Security

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2022
NUVOLA: the new Cloud Security tool

nuvola is the new open-source cloud security tool to address the privilege escalation in cloud environments. nuvola is the new open source security tool made by the Italian cyber security researcher Edoardo Rosa (@_notdodo_), Security Engineer at Prima Assicurazioni. The tool was released during the RomHack 2022 security conference in Rome. The tool helps the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2022
WhatsApp fixed critical and high severy vulnerabilities

WhatsApp has addressed two severe Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities affecting the mobile version of the software. WhatsApp has published three security advisories for 2022, two of which are related to CVE-2021-24042 and CVE-2021-24043 vulnerabilities discovered in January and February, and the third one is related to CVE-2022-36934 and CVE-2022-27492 fixed by the company in September. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2022
Attackers impersonate CircleCI platform to compromise GitHub accounts

Threat actors target GitHub users to steal credentials and two-factor authentication (2FA) codes by impersonating the CircleCI DevOps platform. GitHub is warning of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting its users to steal credentials and two-factor authentication (2FA) codes by impersonating the CircleCI DevOps platform. The company learned of the attacks against its users on September […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2022
OpIran: Anonymous declares war on Teheran amid Mahsa Amini’s death

OpIran: Anonymous launched Operation Iran against Teheran due to the ongoing crackdown on dissent after Mahsa Amini’s death. Anonymous launched OpIran against Iran due to the ongoing crackdown on dissent after Mahsa Amini’s death. The protests began after the death of Mahsa Amini from Saqqez in Kurdistan province after her arrest by Iran’s morality police […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2022
ISC fixed high-severity flaws in the BIND DNS software

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) fixed six remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the BIND DNS software. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) this week released security patches to address six remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in BIND DNS software. Four out of six flaws, all denial-of-service (DoS) issue, have been rated as ‘high’ severity. One of the issues, tracked […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2022
London Police arrested a teen suspected to be behind Uber, Rockstar Games breaches

The City of London Police this week announced the arrest of a 17-year-old teenager on suspicion of hacking. Is he the Uber hacker? The City of London Police on Friday announced to have arrested a 17-year-old teenager on suspicion of hacking, however, experts believe the arrest could be linked to the recent security breaches suffered […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2022
Sophos warns of a new actively exploited flaw in Firewall product

Sophos warns that a critical code injection security vulnerability in its Firewall product is actively exploited in the wild. Sophos warns of a critical code injection security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3236, affecting its Firewall product which is being exploited in the wild. The CVE-2022-3236 flaw resides in the User Portal and Webadmin of Sophos Firewall, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2022
CISA adds Zoho ManageEngine flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

CISA added a security flaw in Zoho ManageEngine, tracked as CVE-2022-35405, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a recently disclosed security flaw in Zoho ManageEngine, tracked as CVE-2022-35405 (CVSS score 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2022
AttachMe: a critical flaw affects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

A critical vulnerability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) could be exploited to access the virtual disks of other Oracle customers. Wiz researchers discovered a critical flaw in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that could be exploited by users to access the virtual disks of other Oracle customers. An attacker can trigger the flaw to exfiltrate sensitive […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2022
A 15-Year-Old Unpatched Python bug potentially impacts over 350,000 projects

More than 350,000 open source projects can be potentially affected by a 15-Year-Old unpatched Python vulnerability More than 350,000 open source projects can be potentially affected by an unpatched Python vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2007-4559 (CVSS score: 6.8), that was discovered 15 years ago. The issue is a Directory traversal vulnerability that resides in the ‘extract’ […]