Security

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2021
US CISA orders federal agencies to fix Log4Shell by December 24th

US CISA ordered federal agencies to address the critical Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library by December 24th, 2021. US CISA ordered federal agencies to address the critical Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library by December 24th, 2021. The order aims at preventing threat actors could exploit the vulnerability in attacks against government systems. The CVE-2021-44228 flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2021
Google fixed the 17th zero-day in Chrome since the start of the year

Google has released Chrome 96.0.4664.110 to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-4102, exploited in the wild. Google released security updates to address five vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser, including a high-severity zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-4102, exploited in the wild. The CVE-2021-4102 flaw is a use-after-free issue in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, its exploitation could lead to the execution […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2021
CISA adds Log4Shell Log4j flaw to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The U.S. CISA added 13 new vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including Apache Log4Shell Log4j and Fortinet FortiOS issues. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 13 new vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including recently disclosed Apache Log4Shell Log4j and Fortinet FortiOS flaws. Below is the list of new vulnerabilities added […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2021
Western Digital SanDisk SecureAccess flaws allow brute force and dictionary attacks

Vulnerabilities in the Western Digital SanDisk SecureAccess can be exploited to access user data through brute force and dictionary attacks. Western Digital has released updates for its SanDisk SecureAccess software to fix multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited to access user data by carrying out brute force and dictionary attacks. The SanDisk SecureAccess software, now […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 10, 2021
1.6 million WordPress sites targeted in the last couple of days

Wordfence experts detected a massive wave of attacks in the last couple of days that targeted over 1.6 million WordPress sites. Wordfence researchers spotted a massive wave of attacks in the days that are targeting over 1.6 million WordPress sites from 16,000 IPs. “Today, on December 9, 2021, our Threat Intelligence team noticed a drastic uptick in attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 09, 2021
Mozilla fixed high-severity bugs in Firefox and Thunderbird mail client

Mozilla released security updates for the Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail client to address multiple vulnerabilities. Mozilla released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser and Thunderbird mail client. The company addressed 13 vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser with the release of Firefox 95, including six high-severity flaws. The most severe of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2021
SonicWall strongly urges customers to apply patches to SMA 100 devices

SonicWall strongly urges customers using SMA 100 series appliances to install security patches that address multiple security flaws, some of them rated as critical. Security vendor SonicWall urges customers using SMA 100 series appliances to apply security patches that address multiple security vulnerabilities, some of which have been rated as critical. “SonicWall has verified and […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2021
Hundreds of vulnerabilities in common Wi-Fi routers affect millions of users

Researchers discovered a total of 226 potential security vulnerabilities in nine Wi-Fi popular routers from known manufacturers. Security researchers and editors with the German IT magazine CHIP have discovered 226 potential security defects in nine Wi-Fi routers from known manufacturers (Asus, AVM, D-Link, Netgear, Edimax, TP-Link, Synology, and Linksys). Millions of users are potentially impacted […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2021
CISA warns of vulnerabilities in Hitachi Energy products

CISA has released six advisories to warn organizations about security vulnerabilities affecting Hitachi Energy products The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published six advisories to inform organizations about the availability of security patches and notifications for vulnerabilities impacting Hitachi Energy products. CISA’s advisories are related to RTU500 series bidirectional communication interface, Relion protection and control […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2021
Threat actors stole $120 M in crypto from BadgerDAO DeFi platform

Threat actors stole $120 million in cryptocurrencies from multiple wallets connected to the decentralized finance platform BadgerDAO. Threat actors this week have hacked the decentralized finance platform BadgerDAO and have stolen $120.3 million in crypto funds, blockchain security firm PeckShield reported. Most of the stolen funds, over $117 million, were Bitcoin, while the rest of […]