Security

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2021
A vulnerable honeypot exposed online can be compromised in 24 hours

Researchers deployed multiple instances of vulnerable systems and found that 80% of the 320 honeypots were compromised within 24 hours. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks deployed a honeypot infrastructure of 320 nodes to analyze how three actors target exposed services in public clouds. The company set up the honeypots between July 2021 and August 2021 to […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2021
Expert discloses details of flaws in Oracle VirtualBox

A vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox could be potentially exploited to compromise the hypervisor and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. A vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox, tracked as CVE-2021-2442, could be potentially exploited to compromise the hypervisor and trigger a DoS condition. The vulnerability was discovered by Max Van Amerongen from SentinelLabs, it received a CVSS […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2021
Experts warn of RCE flaw in Imunify360 security platform

A flaw in CloudLinux’s Imunify360 security product could have been exploited by an attacker for remote code execution. Cisco’s Talos researchers discovered a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21956, in CloudLinux’s Imunify360 security product. Imunify360 is a security platform for web-hosting servers that allows to implement real-time protection for website and web servers. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2021
Study reveals top 200 most common passwords

The annual study on top-used passwords published by Nordpass revealed that we are still using weak credentials that expose us to serious risks. Nordpass has published its annual report, titled “Top 200 most common passwords,” on the use of passwords. The report shows that we are still using weak passwords. The list of passwords was […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 20, 2021
Tor Project calls to bring more than 200 obfs4 bridges online by December

The Tor Project offers rewards to users who will set up a Tor server after observing a significant drop in the number of Tor relays and Tor bridges. Bridges are private Tor relays that allow users to circumvent censorship, their role is essential in countries, that block Tor connections such as China, Belarus, Iran, and Kazakhstan. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2021
Android banking Trojan BrazKing is back with significant evasion improvements

The BrazKing Android banking trojan is back with significant improvements and dynamic banking overlays to avoid detection. Researchers from IBM spotted a new version of the BrazKing Android banking trojan that pull fake overlay screens from the command and control (C2) server in real-time. In the previous version, BrazKing abused the accessibility service to detect which app […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2021
Microsoft addresses a high-severity vulnerability in Azure AD

Microsoft recently addressed an information disclosure vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-42306, affecting Azure AD. Microsoft has recently addressed an information disclosure vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-42306, affecting Azure AD. “An information disclosure vulnerability manifests when a user or an application uploads unprotected private key data as part of an authentication certificate keyCredential  on an Azure AD Application or Service […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2021
Zero-Day flaw in FatPipe products actively exploited, FBI warns

The FBI is warning of a zero-day vulnerability in FatPipe products that has been under active exploitation since at least May 2021. FatPipe Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) products provide solutions for an easy migration to Hybrid WAN. FatPipe delivers companies the ability to centrally manage their wide area network, manage branch office configurations, and deploy […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2021
Netgear fixes code execution flaw in many SOHO devices

Netgear addressed a code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-34991, in its small office/home office (SOHO) devices. Netgear addressed a pre-authentication buffer overflow issue in its small office/home office (SOHO) devices that can be exploited by an attacker on the local area network (LAN) to execute code remotely with root privileges. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-34991 […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2021
CISA releases incident response plans for federal agencies

CISA released the Federal Government Cybersecurity Incident Response Playbooks for the federal civilian executive branch agencies. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released new cybersecurity response plans for federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agencies (” Federal Government Cybersecurity Incident and Vulnerability Response Playbooks“). The documents aim at developing a standard set of operational procedures […]