Security

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2022
Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022

The Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2022 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from March to June, Q2, 2022. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-InformĂĄtica. This feed is based on automatic searches and is supported by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2022
CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds CVE-2022-26925 Windows LSA flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. In May the US CISA removed the CVE-2022-26925 Windows LSA vulnerability from its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog due to Active Directory (AD) certificate authentication problems observed after the installation of Microsoft’s May 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates. “CISA […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2022
Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities

Jenkins security team disclosed tens of flaws affecting 29 plugins for the Jenkins automation server, most of them are yet to be patched. Jenkins is the most popular open-source automation server, it is maintained by CloudBees and the Jenkins community. The automation server supports developers build, test and deploy their applications, it has hundreds of thousands […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 372 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. The role of Social Media in modern society – Social Media Day 22 interview Experts shared PoC exploit code for RCE in Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit Plus tool A ransomware attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2022
Half of actively exploited zero-day issues in H1 2022 are variants of previous flaws

Google Project Zero states that in H1 2022 at least half of zero-day issues exploited in attacks were related to not properly fixed old flaws. Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone published a blog post that resumes her speech at the FIRST conference in June 2022, the presentation is titled “0-day In-the-Wild Exploitation in 2022
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Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2022
Mitre shared 2022 CWE Top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses

The MITRE organization published the 2022 CWE Top 25 most dangerous software weaknesses. The MITRE shared the list of the 2022 top 25 most common and dangerous weaknesses, it could help organizations to assess internal infrastructure and determine their surface of attack. The presence of these vulnerabilities within the infrastructure of an organization could potentially expose it to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2022
NON-STATE ACTORS IN THE CYBERSPACE: AN ATTEMPT TO A TAXONOMIC CLASSIFICATION, ROLE, IMPACT AND RELATIONS WITH A STATE’S SOCIOECONOMIC STRUCTURE

This paper provides a taxonomic classification of non-state actors in the cyberspace, analyzing their role and impact on a state’s socioeconomic structure Cyber Non-State Actors (CNSA) are key figures in our globalized world: their operations could have a significant impact on international affairs, politics, and on the economy, as much as states do. Non-state actors […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2022
Latest OpenSSL version is affected by a remote memory corruption flaw

Expert discovered a remote memory-corruption vulnerability affecting the latest version of the OpenSSL library. Security expert Guido Vranken discovered a remote memory-corruption vulnerability in the recently released OpenSSL version 3.0.4. The library was released on June 21, 2022, and affects x64 systems with the AVX-512 instruction set. “OpenSSL version 3.0.4, released on June 21th 2022, is susceptible to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 28, 2022
Two critical flaws affect CODESYS ICS Automation Software

CODESYS addressed 11 security flaws in the ICS Automation Software that could lead to information disclosure and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. CODESYS has released security patches to fix eleven 11 vulnerabilities in its ICS Automation Software. CoDeSys is a development environment for programming controller applications according to the international industrial standard IEC 61131-3. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 26, 2022
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. A Russian hacking group may be responsible for a cyber attack against a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas that led to its explosion on June 8. The explosion took place at […]