Security

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2021
ShinyHunters group claims to have data of 70M AT&T customers

Threat actors claim to have a database containing private information on roughly 70 million AT&T customers, but the company denies any security breach. ShinyHunters group claims to have a database containing private information on roughly 70 million AT&T customers, but the company denies that they have been stolen from its systems. ShinyHunters is a popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2021
CVE-2021-3711 in OpenSSL can allow to change an application’s behavior

The OpenSSL Project patched a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3711, that can allow an attacker to change an application’s behavior or cause the app to crash. The OpenSSL Project released the OpenSSL 1.1.1l version that addresses a high-severity buffer overflow flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-3711, that could allow an attacker to change an application’s behavior or […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2021
New zero-click exploit used to target Bahraini activists’ iPhones with NSO spyware

Citizen Lab uncovered a new zero-click iMessage exploit that was used to deploy the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on devices belonging to Bahraini activists. Researchers from Citizen Lab spotted a zero-click iMessage exploit that was used to deploy NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on Bahraini activists’ devices. The iPhones of nine activists, including members of the Bahrain Center for Human […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2021
CISA recommends immediately patch Exchange ProxyShell flaws

US CISA issued an urgent alert to warn admins to address ProxyShell vulnerabilities on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn admins to address actively exploited ProxyShell vulnerabilities on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers. ProxyShell is the name of three vulnerabilities that could be chained by an unauthenticated […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2021
Google discloses unpatched Microsoft WFP Default Rules AppContainer Bypass EoP

Google disclosed the details of a Windows ​​AppContainer vulnerability because Microsoft initially had no plans to fix it. Google Project Zero experts disclosed the details of a Windows ​​AppContainer flaw after Microsoft announced it had no plans to fix it. The team focused its analysis on Windows Firewall and AppContainer that were designed by Microsoft […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2021
US CISA releases guidance on how to prevent ransomware data breaches

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released guidance on how to prevent data breaches resulting from ransomware attacks. Most of the recent ransomware attack resulted in data breaches for the victims, threat actors implemented a double-extortion schema threatening the victims to data stolen before encrypting them on compromised systems. Over the past several […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) fixes High-Severity DoS flaw in BIND DNS Software

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) addressed a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) flaw (CVE-2021-25218) affecting the BIND DNS software. The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates to address a high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-25218, that affects its BIND DNS software. The vulnerability affects only BIND 9 releases 9.16.19, 9.17.16, and release 9.16.19-S1 of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
Cisco warns of Server Name Identification data exfiltration flaw in multiple products

Unauthenticated attackers could bypass TLS inspection filtering solution in multiple products to exfiltrate data from previously compromised servers, Cisco warns. Cisco warns of a vulnerability in Server Name Identification (SNI) request filtering that affects multiple products (Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA), Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD), and the Snort detection engine) that could be exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2021
637 flaws in industrial control system (ICS) products were published in H1 2021

During the first half of 2021, 637 vulnerabilities affecting industrial control system (ICS) products were published, affecting products from 76 vendors. Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty published its third Biannual ICS Risk & Vulnerability Report that analyzes the vulnerability landscape relevant to leading automation products used across the ICS domain. The company reported that during the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2021
Cisco will not patch critical flaw CVE-2021-34730 in EoF routers

Cisco has no plan to fix a critical code execution flaw (CVE-2021-34730) in small business RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W routers Cisco has no plan to address a critical code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-34730, that affects small business RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W routers. The CVE-2021-34730 flaw resides in the Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) service […]