Security

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2023
Okta customer support system breach impacted 134 customers

Threat actors who breached the Okta customer support system also gained access to files belonging to 134 customers. Threat actors who breached the Okta customer support system in October gained access to files belonging to 134 customers, the company revealed. Some of the files accessed by the attackers are HAR files that contained session tokens. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2023
Clop group obtained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees

Clop ransomware gang gained access to the email addresses of more than 632K US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice. Russian-speaking Clop ransomware group gained access to the email addresses of about 632,000 US federal employees at the departments of Defense and Justice. The security breach is the result of the MOVEit […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2023
Resecurity: Insecurity of 3rd-parties leads to Aadhaar data leaks in India

Data leaks containing Aadhaar IDs in India were caused by the insecurity of 3rd parties while aggregating such information for KYC. According to Resecurity, a global cybersecurity provider protecting Fortune 500 companies and governments globally, one of the key issues leading to data leaks containing Aadhaar IDs in India is the insecurity of 3rd parties […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2023
CISA adds two F5 BIG-IP flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

US CISA added two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748, in BIG-IP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748 in BIG-IP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA has the two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The two […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2023
Threat actors actively exploit F5 BIG-IP flaws CVE-2023-46747 and CVE-2023-46748

Experts warn that threat actors started exploiting the critical flaw CVE-2023-46747 in F5 BIG-IP installs less than five days after PoC exploit disclosure. F5 this week warned customers about a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS 9.8), that impacts BIG-IP and could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability resides in the configuration […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2023
Critical Atlassian Confluence flaw can lead to significant data loss

Atlassian warned of a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22518, in the Confluence Data Center and Server. Atlassian is warning of a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-22518 (CVSS score 9.1), that affects all versions of Confluence Data Center and Server. The vulnerability is an improper authorization issue that can lead to significant data loss if […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2023
WiHD leak exposes details of all torrent users

World-in-HD (WiHD), a French private video torrent community, left an open instance exposing the emails and passwords of all of its users and administrators. WiHD, a popular torrent tracker specializing in HD movies, inadvertently exposed tens of thousands of its users, the Cybernews research team has recently discovered. WiHD is a private tracker dedicated to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2023
Experts released PoC exploit code for Cisco IOS XE flaw CVE-2023-20198

Researchers publicly released the exploit code for the critical Cisco IOS XE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20198. Researchers from Researchers at Horizon3.ai publicly released the exploit code for the critical Cisco IOS XE vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-20198. Cisco recently warned customers of a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20198 (CVSS score 10), in its IOS XE Software that is actively exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2023
Canada bans WeChat and Kaspersky apps on government-issued mobile devices

Canada banned the Chinese messaging app WeChat and Kaspersky antivirus on government mobile devices due to privacy and security risks. The Government of Canada announced a ban on the use of the WeChat and Kaspersky applications on government-issued mobile devices due to privacy and security risks. The ban will be effective starting from October 30, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2023
HackerOne awarded over $300 million bug hunters

HackerOne announced that it has awarded over $300 million bug hunters as part of its bug bounty programs since the launch of its platform. HackerOne announced that it has surpassed $300 million in total all-time rewards on the HackerOne platform. Thirty white hat hackers have earned more than one million dollars submitting vulnerabilities through the […]