Security

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2022
Trend Micro fixed 2 flaws in Hybrid Cloud Security products

Trend Micro recently addressed two high-severity flaws affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. Trend Micro released security updates to fix two high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-23119 and CVE-2022-23120, affecting some of its hybrid cloud security products. The vulnerabilities affect Deep Security and Cloud One workload security solutions. The flaws were reported by the cybersecurity […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2022
ESET releases fixes for local privilege escalation bug in Windows Applications

Antivirus firm ESET addressed a local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked CVE-2021-37852, impacting its Windows clients. Antivirus firm ESET released security patches to address a high severity local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked CVE-2021-37852, impacting its Windows clients. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to misuse the AMSI scanning feature to elevate privileges in specific scenarios. “According […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2022
RCE in WordPress plugin Essential Addons for Elementor impacts hundreds of thousands of websites

A critical RCE in the popular WordPress plugin Essential Addons for Elementor impacts hundreds of thousands of websites. Essential Addons for Elementor is a popular WordPress plugin used in over a million sites that provides easy-to-use and creative elements to improve the appearance of the pages. The plugin is affected by a critical remote code […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2022
Samba fixed CVE-2021-44142 remote code execution flaw

Samba fixes a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-44142, that can allow remote attackers to execute code with root privileges. Samba has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44142, that can be exploited by remote attackers to gain code execution with root privileges on servers running vulnerable software. Samba is a free software re-implementation of the SMB networking […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2022
CISA adds 8 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The US CISA added eight more flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog that are known to be used in attacks in the wild. The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added eight more flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog‘ is a list of known vulnerabilities that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2022
Americans lost $770 million from social media fraud in 2021, FTC reports

A report from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed that in 2021 Americans lost $770 million from social media frauds The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed that in 2021 Americans lost $770 million from social media frauds. These data are the result of the increased exposure of netizens through social media. The US […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2022
Expert releases PoC for CVE-2022-21882 Windows local privilege elevation issue

A researcher disclosed an exploit for a Windows local privilege elevation issue (CVE-2022-21882) that allows anyone to gain admin privileges in Windows 10. The security researchers RyeLv has publicly released an exploit for a Windows local privilege elevation flaw (CVE-2022-21882) that allows anyone to gain admin privileges in Windows 10. The Win32k elevation of privilege […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2022
US FCC bans China Unicom Americas telecom over national security risks

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoked the license for the China Unicom Americas over serious national security concerns. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revoked the license for China Unicom Americas over “serious national security concerns.” China Unicom is the world’s sixth-largest mobile service provider by subscriber base. The telecom company is a foreign subsidiary of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2022
NCSC warns UK entities of potential destructive cyberattacks from Russia

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) urges organizations to improve cybersecurity due to the risk of imminent destructive cyberattacks from Russia-linked APT groups. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging organizations to improve their cybersecurity posture due to the imminent risk of destructive cyber-attacks from Russian state-sponsored threat actors after recent attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2022
Experts devise a technique to bypass Microsoft Outlook Security feature

A researcher devised a technique to bypass a security feature of Microsoft Outlook and deliver a malicious link to the recipient. Reegun Richard Jayapaul, SpiderLabs lead threat architect at Trustwave, has devised a technique to bypass a security feature of Microsoft Outlook and deliver a malicious link to the recipient. While investigating a malware campaign, […]