Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2022
Microsoft revised the severity rate for the CVE-2022-37958 flaw which was addressed with Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2022. Microsoft revised the severity rate for the CVE-2022-37958 vulnerability, the IT giant now rated it as “critical” because it discovered that threat actors can exploit the bug to achieve remote code execution. The CVE-2022-37958 was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2022
A Chinese-speaking APT group, tracked as MirrorFace, is behind a spear-phishing campaign targeting Japanese political entities. ESET researchers recently discovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting Japanese political entities and attributed it to the Chinese-speaking APT group tracked as MirrorFace. The experts tracked the campaign as Operation LiberalFace, it aimed at Japanese political entities, especially the members of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2022
The portal of the FBI’s InfraGard US Critical Infrastructure Intelligence was hacked, and data is available for sale on a cybercrime forum. InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and members of the private sector for the protection of U.S. Critical Infrastructure. Through seamless collaboration, InfraGard connects owners and operators within […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) seized forty-eight domains that offered DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms to crooks. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) this week announced the seizure of 48 domains associated with the DDoS-for-Hire Service platforms (aka Booter services) used by threat actors. Below is the list of domains seized by the FBI: The authorities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2022
Talos researchers uncovered a phishing campaign distributing the QBot malware to Windows systems using SVG files. Talos researchers uncovered a phishing campaign distributing the QBot malware using a new technique that leverages Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images embedded in HTML email attachments. HTML smuggling is a highly evasive technique for malware delivery that leverages legitimate HTML5 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2022
Researchers discovered a new Go-based botnet, dubbed GoTrim, attempting to brute force WordPress websites. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers spotted a new Go-based botnet, dubbed GoTrim, that has been spotted scanning and brute-forcing WordPress and OpenCart websites. The botnet was named GoTrim because it was written in Go and uses “:::trim:::” to split data sent and received […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2022
Apple rolled out security updates to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and Safari to fix a new actively exploited zero-day (CVE-2022-42856). Apple released security updates to address a new zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42856, that is actively exploited in attacks against iPhones. The flaw is the tenth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability since the start of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2022
The number of internet-facing cameras in the world is growing exponentially. Some of the most popular brands don’t enforce a strong password policy, meaning anyone can peer into their owners’ lives. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/millions-ip-cameras-exposed/ When you spy on your neighborhood or your cafe customers, do you wonder if someone is watching Big Brother – […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2022
VMware fixed three flaws in multiple products, including a virtual machine escape issue exploited at the GeekPwn 2022 hacking competition. VMware addressed three vulnerabilities in multiple products, including a virtual machine escape flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-31705, that was exploited at the GeekPwn 2022 hacking competition. A working exploit for the CVE-2022-31705 vulnerability was demonstrated by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2022
Citrix urges customers to update their installs to fix actively exploited zero-day (CVE-2022-27518) in Citrix ADC and Gateway. Citrix urges administrators to apply security updates for a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-27518, in Citrix ADC and Gateway. The vulnerability is actively exploited by China-linked threat actors to gain access to target networks. “We are aware […]
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