Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2020
Zyxel addresses Zero-Day vulnerability in NAS devices

Tech vendor Zyxel addresses a critical vulnerability in several network-attached storage (NAS) devices that is already being exploited in the wild. Zyxel has released security patches to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-9054, that affects several NAS devices. The flaw can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker, it resides in the weblogin.cgi CGI executable […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2020
Experts discovered a new critical OpenSMTPD RCE flaw exploited in the wild

Experts discovered a new critical remote code execution vulnerability in the OpenSMTPD that could allow hacking email servers running BSD or Linux. A new critical remote code execution vulnerability was discovered in the OpenSMTPD that could be exploited by attackers to take complete control over email servers running BSD or Linux operating systems. OpenSMTPD is an […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2020
Google fixes Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in the wild

Google has released Chrome 80 update that addresses three high-severity vulnerabilities, one of them has been exploited in the wild. Google has released Chrome 80 update (version 80.0.3987.122) that addresses three high-severity vulnerabilities, including a zero-day issue (CVE-2020-6418) that has been exploited in the wild. The CVE-2020-6418 vulnerability is a type confusion issue that affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2020
Hacking campaign targets sites running popular Duplicator WordPress plugin

Security experts are warning of a new wave of attacks targeting a zero-day vulnerability in the popular Duplicator WordPress Plugin. Last week the development team behind the popular Duplicator WordPress plugin, the Snap Creek, addressed a zero-day vulnerability that affected at least 1 million websites. Now researchers at security firm WordFence are warning of a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2020
Slickwraps discloses data leak that impacted 850,000 user accounts

Slickwraps has disclosed a data breach that impacted over 850,000 user accounts, data were accidentally exposed due to security vulnerabilities. Slickwraps is an online store that offers for sale skins mobile devices, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and gaming consoles. The data leak was disclosed last week, on February 21 the company that customer records were accidentally exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2020
FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report: 500+ new Malware strains in 2019

FireEye’s report revealed that the incident response division Mandiant observed more than 500 new malware families in 2019. According to the FireEye Mandiant M-Trends 2020 report, FireEye analyzed 1.1 million malware samples per day in 2019 and identified 1,268 malware families. The most worrisome figure is related to the number of previously unseen malware families […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2020
ObliqueRAT, a new malware employed in attacks on government targets in Southeast Asia

Cisco Talos researchers discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that was employed targeted attacks against organizations in Southeast Asia. Experts from Cisco Talos discovered a new malware, tracked as ObliqueRAT, that appears a custom malware developed by a threat actor focused on government and diplomatic targets.  The malware was employed in targeted attacks against […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2020
VMware addresses serious flaws in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter

VMware has addressed serious vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations for Horizon Adapter, including remote code execution and authentication bypass flaws. VMware vRealize Operations is a software product that provides operations management across physical, virtual and cloud environments, it supports environments based on vSphere, Hyper-V or Amazon Web Services. Horizon Adapter instances created on VMware vRealize Operations Manager […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2020
Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments: Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later

Exclusive: Pakistan and India to armaments. Researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab gathered intelligence on the return of Operation Transparent Tribe is back 4 years later Introduction The Operation Transparent Tribe was first spotted by Proofpoint Researchers in Feb 2016, in a series of espionages operations against Indian diplomats and military personnel in some embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2020
DOD DISA US agency discloses a security breach

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the DoD agency that is in charge of the security of IT and telecommunications for the White House and military troops has suffered a cyber […]