Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2024
Jackson County, Missouri, discloses a ransomware attack

Jackson County, Missouri, confirmed that a ransomware attack has disrupted several county services. A ransomware attack disrupted several services of the Jackson County, Missouri. The County Executive Frank White, Jr. declared a state of emergency. “Jackson County has confirmed a ransomware attack was responsible for the disruption of several county services today.” reads the statement […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2024
Google addressed another Chrome zero-day exploited at Pwn2Own in March

Google fixed another Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited during the Pwn2Own hacking competition in March. Google has addressed another zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser, tracked as CVE-2024-3159, that was exploited during the Pwn2Own hacking competition in March, 2024. The vulnerability CVE-2024-3159 is an out of bounds memory access in V8 JavaScript engine. The flaw was demonstrated […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2024
XSS flaw in WordPress WP-Members Plugin can lead to script injection

A cross-site scripting vulnerability (XXS) in the WordPress WP-Members Membership plugin can lead to malicious script injection. Researchers from Defiant’s Wordfence research team disclosed a cross-site scripting vulnerability (XXS) in the WordPress WP-Members Membership plugin that can lead to malicious script injection. The Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was reported to Wordfence by the WordPress […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2024
Binarly released the free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor

Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund discovered a backdoor issue in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. The vulnerability was tracked as CVE-2024-3094 and received a CVSS score of 10. Red Hat urges users to immediately stop using […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2024
AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million customers

AT&T confirmed that a data breach impacted 73 million current and former customers after its data were leaked on a cybercrime forum. In March 2024, more than 70,000,000 records from an unspecified division of AT&T were leaked onto Breached forum, vx-underground researchers reported. The researchers confirmed that the leaked data is legitimate, however, it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2024
Cisco warns of password-spraying attacks targeting Secure Firewall devices

Cisco warns customers of password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services of Cisco Secure Firewall devices. Cisco is warning customers of password-spraying attacks that have been targeting Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) services configured on Cisco Secure Firewall devices. The company published a document containing recommendations against password spray attacks aimed at Remote […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2024
Google: China dominates government exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and its subsidiary Mandiant reported that in 2023 97 zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited in attacks, while in 2022 the actively exploited zero-day flaws were 62. In 2023, Google (TAG) and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2024
Google addressed 2 Chrome zero-days demonstrated at Pwn2Own 2024

Google addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser that have been demonstrated during the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024. Google addressed several vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser this week, including two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-2886 and CVE-2024-2887, which were demonstrated during the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition. The high-severity vulnerability CVE-2024-2886 is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2024
CISA adds Microsoft SharePoint bug disclosed at Pwn2Own to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability disclosed at the 2023 Pwn2Own to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE-2023-24955 Microsoft SharePoint Server Code Injection Vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Microsoft addressed the remote code execution flaw in SharePoint Server, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2024
Finnish police linked APT31 to the 2021 parliament attack

The Finnish Police attributed the attack against the parliament that occurred in March 2021 to the China-linked group APT31. The Finnish Police attributed the March 2021 attack on the parliament to the China-linked group APT31. The Finnish authorities investigated multiple offenses, including aggravated espionage, aggravated unlawful access to an information system, and aggravated violation of […]