The LockBit ransomware gang claimed to have hacked Subway, the American multinational fast food restaurant franchise. Subway IP LLC is an American multinational fast-food restaurant franchise that specializes in submarine sandwiches (subs), wraps, salads, and drinks. The Lockbit ransomware group added Subway…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 455 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
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Admin of the BreachForums hacking forum sentenced to 20 years supervised release
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the admin of the BreachForums hacking forum, has been sentenced to 20 years supervised release. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the admin of the BreachForums hacking forum, was sentenced to 20 years of supervised release. In July, Conor Brian…
Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard APT hacked Microsoft corporate emails
Microsoft revealed that the Russia-linked APT Midnight Blizzard has compromised some of its corporate email accounts. Microsoft warned that some of its corporate email accounts were compromised by a Russia-linked cyberespionage group known as Midnight Blizzard. Microsoft notified law enforcement and…
VF Corp December data breach impacts 35 million customers
American global apparel and footwear company VF Corp revealed that the December data breach impacted 35.5 million customers. VF Corporation is an American global apparel and footwear company that owns 13 brands. In 2015, the company controlled 55% of the U.S. backpack market with the…
China-linked APT UNC3886 exploits VMware zero-day since 2021
China-linked group UNC3886 has been exploiting vCenter Server zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-34048 since at least late 2021. Mandiant researchers reported that China-linked APT group UNC3886 has been exploiting vCenter Server zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-34048 since at least late 2021. vCenter Server is…
Ransomware attacks break records in 2023: the number of victims rose by 128%
Ransomware groups claimed that they successfully targeted 4191 victims in 2023, Cybernews researchers report. According to the Ransomlooker tool, the number of ransomware attack victims increased by 128.17% compared to the previous year (2022), with 1837 additional incidents. Based on…
U.S. CISA warns of actively exploited Ivanti EPMM flaw CVE-2023-35082
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ivanti EPMM flaw CVE-2023-35082 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the Ivanti EPMM flaw CVE-2023-35082 (CVSS score: 9.8) vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. At…
Kansas State University suffered a serious cybersecurity incident
Kansas State University (K-State) suffered a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted part of its network and services. Kansas State University (K-State) suffered a cybersecurity incident that impacted a portion of its network and services. On January, 16, 2023, the University…
The Quantum Computing Cryptopocalypse – I’ll Know It When I See It
Can quantum computing break cryptography? Can it do it within a person’s lifetime? Will it be a cryptopocalypse, as some experts suggest? Can quantum computing break cryptography? Sure, it can. Can it do it within a person’s lifetime? Yes. In…
CISA adds Chrome and Citrix NetScaler to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Chrome and Citrix flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week Citrix warned customers to…
Google TAG warns that Russian COLDRIVER APT is using a custom backdoor
Google warns that the Russia-linked threat actor COLDRIVER expands its targeting and is developing a custom malware. The ColdRiver APT (aka “Seaborgium“, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and…
PixieFail: Nine flaws in UEFI open-source reference implementation could have severe impacts
Experts found multiple flaws, collectively named PixieFail, in the network protocol stack of an open-source reference implementation of the UEFI. Quarkslab researchers discovered nine vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as e PixieFAIL, affecting the IPv6 network protocol stack of EDK II, TianoCore’s open source…
iShutdown lightweight method allows to discover spyware infections on iPhones
Researchers devised a “lightweight method,” called iShutdown, to determine whether Apple iOS devices have been infected with spyware. Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky have identified a “lightweight method,” called iShutdown, to identify the presence of spyware on Apple iOS devices. The method allow to discover…
Pro-Russia group hit Swiss govt sites after Zelensky visit in Davos
Switzerland believes that the attack claimed by pro-Russian group NoName that hit the government websites is retaliation for Zelensky’s presence at Davos. Switzerland believes that the cyberattack carried out by pro-Russia group NoName disrupted access to some government websites, following Ukrainian…
Github rotated credentials after the discovery of a vulnerability
GitHub rotated some credentials after the discovery of a flaw that allowed access to the environment variables of a production container. After GitHub became aware of a vulnerability through its bug bounty program, the Microsoft-owned company rotated some credentials. The…
FBI, CISA warn of AndroxGh0st botnet for victim identification and exploitation
U.S. CISA and the FBI warned of AndroxGh0st malware used to create a botnet for victim identification and exploitation in target networks. US CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn of AndroxGh0st malware. The…
Citrix warns admins to immediately patch NetScaler for actively exploited zero-days
Citrix fixed two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Netscaler ADC and Gateway appliances. Citrix warns customers to install security updates to address two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-6548 and CVE-2023-6549, impacting Netscaler ADC and Gateway appliances. “Exploits of…
Atlassian fixed critical RCE in older Confluence versions
Atlassian warns of a critical remote code execution issue in Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server that impacts older versions. Atlassian warns of a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22527 (CVSS score 10.0), in Confluence Data Center and…
Google fixed the first actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2024
Google has addressed the first Chrome zero-day vulnerability of the year that is actively being exploited in the wild. Google has released security updates to address the first Chrome zero-day vulnerability of the year that is actively being exploited in…