Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2020
Google has addressed a bug in its feedback tool incorporated across its services that could have allowed attackers to view users’ private docs. Google has addressed a flaw in its feedback tool that is part of multiple of its services that could be exploited by attackers to take screenshots of sensitive Google Docs documents by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2020
The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) warns of ransomware attacks on COVID-19 vaccine research organizations. The US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a noticed to warn financial institutions of ransomware attacks aimed at COVID-19 vaccine research organizations. “The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is issuing this Notice to alert […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2020
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a tool for detecting potentially malicious activities in Azure/Microsoft 365 environments. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)’s Cloud Forensics team has released a PowerShell-based tool, dubbed Sparrow, that can that helps administrators to detect anomalies and potentially malicious activities in Azure/Microsoft 365 environments. The tool was developed to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2020
White hat hacker could be a profitable profession, Cosmin Iordache earned more than $2M reporting flaws through the bug bounty program HackerOne. Iordache is the first bug bounty hunter to earn more than $2,000,000 in bounty awards through the vulnerability coordination and bug bounty program HackerOne. HackerOne announced that the bug bounty hunter Cosmin Iordache (@inhibitor181) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2020
SolarWinds released an updated advisory for the SuperNova malware discovered while investigating the recent supply chain attack. SolarWinds has released an updated advisory for the SuperNova backdoor that was discovered while investigating the recent SolarWinds Orion supply-chain attack. The SuperNova backdoor was likely used by a separate threat actor. After the initial disclosure of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2020
GoDaddy made the headlines for an initiative that is dividing cybersecurity community, it sent phishing messages offering bonuses to its employees. GoDaddy sent an email to its employee that promised a Christmas bonus to help them to face economic problems caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The web provider apologized Thursday for the cyber security test […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2020
CrowdStrike released a free Azure security tool after it was notified by Microsoft of a failed attack leveraging compromised Azure credentials. While investigating the impact of the recent SolarWind hack, on December 15th Microsoft reported to CrowdStrike that threat actors attempted to read CrowdStrike’s emails by using a compromised Microsoft Azure reseller’s account. “Specifically, they […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2020
The IT giants VMware and Cisco revealed they were impacted by the recently disclosed SolarWinds supply chain attack. VMware and Cisco confirmed to have been both impacted by the recent SolarWinds hack. A recent advisory published by the NSA is warning that Russian state-sponsored hackers are exploiting the recently patched CVE-2020-4006 VMware flaw to steal sensitive information from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2020
Multiple Dell Wyse thin client models are affected by critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a remote attacker to take over the devices. Critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2020-29492 and CVE-2020-29491 affect several Dell Wyse thin client models that could be exploited by a remote attacker to execute malicious code and gain access to arbitrary files. In computer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2020
NATO announced it is assessing its systems after the SolarWinds supply chain attack that impacted multiple US government agencies. NATO announced it is checking its systems after the SolarWinds supply chain attack to determine if they were infected with a backdoor. “At this time, no evidence of compromise has been found on any NATO networks. […]
