Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2021
Experts at the NetBlocks Internet Observatory observed this week a temporary disruption of internet service in Russia due to new restrictions. On Wednesday 10 March 2021, researchers from Network data from the NetBlocks Internet Observatory observed the disruption of internet service provided by the Russian operator Rostelecom. The partial disruption of the service coincided with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2021
Security firm F5 announced the availability of patches for seven vulnerabilities in BIG-IP, four of which have been rated as “critical” severity. BIG-IP product family includes hardware, modularized software, and virtual appliances that run the F5 TMOS operating system and provides load balancing, firewall, access control, threat protection capabilities. The vendor has released security updates for seven […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2021
Researchers from the Wordfence team found a critical vulnerability in The Plus Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin that could be exploited to take over a website. Researchers at the Wordfence team of the security firm Defiant have spotted a critical flaw in The Plus Addons for Elementor WordPress plugin that could be exploited by attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2021
Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday security updates address 89 vulnerabilities in its products, 14 are listed as Critical and 75 are listed as Important in severity. Microsoft’s March Patch Tuesday security updates address 89 vulnerabilities in its products, including Microsoft Windows components, Azure and Azure DevOps, Azure Sphere, Internet Explorer and Edge (EdgeHTML), Exchange Server, Office […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2021
Microsoft released ProxyLogon security updates for Microsoft Exchange servers running vulnerable unsupported Cumulative Update versions. On March 2nd, Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported Microsoft Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. Now Microsoft has released security updates for Microsoft Exchange […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2021
Apple released out-of-band patches to address a remote code execution, tracked as CVE-2021-1844, that affect iOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari web browser. Apple has released out-of-band security patches to address a critical iOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari web browser to address a security flaw tracked as CVE-2021-1844. The vulnerability was discovered by ClĂ©ment Lecigne of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2021
Experts warn of ongoing attacks targeting QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices to abuse them in cryptocurrency mining. Researchers at 360Netlab are warning of a cryptocurrency malware campaign targeting unpatched QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Threat actors are exploiting two unauthorized remote command execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2020-2506 & CVE-2020-2507, in the Helpdesk app that have been fixed by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2021
Cisco announced that a vulnerability in the Snort detection engine exposes several of its products to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Cisco announced this week that several of its products are exposed to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks due to a vulnerability in the Snort detection engine. The vulnerability resides in the Ethernet Frame Decoder of the Snort detection […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2021
After the disclosure of Microsoft Exchange zero-days, MS Exchange Server team has released a script to determine if an install is vulnerable. This week Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates that address four zero-day issues (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) in all supported MS Exchange versions that are actively exploited in the wild. In response to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2021
Experts found five vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, tracked as CVE-2021-26708, that could lead to local privilege escalation. Positive Technologies researcher Alexander Popov found five high severity vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel that could lead to local privilege escalation. The Linux kernel vulnerabilities are race conditions that reside in AF_VSOCK implementation, they were implicitly introduced in November […]
