TRU Security

The German energy provider Entega reported a cyberattack over the weekend, impacting their online services and the email accounts of the 2,000 employees. The critical infrastructure of the energy network was not compromised. Stadtwerke Mainz and a regional waste disposal company both reported issues as well.

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update covered 60 vulnerabilities, of which three were considered critical — meaning that they can be remotely exploited to gain full control of the machine. One of these three is the Follina vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostics Tool (MSDT), which has already been heavily exploited.

The BlackCat extortion gang, also known as ALPHV, has taken the data leak site to a whole new level — providing a way for individuals to check if their personal information was included in batches of stolen data.

An unpatched remote code execution vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT), which is being tracked as CVE-2022-30192, is being exploited in phishing campaigns that are targeting U.S. and European government organizations.

Palermo, a city of 1.3 million people and a popular tourist destination in Southern Italy, has become the latest victim of a Vice Society ransomware attack.

First appearing on the scene as a banking trojan in 2007, Qbot has since expanded to become a powerful botnet threat that frequently works with ransomware gangs. Now the group can count Black Basta as their latest partner.

A new Windows vulnerability, dubbed CVE-2022 30190 (or "Follina"), allows attackers to create a Word document that will execute malicious code through the MSDT protocol when a user opens the file in Preview mode.