Security

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2023
Microsoft shares guidance for investigating attacks exploiting CVE-2023-23397

Microsoft is warning of cyber attacks exploiting a recently patched Outlook vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-23397 (CVSS score: 9.8). Microsoft published guidance for investigating attacks exploiting recently patched Outlook vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-23397. The flaw is a Microsoft Outlook spoofing vulnerability that can lead to an authentication bypass. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit the flaw to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2023
Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 awarded $1,035,000 and a Tesla for 27 0-days

On the third day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 hacking contest, the organization awarded $185,000 for 10 zero-day exploits. Pwn2Own Vancouver 2023 is ended, contestants disclosed 27 unique zero-days and the organization awarded a total of $1,035,000 and a Tesla Model 3. The team Synacktiv (@Synacktiv) (Benoist-Vanderbeken, David Berard, Vincent Dehors, Tanguy Dubroca, Thomas Bouzerar, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2023
CISA announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications initiative

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the Pre-Ransomware Notifications service to help organizations stop ransomware attacks before damage occurs. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced a new Pre-Ransomware Notification initiative that aims at alerting organizations of early-stage ransomware attacks. The principle behind the initiative is simple, ransomware actors initially gain access […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2023
Critical flaw in WooCommerce Payments plugin allows site takeover

A patch for a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress has been released for over 500,000 websites. On March 23, 2023, researchers from Wordfence observed that the “WooCommerce Payments – Fully Integrated Solution Built and Supported by Woo” plugin had been updated to version 5.6.2. The WooCommerce Payments plugin is a fully integrated […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2023
Cisco fixed multiple severe vulnerabilities in its IOS and IOS XE software

Cisco addressed tens of vulnerabilities in its IOS and IOS XE software, six of these issues have been rated ‘high severity’. Cisco published the March 2023 Semiannual IOS and IOS XE Software Security Advisory that addresses several vulnerabilities in IOS and IOS XE software. Below is the list of flaws addressed by the IT giant […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2023
Lionsgate streaming platform with 37m subscribers leaks user data

Entertainment industry giant Lionsgate leaked users’ IP addresses and information about what content they watch on its movie-streaming platform, according to research from Cybernews. Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/lionsgate-data-leak/ During their investigation, our researchers discovered that the video-streaming platform Lionsgate Play had leaked user data through an open ElasticSearch instance. The Cybernews research team discovered an […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2023
ENISA: Ransomware became a prominent threat against the transport sector in 2022

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) published its first cyber threat landscape report for the transport sector. A new report published by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) analyzes threats and incidents in the transport sector. The report covers incidents in aviation, maritime, railway, and road transport industries between January 2021 and October […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2023
BreachForums current Admin Baphomet shuts down BreachForums

Baphomet, the current administrator of BreachForums, announced that the popular hacking forum has been officially taken down. U.S. law enforcement arrested last week a US man that goes online with the moniker “Pompompurin,” the US citizen is accused to be the owner of the popular hacking forum BreachForums.  The news of the arrest was first reported by Bloomberg, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2023
2022 Zero-Day exploitation continues at a worrisome pace

Experts warn that 55 zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited in attacks carried out by ransomware and cyberespionage groups in 2022. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant reported that ransomware and cyberespionage groups exploited 55 zero-day flaws in attacks in the wild. Most of the zero-day vulnerabilities were in software from Microsoft, Google, and Apple. The figures show a decrease […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2023
Lowe’s Market chain leaves client data up for grabs

A misconfiguration on a website owned by the US-based Lowe’s Market grocery store chain could have allowed threat actors to gain control of its systems. On February 7, the Cybernews research team discovered a misconfiguration on the Lowe’s Market website. The supermarket chain’s website was leaking a treasure trove of private credentials, which left the […]