The owner of the infamous cybercrime website BreachForums has pleaded guilty in a US court to conspiracy to commit device fraud, access device fraud, and possession of child pornography. The man, Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, 21, of Peekskill, New York, was arrested on March 15, 2023, being charged with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Fitzpatrick, ..
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“A causa di un attacco hacker nella notte, ieri mattina (12 luglio 2023), per sicurezza, sono stati disattivati i servizi digitali interni. Non saranno quindi disponibili fino ad ulteriore aggiornamento i servizi allo sportello e le utenze telefoniche, tra cui il numero verde dell’URP, 800.532532”. Lo ha annunciato il Comune di Ferrara sul proprio sito ..
After being notified by several security firms, Microsoft has revoked many signed drivers that had been leveraged by threat actors, in many cases by Chinese cybercriminals. Signed drivers can be highly useful to threat actors, allowing them to gain complete control of an already-compromised system. These drivers can be used to manipulate system processes, evade ..
Russian spies and cybercriminals are actively exploiting still-unpatched security flaws in Microsoft Windows and Office products, according to an urgent warning from the world’s largest software maker. In an unusual move, Microsoft documented “a series of remote code execution vulnerabilities” impacting Windows and Office users and confirmed it was investigating multiple reports of targeted code ..
Critical infrastructure services provider Ventia over the weekend announced that it has taken some of its systems offline to contain a cyberattack. Ventia provides long-term management, maintenance, and operations services for critical infrastructure organizations and for private entities across the defense, electricity and gas, environmental services, and water industries. The company says it operates more ..
Faced with a barrage of ransomware attacks hitting zero-days in its MOVEit product line, Progress Software late Thursday announced plans to release regular service sacks promising a “predictable, simple and transparent process for product and security fixes.” Less than a month after the notorious Cl0p ransomware gang started naming organizations hit by MOVEit zero-day exploits, ..
A 53-year-old man from Tracy, California, has been charged for allegedly hacking into the systems of a water treatment facility in an attempt to delete critical software. The suspect, Rambler Gallo, has been charged with “transmitting a program, information, code, and command to cause damage to a protected computer”, but this is a case of ..
Energy giant Shell has confirmed that personal information belonging to employees has been compromised as a result of the recent MOVEit Transfer hack. The Cl0p ransomware group exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit managed file transfer (MFT) product to steal data from at least 130 organizations that had been using the solution. To date, ..
Interpol on Wednesday announced the arrest of a suspected senior member of the French-speaking cybercrime group known as Opera1er. Also tracked as Common Raven, Desktop-Group, and NXSMS, the cyber gang is believed to have been involved in at least 30 successful attacks against African banks, financial services, mobile banking services, and telecoms firms. Identified in ..
