Pierluigi Paganini

The Israel Institute of Technology Technion suffered a ransomware attack

The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology was breached on Sunday by a new anti-Israel threat actor calling itself DarkBit. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is Israel’s top technology research university and a leading center for cyber security education. A new anti-Israel threat actor calling itself DarkBit is claiming responsibility for the ransomware attack that breached the […]

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February 13, 2023
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Australian Defense Department will replace surveillance cameras from Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua

Australia’s Defense Department announced that they will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms linked to the government of Beijing. Australia’s Defense Department is going to replace surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua, who are linked to the government of Beijing. The decision of the Australian government is aligned with similar decisions […]

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February 12, 2023
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Russian Government evaluates the immunity to hackers acting in the interests of Russia

The Russian Government proposed to give a sort of immunity to the hackers that operate in the interests of Moscow. Russian media reported that Alexander Khinshtein, the head of the Duma committee on information policy, announced that the Russian government is evaluating to avoid punishing hackers acting in the interests of Moscow. “The question of […]

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February 12, 2023
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 406 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. Clop ransomware claims the hack of 130 orgs using GoAnywhere MFT flaw CISA adds Fortra […]

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February 12, 2023
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Clop ransomware claims the hack of 130 orgs using GoAnywhere MFT flaw

The Clop ransomware group claims to have breached over 130 organizations exploiting the GoAnywhere MFT zero-day. The Clop ransomware group claims to have stolen sensitive data from over 130 organizations by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-0669) in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer tool, BleepingComputer reported. Fortra immediately addressed the flaw with the release of […]

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February 11, 2023
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CISA adds Fortra MFT, TerraMaster NAS, Intel driver Flaws, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US CISA added actively exploited flaws in Fortra MFT, Intel driver, and TerraMaster NAS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. US CISA added actively exploited flaws in Fortra MFT, Intel driver, and TerraMaster NAS, respectively tracked as CVE-2023-0669, CVE-2015-2291, and CVE-2022-24990, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The CVE-2015-2291 flaw (CVSS v3 score 7.8) is a […]

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February 11, 2023
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DPRK fund malicious cyber activities with ransomware attacks on critical Infrastructure

North Korea-linked APT groups conduct ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund its activities. Ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure conducted by North Korea-linked hacker groups are used by the government of Pyongyang to fund its malicious cyber operations, U.S. and South Korean agencies warn. US CISA published a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to […]

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February 11, 2023
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New TA886 group targets companies with custom Screenshotter malware

The TA886 hacking group targets organizations in the United States and Germany with new spyware tracked as Screenshotter. A recently discovered threat actor, tracked as TA886 by security firm Proofpoint, is targeting organizations in the United States and Germany with new malware dubbed Screenshotter. The experts first spotted the attacks attributed to this threat actor […]

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February 10, 2023
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Reddit discloses security breach that exposed source code and internal docs

Social news aggregation platform Reddit suffered a security breach, attackers gained unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some business systems. Reddit announced it was hit by a sophisticated and highly-targeted attack that took place on February 5, 2023. A highly-targeted phishing attack hit the employees of the company. The company pointed out that Reddit […]

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February 10, 2023
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