Security

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2024
UK Defence Secretary jet hit by an electronic warfare attack in Poland

Russian hackers have knocked down the GPS and communications of Defence Secretary Grant Shapps RAF Dassault Falcon 900 jet with electronic warfare attack. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps RAF Dassault Falcon 900 jet flew from Poland, where he visited British troops in Steadfast Defender, to the UK. The UK defence chief confirmed the complete support of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2024
Cisco fixed high-severity elevation of privilege and DoS bugs

Cisco this week addressed high-severity elevation of privilege and denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities in IOS RX software. Cisco addressed multiple vulnerabilities in IOS RX software, including three high-severity issues that can be exploited to elevate privileges and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability CVE-2024-20320 is a Cisco IOS XR Software SSH privilege escalation vulnerability. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2024
Fortinet fixes critical bugs in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiClientEMS

Fortinet released security updates to address critical code execution vulnerabilities in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiClientEMS. Fortinet this week has released security updates to fix critical code execution vulnerabilities in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiClientEMS. The first vulnerability is an out-of-bounds write issue, tracked as CVE-2023-42789 (CVSS score 9.3), it can be exploited to execute unauthorized code […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2024
Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after a third-party vendor hack

Acer Philippines disclosed a data breach after employee data was leaked by a threat actor on a hacking forum. Acer Philippines confirmed that employee data was compromised in an attack targeting a third-party service provider. Acer Inc. is a Taiwanese multinational company that produces computer hardware and electronics, Acer is investigating the security breach with the help […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2024
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2024 fixed 59 flaws

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2024 addressed 59 security vulnerabilities in its products, including RCE flaws. Microsoft released Patch Tuesday security updates for March 2023 that address 59 security vulnerabilities in its products. The IT giant addressed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; Azure; .NET Framework and Visual […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2024
Insurance scams via QR codes: how to recognise and defend yourself

Threat actors can abuse QR codes to carry out sophisticated scams, as reported by the Italian Postal Police in its recent alert. As is well known, QR codes are two-dimensional barcodes that can be read with a smartphone or other hand-held device. They are widely used to access information, services, or online payments quickly and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2024
BianLian group exploits JetBrains TeamCity bugs in ransomware attacks

BianLian ransomware group was spotted exploiting vulnerabilities in JetBrains TeamCity software in recent attacks. Researchers from GuidePoint Security noticed, while investigating a recent attack linked to the BianLian ransomware group, that the threat actors gained initial access to the target by exploiting flaws in a TeamCity server. The BianLian ransomware emerged in August 2022, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2024
CISA adds JetBrains TeamCity bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS Score 9.8) JetBrains TeamCity authentication bypass vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week Rapid7 researchers disclosed two new critical security vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2024
Critical Fortinet FortiOS bug CVE-2024-21762 potentially impacts 150,000 internet-facing devices

Researchers warn that the critical vulnerability CVE-2024-21762 in Fortinet FortiOS could potentially impact 150,000 exposed devices. In February, Fortinet warned that the critical remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2024-21762 (CVSS score 9.6) in FortiOS SSL VPN was actively exploited in attacks in the wild. The security firm did not provide details about the attacks exploiting this vulnerability. The issue […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2024
QNAP fixed three flaws in its NAS devices, including an authentication bypass

QNAP addressed three vulnerabilities in its NAS products that can be exploited to access devices. QNAP addressed three vulnerabilities in Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices that can be exploited to access the devices. The three flaws fixed are: The vulnerability CVE-2024-21899 (CVSS score 9.8) is the most severe of the above issues, it can be […]