Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2019
Magento addressed flaws that could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to hijack administrative sessions and completely take over online stores. Magento addressed security vulnerabilities that could be chained by an unauthenticated attacker to hijack administrative sessions and completely take over online stores. The attacker would first exploit a Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability to inject […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2019
Kaspersky experts discovered that Sodinokibi, aka Sodin, Ransomware currently also exploits the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability to elevate privileges in Windows The Sodinokibi Ransomware (aka Sodin, REvil) appeared in the threat landscape in April when crooks were delivering it by exploiting a recently patched Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability. Now the threat is evolving, the Sodinokibi ransomware includes fresh […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2019
Tens of VMware products are affected by recently discovered SACK Panic and SACK Slowness Linux kernel vulnerabilities. At least 30 VMware products are affected by recently discovered SACK Panic and SACK Slowness Linux kernel vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and reboot vulnerable systems. Impacted products […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2019
Opening an HTML file on Firefox could allow attackers to steal files stored on a victim’s computer due to a weakness in the popular web browser. The security expert Barak Tawily demonstrated that opening an HTML file on Firefox could allow attackers to steal files stored on a victim’s computer due to a 17-year-old known bug in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2019
Group-IB believes Silence APT, the Russian-speaking cybercriminal gang, is likely to be behind the attack on Dutch Bangla Bank’s ATMs resulting in the theft of $3M, Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has established that Silence APT, a Russian-speaking cybercriminal group is likely to be behind the brazen attack on Dutch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2019
Chinese border guards are secretly installing a surveillance app on smartphones of tourists and people crossings in the Xinjiang region who are entering from Kyrgyzstan. Are you entering in the Xinjiang (China) from Kyrgyzstan? There is something that you need to know, Chinese border guards are secretly installing surveillance software on the mobile devices of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2019
Google released the July 2019 security patches for the Android OS that address a total of 33 vulnerabilities, including 9 issues rated as Critical. The most severe flaw addressed by Google is a critical security issue (CVE-2019-2106) affecting the Media framework that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code within the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2019
US Cyber Command posted on Twitter an alert about cyber attacks exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 vulnerability in Outlook. Yesterday I was using Twitter when I noticed the following alert issued by the account managed by the US Cyber Command: The alert refers to an ongoing activity aimed at infecting government networks by exploiting the CVE-2017-11774 Outlook […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2019
Experts found a Chinese smart home solutions vendor that has been leaking billions of logs from devices managed via its cloud platform. Experts at vpnMentor discovered a massive data leak in Orvibo’s user database. The research team, led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, has found an open database managed by Orvibo Smart Home vendor. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2019
Some court websites of a Georgia state were brought offline after their systems were infected by ransomware in a cyber attack. A Georgia state agency confirmed that a cyberattack has brought offline some court websites. According to local media, hackers infected the systems of the Georgia Administrative Office of the Courts with ransomware, “News outlets […]
