Security Affairs newsletter Round 485 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2024

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Large-scale extortion campaign targets publicly accessible environment variable files (.env)
OpenAI dismantled an Iranian influence operation targeting the U.S. presidential election
National Public Data confirms a data breach
Banshee Stealer, a new macOS malware with a monthly subscription price of $3,000
Millions of Pixel devices can be hacked due to a pre-installed vulnerable app
ValleyRAT malware is targeting Chinese-speaking users
Microsoft urges customers to fix zero-click Windows RCE in the TCP/IP stack
A group linked to RansomHub operation employs EDR-killing tool EDRKillShifter
Google disrupted hacking campaigns carried out by Iran-linked APT42
Black Basta ransomware gang linked to a SystemBC malware campaign
A massive cyber attack hit Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks
China-linked APT Earth Baku targets Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
SolarWinds addressed a critical RCE in all Web Help Desk versions
Kootenai Health data breach impacted 464,000 patients
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for August 2024 addressed six actively exploited bugs
A PoC exploit code is available for critical Ivanti vTM bug
Elon Musk claims that a DDoS attack caused problems with the livestream interview with Donald Trump
CERT-UA warns of a phishing campaign targeting government entities
US DoJ dismantled remote IT worker fraud schemes run by North Korea
A FreeBSD flaw could allow remote code execution, patch it now!
EastWind campaign targets Russian organizations with sophisticated backdoors
Microsoft found OpenVPN bugs that can be chained to achieve RCE and LPE
Foreign nation-state actors hacked Donald Trump’s campaign
Malware
ADT disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 30,000 customers

International Press – Newsletter

Cybercrime  

Disrupting Russian Cybercrime: WWH-Club Admins Arrested  

  

 

Suspected head of prolific cybercrime groups arrested and extradited  

  

  

  

  

      

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iVerify Discovers Android Vulnerability Impacting Millions of Pixel Devices Around the World  

  

Intelligence and Information Warfare 

EastWind Campaign: New CloudSorcerer Attacks on Russian Government Organizations

UAC-0198: Widespread Distribution of ANONVNC (MESHAGENT) Among Ukrainian Government Organizations

  

 

Iranian backed group steps up phishing campaigns against Israel, U.S.      

  

 

  

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Inside the FBI’s Dashboard for Wiretapping the World  

  

   

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