Category: Security Affairs

A new variant of ESXiArgs ransomware makes recovery much harder

Experts warn of new ESXiArgs ransomware attacks using an upgraded version that makes it harder to recover VMware ESXi virtual machines. Experts spotted a new variant of ESXiArgs ransomware targeting VMware ESXi servers, authors have improved the encryption process, making it much…

Russian e-commerce giant Elevel exposed buyers’ delivery addresses

A leading electrical engineering company in Russia, Elevel, has exposed its customers’ personally identifiable information (PII,) including full names and addresses. Original post at https://cybernews.com/privacy/russian-e-commerce-giant-data-leak/ Founded in 1991, Elevel (previously Eleko) positions itself as the leading Russian electrical engineering company…

Researcher compromised the Toyota Supplier Management Network

The infrastructure of Toyota was compromised again, this time its global supplier management network was hacked by a researcher. The security researcher Eaton Zveare has exploited a vulnerability in Toyota’s Global Supplier Preparation Information Management System (GSPIMS) to achieve system…

New Graphiron info-stealer used in attacks against Ukraine

A Russia-linked threat actor has been observed deploying a new information stealer dubbed Graphiron in attacks against Ukraine. Researchers from Broadcom Symantec spotted a Russia-linked ATP group, tracked as Nodaria (aka UAC-0056), deploying new info-stealing malware, dubbed Graphiron, in attacks…

OpenSSH addressed a new pre-auth double free vulnerability

The maintainers of OpenSSH address multiple security issues, including a memory safety bug in the OpenSSH server (sshd). The maintainers of OpenSSH have addressed a number of security vulnerabilities with the release of version 9.2. One of the issues addressed…

Italy, France and Singapore Warn of a Spike in ESXI Ransomware

ESXi ransomware targeted thousands of VMware servers in a global-scale campaign, security experts and international CERTs warn. Thousands of computer servers have been targeted by a global ransomware hacking attack targeting VMware (VMW.N) ESXi servers. ESXi is VMware’s hypervisor, a…

GoAnywhere MFT zero-day flaw actively exploited

Threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability affecting Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT managed file transfer application. Experts warn that threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT managed file transfer application. The popular investigator Brian Krebs…

Experts warn of two flaws in popular open-source software ImageMagick

Experts disclosed details of two security flaws in the open-source software ImageMagick that could potentially lead to information disclosure or trigger a DoS condition. Researchers at Metabase Q discovered a couple of security vulnerabilities in the open-source image manipulation software ImageMagick that could potentially…

Pro-Russia Killnet group hit Dutch and European hospitals

The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) confirmed that Pro-Russia group Killnet hit websites of national and European hospitals. The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported that the websites of several hospital in the Netherlands and Europe were hit…

New Prilex PoS Malware evolves to target NFC-enabled credit cards

Authors of the Prolex PoS malware improved their malicious code to target contactless credit card transactions. The threat actors behind the sophisticated point-of-sale (PoS) malware Prilex have have improved its capabilities to block contactless payment transactions. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab discovered…

VMware Workstation update fixes an arbitrary file deletion bug

VMware addressed a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20854, in VMware Workstation. VMware fixed a high-severity privilege escalation flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-20854, that impacts Workstation. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to delete arbitrary files on Workstation version 17.x…

Nevada Ransomware Has Released Upgraded Locker

Researchers from Resecurity have identified a new version of Nevada Ransomware which recently emerged on the Dark Web right before the start of 2023. Resecurity, California-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 globally, has identified a new version of Nevada Ransomware…

Experts warn of two flaws in popular open-source software ImageMagick

Experts disclosed details of two security flaws in the open-source software ImageMagick that could potentially lead to information disclosure or trigger a DoS condition. Researchers at Metabase Q discovered a couple of security vulnerabilities in the open-source image manipulation software ImageMagick that could potentially…

Pro-Russia Killnet group hit Dutch and European hospitals

The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) confirmed that Pro-Russia group Killnet hit websites of national and European hospitals. The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported that the websites of several hospital in the Netherlands and Europe were hit…

New Prilex PoS Malware evolves to target NFC-enabled credit cards

Authors of the Prolex PoS malware improved their malicious code to target contactless credit card transactions. The threat actors behind the sophisticated point-of-sale (PoS) malware Prilex have have improved its capabilities to block contactless payment transactions. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab discovered…

Nevada Ransomware Has Released Upgraded Locker

Researchers from Resecurity have identified a new version of Nevada Ransomware which recently emerged on the Dark Web right before the start of 2023. Resecurity, California-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 globally, has identified a new version of Nevada Ransomware…

Experts released VMware vRealize Log RCE exploit for CVE-2022-31706

Horizon3 security researchers released proof-of-concept (PoC) code for VMware vRealize Log Insight RCE vulnerability CVE-2022-31706. Last week, researchers from Horizon3’s Attack Team announced the release of PoC exploit code for remote code execution in VMware vRealize Log tracked as CVE-2022-31706…

Pro-Palestine hackers threaten Israeli chemical companies

Threat actors are targeting Israeli chemical companies operating in the occupied territories, security experts warn. Threat actors have launched a massive hacking campaign aimed at Israeli chemical companies operating in the occupied territories. A group, named Electronic Quds Force, is…

Pro-Russia group Killnet targets US healthcare with DDoS attacks

The Pro-Russia group Killnet is launching a series of DDoS attacks against the websites of US healthcare organizations and hospitals. The Pro-Russia group Killnet launched a series of DDoS attacks against US healthcare organizations and hospitals. The group announced the attacks on…

QNAP addresses a critical flaw impacting its NAS devices

Taiwanese vendor QNAP is warning customers to install QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical flaw impacting its NAS devices. QNAP released QTS and QuTS firmware updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27596 (CVSS v3 score: 9.8), that…

Sandworm APT group hit Ukrainian news agency with five data wipers

The Ukrainian (CERT-UA) discovered five different wipers deployed on the network of the country’s national news agency, Ukrinform. On January 17, 2023, the Telegram channel “CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn” reported the compromise of the systems at the Ukrainian National Information Agency “Ukrinform”. The…

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe

Recent reports of Lockbit locker-based attacks against North European SMBs indicate that local crooks started using Lockbit locker variants. Executive Summary Incident Insights Recently, there has been a significant increase in ransomware attacks targeting companies in northern Europe. These attacks…

Sandworm APT targets Ukraine with new SwiftSlicer wiper

Russia-linked Sandworm APT group is behind a new Golang-based wiper, tracked as SwiftSlicer, that hit Ukraine, ESET reports. Researchers from ESET discovered a new Golang-based wiper, dubbed SwiftSlicer, that was used in attacks aimed at Ukraine. The experts believe that…

ISC fixed high-severity flaws in DNS software suite BIND

The latest BIND updates patch multiple remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS). BIND is a suite of software for interacting with the Domain Name System (DNS) maintained by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC). The ISC released security patches to…

Google Chrome 109 update addresses six security vulnerabilities

Google addressed six security vulnerabilities in its web browser Chrome, none of them actively exploited in the wild. Google released Chrome version 109.0.5414.119 for Mac and Linux and 109.0.5414.119/.120 for Windows to address a total of six vulnerabilities. Four of the addressed…

North Korea-linked TA444 group turns to credential harvesting activity

North Korea-linked TA444 group is behind a credential harvesting campaign targeting a number of industry verticals. Proofpoint researchers reported that North Korea-linked TA444 APT group (aka APT38, BlueNoroff, Copernicium, and Stardust Chollima) is behind a credential harvesting campaign targeting a number…

French rugby club Stade Français leaks source code

Prestigious club Stade Français potentially endangered its fans for over a year after leaking its website’s source code. Stade Français is a professional rugby union club based in Paris. Founded in 1883 and competing in France’s premier rugby league, Top…

VMware warns of critical code execution bugs in vRealize Log Insight

A critical vulnerability in VMware vRealize Log Insight appliance can allow an unauthenticated attacker to take full control of a target system. VMware addressed multiple vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-31706, CVE-2022-31704, CVE-2022-31710, and CVE-2022-31711, in its vRealize Log Insight appliance. VRealize…

Meta Platforms expands features for EE2E on Messenger App

Meta Platforms announced the implementation of more features into its end-to-end encrypted Messanger App. Meta Platforms started gradually expanding testing default end-to-end encryption for Messenger. The company announced that over the next few months, its users will continue to see…

Massive Ad fraud scheme VASTFLUX targeted over 11 million devices

Researchers dismantled a sophisticated ad fraud scheme, dubbed VASTFLUX, that targeted more than 11 million devices. HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team dismantled a sophisticated ad fraud operation dubbed VASTFLUX. The name VASTFLUX comes from the evasion technique “fast flux” and VAST, the Digital…

The Irish DPC fined WhatsApp €5.5M for violating GDPR

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta’s WhatsApp €5.5 million for violating data protection laws. The popular messaging app WhatsApp has been fined €5.5m by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…

Around 19,500 end-of-life Cisco routers are exposed to hack

Researchers warn of about 19,500 end-of-life Cisco VPN routers on the Internet that are exposed to the recently disclosed RCE exploit chain. Cisco recently warned of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20025 (CVSS score of 9.0), that impacts small business RV016, RV042,…

Cisco fixes SQL Injection flaw in Unified CM

A high-severity flaw (CVE-2023-20010) was found in Cisco Unified Communications Manager and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition. Cisco fixed a high-severity SQL injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-20010 (CVSS score of 8.1), in Unified Communications Manager and Unified Communications Manager…

Experts released PoC exploit for critical Zoho ManageEngine RCE flaw

Researchers released Proof-of-concept exploit code for remote code execution flaw CVE-2022-47966 impacting multiple Zoho ManageEngine products. The CVE-2022-47966 flaw is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that impacts multiple Zoho products with SAML SSO enabled in the ManageEngine setup. The issue…

Critical Microsoft Azure RCE flaw impacted multiple services

Researchers found a new critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw impacting multiple services related to Microsoft Azure. Researchers from Ermetic found a remote code execution flaw, dubbed EmojiDeploy, that impacts Microsoft Azure services and other cloud services including Function Apps,…

Two critical flaws discovered in Git source code version control system

The maintainers of the Git source code version control system urge to update the software to fix two critical vulnerabilities. The maintainers of the Git source code version control system announced to have fixed a couple of critical vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-23521 and CVE-2022-41903, in their software.…

A couple of bugs can be chained to hack Netcomm routers

A couple of critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in Netcomm rourers, experts warn of their potential exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities discovered in the Netcomm routers are a a stack based buffer overflow and an authentication bypass, respectively tracked…