Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2024
A vulnerability impacting the decentralized social network Mastodon can be exploited by threat actors to impersonate and take over any account. A security flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-23832 (CVSS score 9.4), in the decentralized social network Mastodon can be exploited to impersonate and take over any account. The issue is caused by insufficient origin validation in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2024
Albaniaâs Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) announced that it was targeted by a sophisticated cyberattack that affected some of its systems. A sophisticated cyberattack on Wednesday hit Albaniaâs Institute of Statistics (INSTAT). The institute confirmed that the attack affected some of its systems. Albaniaâs Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) promptly activated emergency protocols to respond to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2024
A former software engineer with the U.S. CIA has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for leaking classified documents. Former CIA employee Joshua Adam Schulte has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for passing classified documents to WikiLeaks and for possessing child pornographic material. “Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2024
CISA is ordering federal agencies to disconnect Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure products within 48 hours. For the first time since its establishment, CISA is ordering federal agencies to disconnect all instances of Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure products within 48 hours. The CISA’s emergency directive orders to disconnect all instances […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2024
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple improper authentication bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an Apple improper authentication bug, tracked as CVE-2022-48618, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability can allow an attacker with arbitrary read and write capability to bypass Pointer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2024
Ivanti warns of two new vulnerabilities in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, one of which is actively exploited in the wild. Ivanti is warning of two new high-severity vulnerabilities in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure solutions respectively tracked as CVE-2024-21888Â (CVSS score: 8.8) and CVE-2024-21893Â (CVSS score: 8.2). The software company also warned that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2024
Threat actors are exploiting recently disclosed zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) VPN devices to deliver KrustyLoader. In early January 2024, software firm Ivanti reported that threat actors were exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887) in Connect Secure (ICS) and Policy Secure to remotely execute arbitrary commands on targeted gateways. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Synacktiv published […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2024
Sensitive data and trading activity of over 300K traders leaked online by international fintech firm Direct Trading Technologies. Direct Trading Technologies, an international fintech company, jeopardized over 300K traders by leaking their sensitive data and trading activity, thereby putting them at risk of an account takeover. On October 27th, the Cybernews research team discovered a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2024
Qualys researchers discovered a root access flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-6246, in GNU Library C (glibc) affecting multiple Linux distributions. The Qualys Threat Research Unit discovered four security vulnerabilities in the GNU Library C (glibc), including a heap-based buffer overflow tracked as CVE-2023-6246. GNU C Library (glibc) is a free software library that provides essential system […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2024
Juniper Networks released out-of-band updates to fix high-severity flaws in SRX Series and EX Series that can allow attackers to take over unpatched systems. Juniper Networks has released out-of-band updates to address two high-severity flaws, tracked as CVE-2024-21619 and CVE-2024-21620, in SRX Series and EX Series that could be exploited by a threat actor to take control of susceptible […]
