Security

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2022
CISA adds 12 new flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

CISA added 12 more security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog including four D-Link vulnerabilities. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 12 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including four vulnerabilities in D-Link routers, two Chrome zero-day issues, and a recently disclosed flaw in the QNAP Photo Station. According to Binding Operational […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2022
Cisco will not fix the authentication bypass flaw in EoL routers

Cisco fixed new security flaws affecting its products, including a recently disclosed high-severity issue in NVIDIA Data Plane Development Kit. The most severe issues fixed by Cisco are an unauthenticated Access to Messaging Services Vulnerability affecting Cisco SD-WAN vManage software and a vulnerability in NVIDIA Data Plane Development Kit. The two issues have been tracked as CVE-2022-20696 […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2022
Challenges of User Authentication: What You Need to Know

In the digital age, authentication is paramount to a strong security strategy. Which are the challenges of user authentication? In the digital age, authentication is paramount to a strong security strategy. As virtually every aspect of day-to-day life and business is conducted online, the added convenience has also brought added risk. Information privacy, data sovereignty, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2022
Zyxel addressed a critical RCE flaw in its NAS devices

Networking equipment vendor Zyxel addressed a critical vulnerability impacting its network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Zyxel addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-34747, impacting its network-attached storage (NAS) devices. The CVE-2022-34747 (CVSS score: 9.8) flaw is classified as a format string vulnerability that resides in Zyxel NAS326 firmware versions prior to V5.21(AAZF.12)C0. An attacker can exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2022
Experts discovered TeslaGun Panel used by TA505 to manage its ServHelper Backdoor

Researchers discovered a previously undocumented software control panel, named TeslaGun, used by a cybercrime gang known as TA505. Researchers from cybersecurity firm PRODAFT have discovered a previously undocumented software control panel, tracked as TeslaGun, used by a cybercrime group known as TA505. Russian TA505 hacking group, aka Evil Corp, has been active since 2014 focusing on Retail and banking […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2022
Windows Defender identified Chromium, Electron apps as Hive Ransomware

Microsoft released a Windows Defender update to fix a problem that caused Defender antivirus to identify Chromium, Electron, as malware Microsoft released a Windows Defender update to fix a problem that caused Defender antivirus software to identify the app based on the Chromium browser engine or the Electron JavaScript framework as malware. Multiple users reported […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2022
A new SharkBot variant bypassed Google Play checks again

Experts spotted an upgraded version of the SharkBot malware that was uploaded to the official Google Play Store. Fox IT researchers have spotted an upgraded version of a SharkBot dropper that was uploaded to the official Google Play Store. While previous variants of the dropper relied on Accessibility permissions to automatically install the Sharkbot malware, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2022
IRS mistakenly published confidential info for roughly 120K taxpayers

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mistakenly leaked confidential information for approximately 120,000 taxpayers. Bad news for approximately 120,000 taxpayers who filed a form 990-T as part of their tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service has accidentally leaked their confidential information. Form 990-T is a form that a tax exempt organization files with the IRS to report its unrelated business income and to figure the tax owed on that income. On Friday, the IRS announced it has […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2022
Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address a vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that is being actively exploited in the wild. Google on Friday released emergency fixes to address a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3075, in the Chrome web browser that is being actively exploited in the wild. The CVE-2022-3075 flaw is caused by insufficient data […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2022
Google Chrome issue allows overwriting the clipboard content

A security issue in the Google Chrome browser could allow malicious web pages to automatically overwrite clipboard content. A vulnerability in the Google Chrome browser, as well as Chromium-based browsers, could allow malicious web pages to automatically overwrite the clipboard content without any user interaction and consent simply visiting them. According to a blog post […]