Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2024
Critical Fortinet FortiOS bug CVE-2024-21762 potentially impacts 150,000 internet-facing devices

Researchers warn that the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-21762 in Fortinet FortiOS could potentially impact 150,000 exposed devices. In February, Fortinet warned that the critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2024-21762 (CVSS score 9.6) in FortiOS SSL VPN was actively exploited in attacks in the wild. The security firm did not provide details about the attacks exploiting this vulnerability. The issue […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2024
QNAP fixed three flaws in its NAS devices, including an authentication bypass

QNAP addressed three vulnerabilities in its NAS products that can be exploited to access devices. QNAP addressed three vulnerabilities in Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices that can be exploited to access the devices. The three flaws fixed are: The vulnerability CVE-2024-21899 (CVSS score 9.8) is the most severe of the above issues, it can be […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2024
Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard breached Microsoft systems again

Microsoft revealed that Russia-linked APT group Midnight Blizzard recently breached its internal systems and source code repositories. Microsoft published an update on the attack that hit the company on January 12, 2024, the IT giant revealed that the Russia-linked Midnight Blizzard recently breached again its internal systems and source code repositories. In January, Microsoft warned […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2024
CISA adds Apple iOS and iPadOS memory corruption bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple iOS and iPadOS memory corruption vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: This week, Apple released emergency security updates to address two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-23225 and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2024
Linux Malware targets misconfigured misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis servers

A new Linux malware campaign campaign is targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances. Researchers from Cado Security observed a new Linux malware campaign targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances. The threat actors behind this campaign employed previously undetected payloads, including four Golang binaries that are used to automate the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2024
Apple emergency security updates fix two new iOS zero-days

Apple released emergency security updates to address two new iOS zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild against iPhone users. Apple released emergency security updates to address two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-23225 and CVE-2024-23296, that were exploited in attacks against iPhone devices. CVE-2024-23225 is a Kernel memory corruption flaw, the company addressed it […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2024
CISA ADDS MICROSOFT WINDOWS KERNEL BUG USED BY LAZARUS APT TO ITS KNOWN EXPLOITED VULNERABILITIES CATALOG

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Microsoft Windows Kernel vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE-2024-21338 (CVSS Score 7.8) Microsoft Windows Kernel Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2024
Ukraine’s GUR hacked the Russian Ministry of Defense

The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense claims that it hacked the Russian Ministry of Defense. The Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense announced it had breached the Russian Ministry of Defense servers as part of a special operation, and exfiltrated confidential documents. Stolen documents include: The stolen documents […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2024
Some American Express customers’ data exposed in a third-party data breach

American Express warns customers that their credit cards were exposed due to a data breach experienced by a third-party merchant processor. American Express (Amex) notifies customers that their credit card information has been compromised in a data breach involving a third-party merchant processor. The company did not disclose the number of impacted customers. “We became […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2024
New GTPDOOR backdoor is designed to target telecom carrier networks

Researcher HaxRob discovered a previously undetected Linux backdoor named GTPDOOR, designed to target telecom carrier networks. Security researcher HaxRob discovered a previously undetected Linux backdoor dubbed GTPDOOR, which is specifically crafted to carry out stealth cyber operations within mobile carrier networks. The researcher believes that the threat actors behind GTPDOOR focuses on systems proximate to […]