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Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2020
Santander, one of the biggest European banks, was leaking sensitive data on their website

Santander Consumer Bank, the Belgian branch of the bank, had a misconfiguration in its blog domain that was allowing its files to be indexed. Our new research recently discovered a security issue with Santander, the 5th largest bank in Europe and the 16th largest in the world. This Spanish multinational bank controls approximately $1.4 trillion in […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2020
Sophos blocked attacks exploiting XG Firewall zero-day to deploy Ransomware

Hackers attempted to exploit a zero-day flaw in the Sophos XG firewall to distribute ransomware to Windows machines, but the attack was blocked. Threat actors attempted to exploit a zero-day (CVE-2020-12271) in the Sophos XG firewall to spread ransomware to Windows machines, the good news is that the attack was blocked by a hotfix issued […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2020
Meal delivery service Home Chef discloses data breach

Meal delivery service Home Chef has confirmed that it recently suffered a security breach that exposed its customer information. Meal delivery service Home Chef has disclosed a data breach that exposed its customer information. Home Chef also explained that only a portion ot its customers were impacted in the security incident. In early May, Shiny […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2020
Tens of thousands Israeli websites defaced

Thousands of Israeli websites have been defaced earlier today, hackers published an anti-Israeli message on their homepage and attempted to implant malicious code. A massive hacking campaign defaced thousands of Israeli websites, attackers published an anti-Israeli message on their homepage and attempted to inject a malware seeking permission to access visitors’ webcams. “Be ready for […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2020
Japan suspects HGV missile data leak in Mitsubishi security breach

Japan continues to investigate a cyberattack that hit this year Mitsubishi Electric Corp., it suspects a possible leak of data including details of a prototype missile. Japan is still investigating a cyberattack that was disclosed by Mitsubishi Electric Corp. early this year. In January, the company disclosed a security breach that might have exposed personal and confidential corporate data, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2020
VMware fixes CVE-2020-3956 Remote Code Execution issue in Cloud Director

VMware has addressed a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3956, that affects its Cloud Director product. VMware has patched a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3956, in its Cloud Director product. The vulnerability is a code injection issue that could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to send malicious traffic to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2020
Adobe fixed several memory corruption issues in some of its products

Adobe addressed multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities, including one that allows arbitrary code execution, in several of its products. Adobe addressed multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities in several of its products, including an arbitrary code execution. The issues affect Character Animation, Premiere Rush, Premiere Pro, and Audition, they were reported to Adobe by researcher Mat Powell of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2020
Israel is suspected to be behind the cyberattack on Iranian port

Israel is likely behind the recent cyberattack which disrupted some operations at Iran’s Shahid Rajaei Port, located near the Strait of Hormuz. A couple of weeks ago, Iranian officials announced that hackers damaged a small number of systems at the port of Shahid Rajaei in the city of Bandar Abbas. Bandar Abbas is the capital of Hormozgān […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2020
Researchers disclose five Microsoft Windows zero-days

Security experts have disclosed five unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, four of which rated as high-risk severity. Security experts from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) have published information on five unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows. Four vulnerabilities are classified as high-risk severity, three of them are zero-day vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2020-0916, CVE-2020-0986, and CVE-2020-0915. The flaws […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2020
Three flaws in Nitro Pro PDF reader expose businesses to hack

Two vulnerabilities in the Nitro Pro PDF editor could be exploited by threat actors to execute code remotely on vulnerable hosts. Security experts from Cisco Talos have discovered three vulnerabilities in the Nitro Pro PDF editor, two of which rated as critical (CVSS score of 8.8) could be exploited by attackers for remote code execution. Nitro […]