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Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2021
Google fixes a critical Android RCE flaw in the System component

Google’s June security bulletin addresses more than 90 vulnerabilities in Android and Pixel devices, including a Critical RCE (CVE-2021-0507). Google’s June security bulletin addresses more than 90 vulnerabilities in Android and Pixel devices, including a Critical RCE tracked as CVE-2021-0507 that could allow to take over a device. “The most severe vulnerability in this section […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2021
Microsoft June 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 6 zero-days actively exploited

Microsoft’s June 2021 Patch Tuesday addressed 50 vulnerabilities, including six zero-day issues that are being actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft’s June 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 50 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, .NET Core and Visual Studio, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based and EdgeHTML), SharePoint Server, Hyper-V, Visual Studio Code – Kubernetes Tools, Windows HTML Platform, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2021
4 issues in Microsoft Office component allow weaponizing docs

Experts found four security flaws in the Microsoft Office suite that cloud allow attackers to weaponize Word and Excel docs. Experts from Check Point discovered four security vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Office suite that an attacker could exploit to craft weaponized Word and Excel documents. Below the list of flaws discovered by the experts: CVE-2021-31179 – […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2021
Spotify, PayPal, GitHub, and other major websites down due to Fastly CDN outage

A large number of popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, PayPal, GitHub, gov.uk, CNN, and the BBC are currently facing problems due to a glitch at Fastly CDN provider. A large number of popular websites, including BCC, CNN, GitHub, gov.uk, HBO Max, PayPal, Reddit, Shopify, Spotify, The Guardian, Twitch, Vimeo, The Guardian, and The New York Times […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2021
Trojan Shield, the biggest ever police operation against encrypted communications

Trojan Shield operation: The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform that was used by crime gangs and intercepted their communications. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Dutch National Police (Politie), and the Swedish Police Authority (Polisen), along with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and police from 16 other […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2021
US authorities recovered most of the ransom paid by Colonial Pipeline

US officials announced to have recovered most of the $4.3 million ransom that Colonial Pipeline paid to the DarkSide ransomware gang last month. During a video press conference, US officials announced to have recovered most of the $4.3 million ransomware that Colonial Pipeline paid to the DarkSide ransomware gang. The Colonial Pipeline facility in Pelham, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2021
RockYou2021: largest password compilation of all time leaked online with 8.4 billion entries

RockYou2021, the largest password compilation of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum, it contains 8.4 billion entries of passwords.  Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/rockyou2021-alltime-largest-password-compilation-leaked/ What seems to be the largest password collection of all time has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. A forum user posted a massive 100GB TXT file […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2021
Siloscape, first known malware that drops a backdoor into Kubernetes clusters

Siloscape is a new strain of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and spread in the Kubernetes cluster. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have spotted a piece of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and then drop a backdoor into Kubernetes […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2021
Russia behind a massive spear-phishing campaign that hit Ukraine

Ukraine warned of a “massive” spear-phishing campaign carried out by Russia-linked threat actors against its government and private businesses. Three Ukrainian cybersecurity agencies (Ukrainian Secret Service, Ukrainian Cyber Police, and CERT Ukraine), including the Ukrainian Secret Service, warned last week of a “massive” spear-phishing campaign conducted by Russia-linked hackers against its government and organizations in the private […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 07, 2021
Experts found an RCE vulnerability in QNAP Q’center

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Shielder discovered a remote code execution on QNAP Q’center through a manipulated QPKG installation package. Researchers at cybersecurity firm Shielder discovered a remote code execution flaw on QNAP Q’center through a manipulated QPKG installation package. The vulnerability was discovered by the cyber security expert`zi0Black` from Shielder Q’center now provides Q’center Virtual […]