Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2024
Over 92,000 Internet-facing D-Link NAS devices can be easily hacked

A researcher disclosed an arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor issue in multiple end-of-life D-Link NAS models. A researcher who goes online with the moniker ‘Netsecfish’ disclosed a new arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor flaw, tracked as , tracked as CVE-2024-3273, that impacts multiple end-of-life D-Link Network Attached Storage (NAS) device models. The flaw affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2024
Magento flaw exploited to deploy persistent backdoor hidden in XML

Threat actors are exploiting critical Magento vulnerability CVE-2024-20720 to install a persistent backdoor on e-stores. Sansec researchers observed threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed Magento vulnerability CVE-2024-20720 to deploy a persistent backdoor on e-stores. The vulnerability CVE-2024-20720 (CVSS score of 9.1) is an OS Command (‘OS Command Injection’) vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2024
Cyberattack disrupted services at Omni Hotels & Resorts

US hotel chain Omni Hotels & Resorts suffered a cyber attack that forced the company to shut down its systems. A cyberattack hit Omni Hotels & Resorts disrupting its services and forcing the company to shut down its systems. The hotel chain did not share details about the attack, however, the effects reported in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2024
HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood technique can be exploited in DoS attacks

HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood: Researchers warn of a new HTTP/2 vulnerability that can be exploited to conduct powerful denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. HTTP messages can contain named fields in both header and trailer sections. CERT/CC experts explained that both header and trailer fields are serialized as field blocks in HTTP/2 to transmit them in multiple fragments to […]

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 […]