Security

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2022
Horde Webmail Software is affected by a dangerous bug since 2012

Experts found a nine-year-old unpatched flaw in the Horde Webmail software that could allow access to email accounts. A feature in the Horde Webmail is affected by a nine-year-old unpatched security vulnerability that could be abused to gain complete access to email accounts simply by previewing an attachment. Horde Webmail is a free, enterprise-ready, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2022
A flaw in the encryption algorithm of Hive Ransomware allows retrieving encrypted files

Researchers discovered a flaw in the encryption algorithm used by Hive ransomware that allowed them to decrypt data. Researchers discovered a flaw in the encryption algorithm used by Hive ransomware that allowed them to decrypt data without knowing the private key used by the gang to encrypt files. The Hive ransomware operation has been active […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2022
Threat Report Portugal: Q4 2021

The Threat Report Portugal: Q4 2021 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from October to December, Q4, of 2021. 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 also supported […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2022
CISA compiled a list of free cybersecurity tools and services

The U.S. CISA has created a list of free cybersecurity tools and services that can help organizations increase their resilience. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced this week that it has compiled a list of free cybersecurity tools and services that can help organizations to reduce cybersecurity risk and increase resilience. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2022
Google Privacy Sandbox promises to protect user privacy online

Google introduces Privacy Sandbox on Android aimed at leading to more private advertising solutions for mobile users. Google announced Privacy Sandbox on Android to limit user data sharing and prevent the use of cross-app identifiers. The company states that the Privacy Sandbox technologies are still in development. “Privacy Sandbox on Android will strengthen privacy, while […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2022
Researchers created a PoC exploit for recently disclosed critical Magento CVE-2022-24086 bug

Researchers developed an exploit code for CVE-2022-24086 vulnerability affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source. Positive Technologies researchers have created a working PoC exploit for the recently patched CVE-2022-24086 vulnerability affecting its Commerce and Magento Open Source products. An attacker could use the exploit to achieve remote code execution from an unauthenticated user. This week, Adobe rolled […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2022
Specially crafted emails could crash Cisco ESA devices

Cisco warns of a DoS issue affecting its Email Security Appliance (ESA) product that could be exploited using specially crafted emails. Cisco ESA products are affected by a DoS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20653, that resides in the DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) email verification component of Cisco AsyncOS Software for ESA. A remote, unauthenticated attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2022
European Data Protection Supervisor call for bans on surveillance spyware like Pegasus

The European Data Protection Supervisor authority called for a ban on the development and the use of Pegasus-like commercial spyware. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) authority this week called for a ban on the development and the use of surveillance software like the Pegasus spyware in the EU. Pegasus is a surveillance malware developed by […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2022
Russia-linked threat actors breached US cleared defense contractors (CDCs)

Russia-linked threat actors have breached the network of U.S. cleared defense contractors (CDCs) since at least January 2020. According to a joint alert published by the FBI, NSA, and CISA, Russia-linked threat actors conducted a cyber espionage campaign aimed at US cleared defense contractors to steal sensitive info related to intelligence programs and capabilities. CDCs […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2022
Experts disclose details of Apache Cassandra DB RCE

Researchers disclose a now-patched remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Apache Cassandra database software. JFrog researchers publicly disclosed details of a now-patched high-severity security vulnerability (CVE-2021-44521) in Apache Cassandra database software that could be exploited by remote attackers to achieve code execution on affected installations. Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL distributed database used […]