Tag: Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity – US, UK Officials: Russian Military Leveraging Containers in Active Hacking Campaign (Mariam Baksh, Nextgov)

Hackers from a Russian military unit are using automation technology to scale common password-guessing tactics and have successfully infiltrated their targets, according to a...

Cybersecurity – CISA alert urges to disable Windows Print Spooler to percent PrintNightmare attacks (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

CISA issued a security alert to warn admins to disable the Windows Print Spooler service on servers not used for printing due to PrintNightmare zero-day. CISA alert...

Cybersecurity – UK, US agencies warn of large-scale brute-force attacks carried out by Russian APT (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

US and UK cybersecurity agencies said the Russia-linked APT28 group is behind a series of large-scale brute-force attacks. UK, US agencies warn of brute-force attacks...

Cybersecurity – Hackers breached a data server of the University Medical Center (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The University Medical Center hospital discloses a data breach after threat actors published online images of stolen personal information as proof of the hack. University...

Cybersecurity – Microsoft found auth bypass, system hijack flaws in Netgear routers (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Microsoft experts have disclosed a series of vulnerabilities in the firmware of Netgear routers which could lead to data leaks and full system takeover. Microsoft...

Cybersecurity – US CISA releases a Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA) tool (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The US CISA has released the Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA), a new ransomware self-assessment security audit tool. US CISA releases a Ransomware Readiness Assessment (RRA)...

USA/Russia – NSA, FBI warn of ongoing brute force hacking campaign tied to Russian military (Natalie Gagliordi, ZD Net)

A brute force password-hacking campaign led by Russian military intelligence tied to the group Fancy Bear has been targeting US and European organizations since...

Cybersecurity – Let’s take a walk on the Darkside (ZD net)

Tonya Hall interviews Limor Kessem, Executive Security Advisor at IBM Security, and gets all the details on the Darkside ransomware attack campaigns. Let's take a...

Cybersecurity – Freshly scraped LinkedIn data of 88,000 US business owners shared online (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online, it seems that threat actors have no...

Cybersecurity – Hackers hit a televised phone-in between President Putin and citizens at a TV show (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

A massive cyber attack attempted to disrupt a televised phone-in between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Rossiya 24 network. Hackers hit a televised phone-in...

Cybersecurity – Colombian authorities arrested hacker behind the Gozi Virus (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Colombian authorities arrested a Romanian hacker who is wanted in the U.S. for distributing the Gozi virus that already infected more than a million...

Cybersecurity – Russian-based DoubleVPN seized by law enforcement (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Law enforcement seized the servers and customer logs for DoubleVPN, a double-encryption service widely used by threat actors for malicious purposes. Russian-based DoubleVPN seized by...

Cybersecurity – SolarWinds hackers remained hidden in Denmark’s central bank for months (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Russia-linked threat actors compromised Denmark’s central bank (Danmarks Nationalbank) and remained in its systems for months. SolarWinds hackers remained in Denmark's central bank for monthsSecurity...

Cybersecurity – New LinkedIn breach exposes data of 700 Million users (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

A new massive LinkedIn breach made the headlines, the leak reportedly exposes the data of 700M users, more than 92% of the total 756M...

Cybersecurity – Linux version of REvil ransomware targets ESXi VM (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

The REvil ransomware operators added a Linux encryptor to their arsenal to encrypt Vmware ESXi virtual machines. Linux version of REvil ransomware targets ESXi VMSecurity...

Cybersecurity – Experts developed a free decryptor for the Lorenz ransomware (Pierluigi Paganini, Security Affairs)

Researchers analyzed a recently discovered threat, the Lorenz ransomware, and developed a free decryptor for the victims of this new operation. Experts developed a free...