Security

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2022
Cisco addresses three bugs in Enterprise NFVIS Software

Cisco addresses three flaws impacting its Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) that could allow the compromise of the hosts. Cisco addressed three vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-20777, CVE-2022-20779, and CVE-2022-20780, affecting the Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS) that could be exploited by attackers to take control over the hosts. “Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2022
A couple of 10-Year-Old flaws affect Avast and AVG antivirus

Researcher discovered a couple of high-severity security flaws that affect a driver used by Avast and AVG antivirus solutions. SentinelOne researcher Kasif Dekel discovered two high-severity security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-26522 and CVE-2022-26523, that affect a driver used by Avast and AVG antivirus solutions. The bugs reside in the anti-rootkit kernel driver named aswArPot.sys which […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2022
F5 warns its customers of tens of flaws in its products

Cybersecurity provider F5 released security patches to address tens of vulnerabilities affecting its products. Security and application delivery solutions provider F5 released its security notification to inform customers that it has released security updates from tens of vulnerabilities in its products. The company addressed a total of 43 vulnerabilities, the most severe one is a critical […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2022
China-linked Winnti APT steals intellectual property from companies worldwide

A sophisticated cyberespionage campaign, dubbed Operation CuckooBees, conducted by the China-linked Winnti group remained undetected since at least 2019. Researchers from Cybereason uncovered a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign, dubbed Operation CuckooBees, aimed at stealing intellectual property from the victims. The campaign flew under the radar since at least 2019, it was attributed by the experts to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2022
Experts linked multiple ransomware strains North Korea-backed APT38 group

Researchers from Trellix linked multiple ransomware strains to the North Korea-backed APT38 group. The ransomware was employed in attacks on financial institutions, experts estimated that APT38 (Unit 180 of North Korea’s cyber-army Bureau 121) has stolen at hundreds of million dollars from banks worldwide. APT38 appears to be a North Korea-linked group separate from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2022
A DNS flaw impacts a library used by millions of IoT devices

A vulnerability in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library impacts millions of IoT products. Nozomi Networks warns of a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-05-02, in the domain name system (DNS) component of the uClibc library which is used by a large number of IoT products. The flaw also affects DNS implementation of all versions of the uClibc-ng […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2022
UNC3524 APT uses IP cameras to deploy backdoors and target Exchange

A new APT group, tracked as UNC3524, uses IP cameras to deploy backdoors and steal Microsoft Exchange emails. Mandiant researchers discovered a new APT group, tracked as UNC3524, that heavily targets the emails of employees that focus on corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, and large corporate transactions.  Once gained initial access to the target systems, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2022
Package Analysis dynamic analyzes packages in open-source repositories

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is working on a tool to conduct a dynamic analysis of packages uploaded to popular open-source repositories. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) announced the release of the first version of a new tool, dubbed Package Analysis, to perform dynamic analysis of the packages uploaded to popular open-source repositories. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2022
Car rental company Sixt hit by a cyberattack that caused temporary disruptions

The car rental company Sixt announced it was hit by a cyberattack that is causing temporary business disruptions at customer care centers and selective branches. The car rental company Sixt detected IT anomalies on April 29th, 2022 and immediately activated the incident response procedures. Later, the company confirmed that it was hit by a cyber-attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2022
Group-IB CEO remains in prison

The latest executive order from the Italian ACN agency recommends government agencies to replace Group IB solutions with alternatives as a diversification measure. The latest executive order from the Italian ACN agency advised to replace solutions from Group-IB, a Russian-led cybersecurity firm, on alternatives in the government sector, including 2 other companies – Kaspersky Labs […]