Security

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2024
SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 20

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape. New Campaign Uses Remcos RAT to Exploit Victims Bengal cat lovers in Australia get psspsspss’d in Google-driven […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2024
Security Affairs newsletter Round 498 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. A botnet exploits e GeoVision zero-day to compromise EoL devices Palo Alto Networks confirmed active exploitation of recently […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2024
A botnet exploits e GeoVision zero-day to compromise EoL devices

A botnet employed in DDoS or cryptomining attacks is exploiting a zero-day in end-of-life GeoVision devices to grow up. Researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation observed a botnet exploiting a zero-day in GeoVision EOL (end-of-Life) devices to compromise devices in the wild. The GeoVision zero-day, tracked as CVE-2024-11120 (CVSS 9.8), is a pre-auth command injection vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2024
Palo Alto Networks confirmed active exploitation of recently disclosed zero-day

Palo Alto Networks confirmed active exploitation of a zero-day in its PAN-OS firewall and released new indicators of compromise (IoCs). Last week, Palo Alto Networks warned customers to limit access to their next-gen firewall management interface due to a potential remote code execution vulnerability (CVSSv4.0 Base Score: 9.3) in PAN-OS. The cybersecurity company had no […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2024
NSO Group used WhatsApp exploits even after Meta-owned company sued it

Court filing revealed that NSO Group used WhatsApp exploits after the instant messaging firm sued the surveillance company. NSO Group developed malware that relied on WhatsApp exploits to infect target individuals even after the Meta-owned instant messaging company sued the surveillance firm. “As a threshold matter, NSO admits that it developed and sold the spyware […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2024
Bitfinex hacker Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced to 5 years in prison

Bitfinex hacker, Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole 1 billion worth of Bitcoins from Bitfinex in 2016, has been sentenced to five years in prison. “Ilya Lichtenstein was sentenced today to five years in prison for his involvement in a money laundering conspiracy arising from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, a global […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2024
U.S. CISA adds Palo Alto Networks Expedition bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Palo Alto Networks Expedition bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following Palo Alto Networks Expedition vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Last week, Palo Alto Networks addressed multiple vulnerabilities that an attacker can chain to hijack […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2024
Hackers target critical flaw CVE-2024-10914 in EOL D-Link NAS Devices

The exploitation of the recently disclosed ‘won’t fix’ issue CVE-2024-10914 in legacy D-Link NAS devices began days after its disclosure.   Days after D-Link announced it wouldn’t patch a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10914 (CVSS score of 9.8), in legacy D-Link NAS devices, that threat actors started attempting to exploit. The vulnerability CVE-2024-10914 is a command […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2024
Zoom addressed two high-severity issues in its platform

Zoom addressed six flaws, including two high-severity issues that could allow remote attackers to escalate privileges or leak sensitive information. Zoom addressed six vulnerabilities in its video conferencing and communication platform. Two of these vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-45421 and CVE-2024-45419, are high-severity issues that remote attackers could exploit to escalate privileges or leak sensitive information. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2024
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2024 fix two actively exploited zero-days

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2024 addressed 89 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-day flaws. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2024 fixed 89 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; Azure; .NET and Visual Studio; LightGBM; Exchange Server; SQL Server; TorchGeo; Hyper-V; and Windows VMSwitch. Four of these […]