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Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2024
SolarWinds addressed a critical RCE in all Web Help Desk versions

SolarWinds addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its Web Help Desk solution for customer support. SolarWinds fixed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28986 (CVSS score 9.8), in SolarWinds’ Web Help Desk solution for customer support. The flaw is a Java deserialization issue that an attacker can exploit to run commands on a vulnerable host leading to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2024
Kootenai Health data breach impacted 464,000 patients

Kootenai Health suffered a data breach impacting over 464,000 patients following a 3AM ransomware attack. Kootenai Health disclosed a data breach impacting over 464,088 patients following the leak of their personal information by the ThreeAM (3AM) ransomware gang. Kootenai Health is a healthcare organization based in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. It is a regional medical center […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2024
A PoC exploit code is available for critical Ivanti vTM bug

Ivanti warned of a critical authentication bypass flaw in its Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) appliances that can allow attackers to create rogue administrator accounts. Ivanti addressed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7593 (CVSS score of 9.8), impacting Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) appliances that can allow attackers to create rogue administrator accounts. Ivanti vTM […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2024
Elon Musk claims that a DDoS attack caused problems with the livestream interview with Donald Trump

Elon Musk claims that the livestream interview with Donald Trump on the X social media platform was impacted by a cyberattack. Elon Musk claims that a massive DDoS attack caused problems with the announced interview with Donald Trump on the X platform Monday night. “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2024
CERT-UA warns of a phishing campaign targeting government entities

CERT-UA warned that Russia-linked actor is impersonating the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) in a new phishing campaign to distribute malware. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new phishing campaign targeting organizations in the country, including government entities. The campaign, tracked as UAC-0198, has been active since July. Threat actors sent out […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2024
US DoJ dismantled remote IT worker fraud schemes run by North Korea

The U.S. DoJ arrested a Tennessee man for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korea-linked IT workers to obtain remote jobs with American companies. The U.S. Justice Department arrested Matthew Isaac Knoot (38) from Nashville (Tennessee) for operating a “laptop farm” that facilitated North Korea-linked IT workers in obtaining remote jobs with American companies. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2024
A FreeBSD flaw could allow remote code execution, patch it now!

FreeBSD Project maintainers addressed a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that could allow remote code execution with elevated privileges. The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released urgent security updates to address a high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-7589, (CVSS score of 7.4) in OpenSSH. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with elevated […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2024
EastWind campaign targets Russian organizations with sophisticated backdoors

A campaign tracked as EastWind is targeting Russian government and IT organizations with PlugY and GrewApacha Backdoors. In late July 2024, Kaspersky researchers detected a series of targeted cyberattacks against the Russian government and IT organizations. Kaspersky named this campaign has EastWind. Threat actors sent phishing emails with RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2024
Microsoft found OpenVPN bugs that can be chained to achieve RCE and LPE

Microsoft found four bugs in OpenVPN that could be chained to achieve remote code execution and local privilege escalation. During the Black Hat USA 2024 conference, Microsoft researchers disclosed multiple medium-severity bugs in the open-source project OpenVPN that could be chained to achieve remote code execution (RCE) and local privilege escalation (LPE). OpenVPN is an […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2024
Foreign nation-state actors hacked Donald Trump’s campaign

Donald Trump’s campaign reported that its emails were hacked by “foreign sources hostile to the United States.” Donald Trump’s presidential campaign announced it was hacked, a spokesman attributes the attack to foreign sources hostile to the United States. The presidential campaign believes that Iran-linked threat actors may be involved in the cyber operation that is […]