Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2024
Microsoft addressed a zero-day vulnerability actively exploited by the North-Korea-linked Lazarus APT group. Microsoft has addressed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 (CVSS score: 7.8), which has been exploited by the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a privilege escalation issue that resides in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2024
New cybercrime group Mad Liberator is targeting AnyDesk users and runs a fake Microsoft Windows update screen to conceal data exfiltrating. The Sophos X-Ops Incident Response team warned that a new ransomware group called Mad Liberator is exploiting the remote-access application Anydesk for their attacks. The group was also spotted running a fake Microsoft Windows update […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2024
Boffins demonstrated the vulnerability of fingerprint recognition systems to dictionary attacks using ‘MasterPrints, ‘which are fingerprints that can match multiple other prints. A team of researchers from US universities demonstrated how to deceive fingerprint recognition systems through dictionary attacks using ‘MasterPrints,’ which are fingerprints that can match multiple other prints. The experts introduced DeepMasterPrints, which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2024
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Large-scale extortion campaign targets publicly accessible environment variable files (.env) OpenAI dismantled an Iranian influence operation targeting the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2024
A large-scale extortion campaign compromised multiple organizations by exploiting publicly accessible environment variable files (.env). Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers uncovered a large-scale extortion campaign that successfully compromised and extorted multiple victim organizations by leveraging exposed environment variable files (.env files). The exposed files contained sensitive variables such as credentials belonging to various applications. This extortion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 17, 2024
FortiGuard Labs researchers uncovered an ongoing ValleyRAT malware campaign that is targeting Chinese-speaking users. ValleyRAT is a multi-stage malware that supports multiple techniques to monitor and control compromised devices. The malicious code is also used to deploy arbitrary plugins on the infected systems. A noteworthy characteristic of ValleyRAT malware is the heavy usage of shellcode […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2024
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SolarWinds Web Help Desk deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28986 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week SolarWinds fixed the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2024
Many Google Pixel devices shipped since September 2017 have included a vulnerable app that could be exploited for malicious purposes. Many Google Pixel devices shipped since September 2017 have included dormant software that could be exploited by attackers to compromise them. Researchers form mobile security firm iVerify reported that the issue stems from a pre-installed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2024
Microsoft addressed a critical zero-click Windows remote code execution (RCE) in the TCP/IP stack that impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled. Microsoft urges customers to fix a critical TCP/IP remote code execution (RCE) flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-38063 (CVSS score 9.8), in the TCP/IP stack. The vulnerability impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled (IPv6 is enabled by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2024
Google disrupted a hacking campaign carried out by the Iran-linked APT group APT42 targeting the US presidential election. Google announced that it disrupted a hacking campaign carried out by Iran-linked group APT42 (Calanque, UNC788) that targeted the personal email accounts of individuals associated with the US elections. APT42 focuses on highly targeted spear-phishing and social […]
Laws and regulations / December 23, 2024
