Security

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2023
Fortinet fixed multiple command injection bugs in FortiADC and FortiTester

Fortinet addressed multiple vulnerabilities impacting its products and warned of a high-severity command injection flaw in FortiADC. Cybersecurity vendor Fortinet addressed several vulnerabilities impacting its products. The compaby also warned customers of a high-severity command injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-39947 (CVSS score of 8.6), affecting the Application Delivery Controller FortiADC. The CVE-2022-39947 flaw is an […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2023
US. rail and locomotive company Wabtec hit with Lockbit ransomware

US. rail and locomotive company Wabtec Corporation disclosed a data breach after it was hit with Lockbit ransomware attack. Wabtec Corporation is an American company formed by the merger of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company (WABCO) and MotivePower Industries Corporation in 1999. It manufactures products for locomotives, freight cars and passenger transit vehicles, and builds new locomotives up to 6,000 horsepower. The company employs […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2023
Synology fixes multiple critical vulnerabilities in its routers

Synology fixed several critical flaws in its routers, including flaws likely demonstrated at the Pwn2Own 2022 hacking contest. Taiwanese NAS maker Synology published two new critical advisories in December. The first advisory is related to the most severe vulnerability addressed by the company, which is a critical out-of-bounds write issue, tracked as CVE-2022-43931 (CVSS3 Base Score10). […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2023
Does Volvo Cars suffer a new data breach?

A post published on a popular hacking forum claims Volvo Cars has suffered a new data breach, alleging stolen data available for sale. French cybersecurity Anis Haboubi yesterday first noticed that a threat actor was attempting to sell data allegedly stolen from Volvo Cars on a popular hacking forum. A member of the forum, who […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2023
SecurityAffairs Top 10 cybersecurity posts of 2022

These are the most-read cybersecurity articles that have been published by SecurtiyAffairs in 2022. 1 – Russia-linked actors may be behind an explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas Russian threat actors may be behind the explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas, the incident took place on June 8. 2 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2023
PyTorch compromised to demonstrate dependency confusion attack on Python environments

Threat actors compromised the PyTorch Machine Learning Framework by adding a malicious dependency. The maintainers of the PyTorch package warn of a supply chain attack. Users who have installed PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between December 25, 2022 and December 30, 2022, to uninstall it and use the latest binaries. “If you installed PyTorch-nightly on […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2022
Personal health information of 42M Americans leaked between 2016 and 2021

Crooks have had access to the medical records of 42 million Americans since 2016 as the number of hacks on healthcare organizations doubled. Medical records of 42 million Americans are being sold on the dark web since 2016, this information comes from cyberattacks on healthcare providers. Researchers from Jama Network analyzed trends in ransomware attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2022
NETGEAR fixes a severe bug in its routers. Patch it asap!

Netgear addressed a high-severity bug affecting multiple WiFi router models, including Wireless AC Nighthawk, Wireless AX Nighthawk (WiFi 6), and Wireless AC. Netgear fixed a bug affecting multiple WiFi router models, including Wireless AC Nighthawk, Wireless AX Nighthawk (WiFi 6), and Wireless AC router models. The vendor only said that the flaw is a pre-authentication buffer overflow vulnerability and urged […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2022
CISA adds JasperReports vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

US CISA added TIBCO Software’s JasperReports vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. US CISA added TIBCO Software’s JasperReports vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2018-5430 (CVSS score: 7.7) and CVE-2018-18809 (CVSS score: 9.9), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,. TIBCO JasperReports is an open-source Java reporting tool for creating and managing reports and dashboards. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2022
LCMHS hospital suffered a Ransomware attack at Louisiana hospital that impacted 270,000 patients

The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) suffered a ransomware attack that impacted 270,000 patients. The Lake Charles Memorial Health System (LCMHS) disclosed a data breach that affected almost 270,000 patients at its medical centers. The Lake Charles Memorial Health System is the largest not-for-profit community healthcare system in Southwest Louisiana. LCMHS reported the incident to the secretary of the U.S. […]