Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2021
Researchers at AT&T discovered a new BotenaGo botnet that is using thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. BotenaGo is a new botnet discovered by researchers at AT&T that leverages thirty three exploits to target millions of routers and IoT devices. Below is the list of exploits used by the bot: Vulnerability Affected devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2021
Threat actors compromised a server managing customer data for a Queensland water supplier and remained undetected for nine months. A served used by the SunWater statutory Queensland (Australia) Government-owned water supplier was compromised and threat actors remained undetected for nine longs, the annual financial audit report published by the Queensland Audit Office revealed. The water supplier […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2021
The US DoJ sentenced a Russian man for operating a large-scale digital advertising fraud scheme called Methbot (‘3ve’). The US DoJ sentenced the Russian nation Aleksandr Zhukov, aka the ‘King of Fraud,’ for operating a large-scale digital advertising fraud scheme called Methbot (‘3ve‘) that stole at least $7 million from US organizations. DoJ sentenced Zhukov […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2021
The FBI warned private industry partners of attempts by an Iranian threat actor to buy stolen information belonging to US organizations. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a private industry notification (PIN) to warn private industry partners that Iran-linked threat actors are attempting to buy stolen information belonging to US businesses and organizations abroad. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2021
Palo Alto Networks warns of an easy exploitable Remote Code Execution vulnerability in its GlobalProtect VPN product. Palo Alto Networks disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3064, in its GlobalProtect portal and gateway interfaces. The cybersecurity vendor warns that the vulnerability is easily exploitable by an unauthenticated network-based attacker. Successful exploitation can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2021
South Korean users have been targeted with a new sophisticated Android spyware, tracked as PhoneSpy, as part of an ongoing campaign. Researchers from Zimperium zLabs uncovered an ongoing campaign aimed at infecting the mobile phones of South Korean users with new sophisticated android spyware dubbed PhoneSpy. The malware already hit more than a thousand South […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2021
VMware announced it is working on patches for an important severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting vCenter Server. VMware announced itâs working on security patches to address an important severity privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22048, in its vCenter Server. vCenter Server is the centralized management utility for VMware and is used to manage virtual machines, multiple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2021
A critical vulnerability in the WP Reset PRO WordPress plugin can allow an authenticated user to wipe the entire database of WordPress sites. Researchers from cybersecurity form Packstack have discovered a critical vulnerability in the WP Reset PRO WordPress plugin that could be exploited by an authenticated user to completely wipe the database of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2021
Citrix addressed two vulnerabilities affecting Citrix ADC, Gateway, and SD-WAN, one of them is a critical issue leading to DoS. Citrix has released security updates to address two vulnerabilities in ADC, Gateway, and SD-WAN, including a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-22955, that can be exploited to trigger a denial of service (DoS) condition. The CVE-2021-22955 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2021
Taiwan ‘s government agencies face around five million cyberattacks and probes every day, most of them from China. Around five million cyber attacks hit Taiwan’s government agencies every day, and most of the hacking attempts are originated from China. Cyber security department director Chien Hung-wei told parliament representatives that government infrastructure faces “five million attacks […]
