Security

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2023
Dangerous permissions detected in top Android health apps

Leading Android health apps expose users to avoidable threats like surveillance and identity theft, due to their risky permissions. Cybernews has the story. The Android challenge In the digital age, mobile applications have become an integral part of our lives, transforming the way we communicate, work, and entertain ourselves. With the vast array of apps […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
UK Greater Manchester Police disclosed a data breach

UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) disclosed a data breach, threat actors had access to some of its employees’ personal information. UK Greater Manchester Police (GMP) announced that threat actors had access to the personal information of some of its employees after an unnamed third-party supplier was hit with a ransomware attack. The GMP reported that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
Kubernetes flaws could lead to remote code execution on Windows endpoints

Researchers discovered three security flaws in Kubernetes that can lead to remote code execution on Windows endpoints. Akamai researchers recently discovered a high-severity vulnerability in Kubernetes tracked as CVE-2023-3676 (CVSS 8.8). This identification of this issue led to the discovery of two more vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2023-3893, and CVE-2023-3955 (CVSS 8.8). All three vulnerabilities were caused by […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2023
Threat actor leaks sensitive data belonging to Airbus

The multinational aerospace corporation Airbus has launched an investigation into the recent leak of information allegedly stolen from the company. The multinational aerospace corporation Airbus announced that it is investigating a data leak after cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock reported that a hacker posted information on thousands of the company’s vendors to the dark web. A threat actor who goes […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2023
Redfly group infiltrated an Asian national grid as long as six months

A threat actor tracked as Redfly had infected the systems at a national grid located in an unnamed Asian country for six months starting in January. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team discovered that a threat actor called Redfly used the ShadowPad backdoor to compromise a national grid in an Asian country for as long as six months earlier […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2023
Mozilla fixed a critical zero-day in Firefox and Thunderbird

Mozilla addressed a critical zero-day vulnerability in Firefox and Thunderbird that has been actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Mozilla rolled out security updates to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-4863, in Firefox and Thunderbird that has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability is a heap buffer overflow in WebP […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2023
Microsoft September 2023 Patch Tuesday fixed 2 actively exploited zero-day flaws

Microsoft September 2023 Patch Tuesday addressed 59 new flaws, including two vulnerabilities under active attack. Microsoft September 2023 Patch Tuesday security updates addressed 59 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-day. The flaws addressed by the company impact Microsoft Windows and Windows Components; Exchange Server; Office and Office Components; .NET and Visual Studio; Azure; Microsoft Dynamics; […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2023
Adobe fixed actively exploited zero-day in Acrobat and Reader

Software giant Adobe is warning of a critical security vulnerability in the PDF Acrobat and Reader that is actively exploited in the wild. Adobe Patch Tuesday security updates (APSB23-34) addressed a critical zero-day vulnerability actively exploited in the wild in attacks on Adobe Acrobat and Reader products. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-26369, is an out-of-bounds write […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2023
GOOGLE FIXED THE FOURTH CHROME ZERO-DAY OF 2023

Google rolled out emergency security updates to address a new Chrome zero-day (CVE-2023-4863) actively exploited in the wild. Google rolled out emergency security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability that has been actively exploited in attacks in the wild since the start of the year. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-4863, is the fourth actively exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2023
CISA adds recently discovered Apple zero-days to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

U.S. CISA adds vulnerabilities in Apple devices exploited to install NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on iPhones to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the security vulnerabilities chained in the zero-click iMessage exploit BLASTPASS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The two flaws, tracked as CVE-2023-41064 and CVE-2023-41061, were used to install NSO […]