Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2022
This paper provides a taxonomic classification of non-state actors in the cyberspace, analyzing their role and impact on a state’s socioeconomic structure Cyber Non-State Actors (CNSA) are key figures in our globalized world: their operations could have a significant impact on international affairs, politics, and on the economy, as much as states do. Non-state actors […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2022
Expert discovered a remote memory-corruption vulnerability affecting the latest version of the OpenSSL library. Security expert Guido Vranken discovered a remote memory-corruption vulnerability in the recently released OpenSSL version 3.0.4. The library was released on June 21, 2022, and affects x64 systems with the AVX-512 instruction set. “OpenSSL version 3.0.4, released on June 21th 2022, is susceptible to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2022
CODESYS addressed 11 security flaws in the ICS Automation Software that could lead to information disclosure and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. CODESYS has released security patches to fix eleven 11 vulnerabilities in its ICS Automation Software. CoDeSys is a development environment for programming controller applications according to the international industrial standard IEC 61131-3. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2022
Russian threat actors may be behind the explosion at a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas, the incident took place on June 8. A Russian hacking group may be responsible for a cyber attack against a liquefied natural gas plant in Texas that led to its explosion on June 8. The explosion took place at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2022
Researchers disclose technical details of a critical flaw in Fusion Middleware, tracked as CVE-2022–21445, that Oracle took six months to patch. Security researchers have published technical details of a critical Fusion Middleware vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022–21445, that was reported to Oracle by researchers PeterJson of VNG Corporation and Nguyen Jang of VNPT in October 2021. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2022
Researchers discovered multiple malicious Python packages in the official PyPI repository stealing AWS credentials and other info. Sonatype researchers discovered multiple Python packages in the official PyPI repository that have been developed to steal secrets (i.e. AWS credentials and environment variables) and also upload these to a publicly exposed endpoint. The malicious packages, which were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2022
The U.S. CISA and the Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) warn of attacks exploiting the Log4Shell flaw in VMware Horizon servers. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER), published a joint advisory to warn of hacking attempts exploiting the Log4Shell flaw in VMware Horizon servers to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2022
The Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group revealed that its Pegasus spyware was used by at least five European countries. The controversial Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group told the European Union lawmakers that its Pegasus spyware was used by at least five countries in the region. NSO Group’s General Counsel Chaim Gelfand admitted that the company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2022
Taiwanese company QNAP is addressing a critical PHP vulnerability that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. Taiwanese vendor QNAP is addressing a critical PHP vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11043 (CVSS score 9.8 out of 10), that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. In certain configurations of FPM setup it is possible to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2022
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. US DoJ announced to have shut down the Russian RSOCKS Botnet MaliBot Android Banking Trojan […]
