IT Army of Ukraine gained access to a 1.5GB archive from Gazprom

IT Army of Ukraine claims to have breached the infrastructure of the Russian energy giant Gazprom and had access to a 1.5 GB archive. The collective IT Army of Ukraine announced it has gained access to a 1.5 GB archive belonging to the Russian energy giant Gazprom. The group of hacktivists announced the hack on […]

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February 1, 2023
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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 (CVSS base 9.8/10). The PoC exploit code will trigger a series of flaws in VMware […]

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January 31, 2023
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GitHub to revoke stolen code signing certificates for GitHub Desktop and Atom

GitHub confirmed that threat actors exfiltrated encrypted code signing certificates for some versions of GitHub Desktop for Mac and Atom apps. GitHub this week disclosed a security breach, threat actors exfiltrated encrypted code signing certificates for some versions of GitHub Desktop for Mac and Atom apps. In response to the incident, the Microsoft-owned company is started […]

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January 31, 2023
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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 threatening companies’ engineers and workers and are inviting them to resign from their positions. The […]

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January 31, 2023
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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 its Telegram channel, calling for action against the US government healthcare. The list of targets […]

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January 31, 2023
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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 affects QNAP NAS devices. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to inject malicious code […]

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January 31, 2023
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JD Sports discloses a data breach impacting 10 million customers

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020. The company discovered unauthorized access to a server that contained […]

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January 31, 2023
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Researcher received a $27,000 bounty for 2FA bypass bug in Facebook and Instagram

A researcher disclosed technical details of a two-factor authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Instagram and Facebook. The researcher Gtm Manoz received a $27,000 bug bounty for having reported a two-factor authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Instagram and Facebook. The flaw resides in a component used by the parent company Meta for confirming a phone number and email […]

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January 30, 2023
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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 Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) immediately investigated the claims and as of January 27, […]

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January 30, 2023
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UNC2565 threat actors continue to improve the GOOTLOADER malware

The threat actors behind the GOOTLOADER malware continues to improve their code by adding new components and implementing new obfuscation techniques. Mandiant researchers reported that the UNC2565 group behind the GOOTLOADER malware (aka Gootkit) continues to improve their code by adding new components and implementing new obfuscation techniques. Gootkit runs on an access-a-as-a-service model, it is used […]

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January 30, 2023
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