the China government has access to TikTok data, including data stored in the United....
The latest variant of the RapperBot botnet adds cryptojacking capabilities – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini FortiGuard Labs Researchers spotted new samples of the RapperBot botnet that support cryptojacking capabilities. FortiGuard Labs researchers have discovered new...
Capita warns customers to assume that their data was stolen – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini UK outsourcing giant Capita is informing customers that their data may have been stolen in the cyberattack that hit the...
Security Affairs newsletter Round 419 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition – Source: securityaffairs.com
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Personal info of 90k hikers leaked by French tourism company La Malle Postale – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini La Malle Postale, a transportation company serving hikers on popular hiking trails in France, leaked personal data and private messages...
Data of more than 2M Toyota customers exposed in ten years-long data breach – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini A data breach disclosed by Toyota Motor Corporation exposed info of more than 2 million customers for ten years Toyota...
Discord suffered a data after third-party support agent was hacked – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Discord disclosed a data breach, the security breach was caused by the compromise of a third-party support agent’s account. Discord,...
Russia-affiliated CheckMate ransomware quietly targets popular file-sharing protocol – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini The CheckMate ransomware operators have been targeting the Server Message Block (SMB) communication protocol used for file sharing to compromise...
Bl00dy Ransomware Gang actively targets the education sector exploiting PaperCut RCE – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini U.S. CISA and FBI warned of attacks conducted by the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang against the education sector in the country. The...
Leaked source code of Babuk ransomware used by 10 different ransomware families targeting VMware ESXi – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini The leak of the source code of the Babuk ransomware allowed 9 ransomware gangs to create their own ransomware targeting...
What the Email Security Landscape Looks Like in 2023 – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Email-based threats have become increasingly sophisticated, how is changing the Email Security Landscape? For over a decade, email has been...
The Black Basta ransomware gang hit multinational company ABB – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Swiss electrification and automation technology giant ABB suffered a Black Basta ransomware attack that impacted its business operations. Swiss multinational...
A flaw in the Essential ‘Addons for Elementor’ WordPress plugin poses 1M sites at risk of hacking – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Experts warn of an unauthenticated privilege escalation flaw in the popular Essential ‘Addons for Elementor’ WordPress plugin. Essential ‘Addons for...
Experts share details of five flaws that can be chained to hack Netgear RAX30 Routers – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Researchers disclosed the details of five vulnerabilities that can be chained to take over some Netgear router models. Industrial and...
We are in the final! Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Dear readers and friends, once again we are in the final of the European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards 2022 and I...
Google will provide dark web monitoring to all US Gmail users and more – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Google announced the opening of the dark web monitoring report security feature to all Gmail users in the United States....
North Korea-linked APT breached the Seoul National University Hospital – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) warns that a North Korea-linked APT group had breached the Seoul National University Hospital...
A zero-click vulnerability in Windows allows stealing NTLM credentials – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Researchers shared technical details about a flaw in Windows MSHTML platform, tracked as CVE-2023-29324, that could be abused to bypass security protections. Cybersecurity...
Cybersecurity firm Dragos shared details about a failed extortion attempt it suffered – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos revealed that a ransomware group attempted to breach its infrastructure and extort it. Industrial cybersecurity firm...
DownEx cyberespionage operation targets Central Asia – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini A new sophisticated malware strain, dubbed DownEx, was involved in attacks aimed at Government organizations in Central Asia. In late 2022, Bitdefender...
Smashing Pumpkins frontman paid ransom to a hacker who threatened to leak the band’s songs – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini The frontman of the American alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan, has revealed he paid hackers who stole the band’s songs The frontman...
US disrupts Russia-linked Snake implant’s network – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini The US government announced to have disrupted the peer-to-peer (P2P) network of computers compromised by the Snake malware. The Snake...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2023 fixed 2 actively exploited zero-day flaws – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security updates for May 2023 address a total of 40 vulnerabilities, including two zero-day actively exploited in...
The global food distribution giant Sysco discloses a data breach – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Sysco, the global food distribution giant, disclosed a data breach, the compromised data includes customer and employee data. Sysco Corporation is...
A Linux NetFilter kernel flaw allows escalating privileges to ‘root’ – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini A Linux NetFilter kernel flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-32233, can be exploited by unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to...
Fortinet warns of a spike of the activity linked to AndoryuBot DDoS botnet – Source: securityaffairs.com
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini A DDoS botnet dubbed AndoryuBot has been observed exploiting an RCE, tracked as CVE-2023-25717, in Ruckus access points. FortiGuard Labs...





























