Security

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2023
Child abuse site taken down, organized child exploitation crime suspected – exclusive

A child abuse site has been taken down following a request to German law enforcement by Cybernews research team. A hacker collective, who wanted to remain anonymous, has been relentlessly hunting online crooks who benefit from videos of children being abused. This week, they discovered a website dedicated to pedophiles – it was full of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2023
Misconfigured WBSC server leaks thousands of passports

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) left open a data repository exposing nearly 50,000 files, some of which were highly sensitive, the Cybernews research team has discovered. On June 5th, our researchers discovered a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket storing nearly 48,000 files. A bucket is a container for storing data within AWS’s cloud […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2023
CISA adds JBoss RichFaces Framework flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

US CISA added the flaw CVE-2018-14667 in Red Hat JBoss RichFaces Framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the critical flaw CVE-2018-14667 (CVSS score 9.8) affecting Red Hat JBoss RichFaces Framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The issue is an Expression Language (EL) injection via the UserResource resource, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2023
GOOGLE FIXED THE FIFTH CHROME ZERO-DAY OF 2023

Google released security updates to address a new actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5217, in the Chrome browser. Google on Wednesday released security updates to address a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser which is tracked as CVE-2023-5217. The CVE-2023-5217 is a high-severity heap buffer overflow that affects vp8 encoding in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2023
Russian zero-day broker is willing to pay $20M for zero-day exploits for iPhones and Android devices

A Russian zero-day broker is willing to pay $20 million for zero-day exploits for iPhones and Android mobile devices. The Russian zero-day broker firm Operation Zero is increasing payouts for top-tier mobile exploits. The company is willing to pay up to $20,000,000 for zero-day exploits for iPhone and Android devices. The Russian company pointed out […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2023
DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

DarkBeam left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. The leaked logins present cybercriminals with almost limitless attack capabilities. DarkBeam, a digital risk protection firm, left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records with user emails and passwords from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2023
Top 5 Problems Solved by Data Lineage

Data lineage is the visualization and tracking of data as it moves through various stages of its lifecycle. In an age where data drives decisions and fuels innovation, understanding the journey of data from its inception to its final destination is paramount. Data lineage provides this understanding. Data lineage is the visualization and tracking of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2023
A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities with drone manual lures

A phishing campaign targets Ukrainian military entities using drone manuals as lures to deliver the post-exploitation toolkit Merlin. Securonix researchers recently uncovered a phishing campaign using a Pilot-in-Command (PIC) Drone manual document as a lure to deliver a toolkit dubbed Merlin. The campaign, codenamed STARK#VORTEX by Securonix, targets Ukrainian military entities and CERT-UA attributed it […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2023
Alert! Patch your TeamCity instance to avoid server hack

Experts warn of a critical vulnerability in the TeamCity CI/CD server that can be exploited to take over a vulnerable server. JetBrains TeamCity is a popular and highly extensible Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) server developed by JetBrains, a software development company known for its developer tools. TeamCity is designed to automate various […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2023
Security Affairs newsletter Round 438 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Government of Bermuda blames Russian threat actors for the cyber attack City of Dallas has set […]