Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2021
A researcher received a $50,000 bug bounty by Microsoft for having reported a vulnerability that could’ve allowed to hijack any account. Microsoft has awarded the security researcher Laxman Muthiyah $50,000 for reporting a vulnerability that could have allowed anyone to hijack users’ accounts without consent. According to the expert, the vulnerability only impacts consumer accounts. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2021
The Perl.com domain was hijacked in January, but a senior editor at the site revealed that the hackers took control of the domain in September 2020. The Perl.com domain was hijacked in January 2021, but according to Brian Foy, senior editor of Perl.com, the attack took place months before, in September 2020. Attackers have taken over the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2021
Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates for all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that fix four zero-day flaws. Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. The IT giant reported that at least one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2021
The popular jailbreaking tool called “unc0ver” now supports iOS 14.3 and earlier releases, and is able to unlock almost every iPhone device. Pwn20wnd, the author of the jailbreaking tool “unc0ver,” has updated their software to support iOS 14.3 and earlier releases. The last release of the jailbreaking tool, unc0ver v6.0.0, now includes the exploit code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2021
French multinational dairy products corporation Lactalis discloses cyberattack, but claimed that had no evidence of a data breach. France-based dairy giant Lactalis announced that it was hit by a cyber attack, but claimed that it had found no evidence of a data breach. Lactalis employs more than 80,000 people worldwide, at more than 230 production […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2021
The Javascript-based infection framework for the Gootkit RAT was enhanced to deliver a wider variety of malware, including ransomware. Experts from Sophos documented the evolution of the âGootloader,â the framework used for delivering the Gootkit RAT banking Trojan. The framework was improved to deploy a wider range of malware, including ransomware payloads. “In recent years, almost […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2021
The New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia suffered a new cyber heist while it is in liquidation due to a 2019 security breach. In 2019, the New Zealand-based cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia discloses a cyber attack that took place on January 14th. At the time of the first attack, the threat actors stole approximately USD 30 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2021
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability could be exploited by remote attackers to Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs). A critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22681, can be exploited by remote attackers to compromise programmable logic controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Rockwell Automation. The vulnerability was independently reported to Rockwell by researchers at the Soonchunhyang University […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2021
The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks. Crooks conduct SIM swapping attacks to take control of victims’ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2021
Microsoft announced the release of open-source CodeQL queries that it experts used during its investigation into the SolarWinds supply-chain attack Microsoft has announced the availability of open-source CodeQL queries that the IT giant used during its investigation into the SolarWinds attack. In early 2021, the US agencies FBI, CISA, ODNI, and the NSA released a joint […]
