Security

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. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2022
Zurich chief warned that cyber attacks will become uninsurable

The chief executive of insurance giant Zurich warns that cyber attacks, rather than natural catastrophes, will become uninsurable. Mario Greco, chief executive of insurer giant Zurich, has warned that cyber attacks will become soon “uninsurable.” The attacks are becoming even more frequent and the damage they are causing continues to grow. “What will become uninsurable […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2022
Facebook (Meta) to settle Cambridge Analytica data leak for $725M

Facebook (Meta) has agreed to pay $725 million to settle the class-action lawsuit filed in 2018 over the Cambridge Analytica data leak. Facebook (Meta) has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018 over the Cambridge Analytica data leak. According to Reuters, the lawyers for the plaintiffs defined the proposed […]