Security

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2023
Cloudflare mitigated 89 hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed DDoS attacks exceeding 100 million rps

Cloudflare mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exploiting the flaw HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. Cloudflare DDoS threat report of 2023 states that the company has mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service attacks. 89 of the attacks mitigated by the company exceeded 100 million requests per second (rps), the largest attack peaked at […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2023
Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 Day 1 – organizers awarded $438,750 in prizes

The Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking contest has begun and during the first day, participants received $438,750 in prizes! During the Day 1 of the Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 hacking contest, the organization has awarded a total of $438,750 in prizes! Team Orca of Sea Security received the greatest rewards of the day, the researchers chained two […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2023
VMware addressed critical vCenter flaw also for End-of-Life products

VMware addressed a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-34048, that impacts vCenter Server. vCenter Server is a critical component in VMware virtualization and cloud computing software suite. It serves as a centralized and comprehensive management platform for VMware’s virtualized data centers. The vulnerability CVE-2023-34048 (CVSS score 9.8) is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the implementation of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2023
Citrix warns admins to patch NetScaler CVE-2023-4966 bug immediately

Citrix warned of attacks actively exploiting the vulnerability CVE-2023-4966 in NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances. Citrix is urging administrators to secure all NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances against the CVE-2023-4966 vulnerability, which is actively exploited in attacks. On October 10, Citrix published a security bulletin related to a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-4966, in Citrix NetScaler ADC/Gateway devices. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2023
Former NSA employee pleads guilty to attempted selling classified documents to Russia

A former NSA employee has pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to transmit classified defense information to Russia. Jareh Sebastian Dalke (31), a former NSA employee has admitted to attempting to convey classified defense information to Russia, pleading guilty to the charges. The man pleaded guilty today to six counts of attempting to transmit classified […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2023
Experts released PoC exploit code for VMware Aria Operations for Logs flaw. Patch it now!

VMware is aware of the availability of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for an authentication bypass flaw in VMware Aria Operations for Logs. VMware warned customers of the availability of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-34051, in VMware Aria Operations for Logs (formerly known as vRealize Log Insight). The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2023
How did the Okta Support breach impact 1Password?

1Password detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance after the recent compromise of the Okta support system. The password management and security application 1Password announced it had detected suspicious activity on its Okta instance on September 29, but excluded that user data was exposed. The activity is linked to the recent attack on the Okta […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2023
PII Belonging to Indian Citizens, Including their Aadhaar IDs, Offered for Sale on the Dark Web

Hundreds of millions of PII records belonging to Indian residents, including Aadhaar cards, are being offered for sale on the Dark Web. PII Belonging to Indian Citizens, Including their Aadhaar IDs, Offered for Sale on the Dark Web In early October, Resecurity’s HUNTER (HUMINT) unit identified hundreds of millions of personally identifiable information (PII) records […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2023
CISA adds second Cisco IOS XE flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

US CISA added the vulnerability CVE-2023-20273 in Cisco IOS XE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the vulnerability CVE-2023-20273 in Cisco IOS XE to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The vulnerability is an unspecified issue in the web user interface. An attacker can chain this flaw with CVE-2023-20198 to leverage the new […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2023
SolarWinds fixed three critical RCE flaws in its Access Rights Manager product

Researchers discovered three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) product. Security researchers discovered three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) product. SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is a software solution developed by IT management and monitoring software provider SolarWinds, it was designed to help organizations […]