Security

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2023
GitLab addressed critical vulnerability CVE-2023-5009

GitLab rolled out security patches to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5009, that can be exploited to run pipelines as another user. GitLab has released security patches to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5009 (CVSS score: 9.6), that allows an attacker to run pipelines as another user. The issue resides in GitLab EE and affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2023
Trend Micro addresses actively exploited zero-day in Apex One and other security Products

Trend Micro addressed a zero-day code execution vulnerability (CVE-2023-41179) in Apex One that has been actively exploited in the wild. Trend Micro has released security updates to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-41179, impacting endpoint security products, including Apex One, Apex One SaaS, and Worry-Free Business Security products.  According to the security […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2023
Recent cyber attack is causing Clorox products shortage

The cyber attack that hit the cleaning products manufacturer Clorox in August is still affecting the supply of the products to customers. The Clorox Company is a multinational consumer goods company that specializes in the production and marketing of various household and professional cleaning, health, and personal care products. The cleaning product giant announced in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023
Microsoft AI research division accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data

Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed 38TB of sensitive data via a public GitHub repository since July 2020. Cybersecurity firm Wiz discovered that the Microsoft AI research division accidentally leaked 38TB of sensitive while publishing a bucket of open-source training data on GitHub. The exposed data exposed a disk backup of two employees’ workstations containing secrets, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2023
FBI hacker USDoD leaks highly sensitive TransUnion data

Researchers from vx-underground reported that FBI hacker ‘USDoD‘ leaked sensitive data from consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion. TransUnion is an American consumer credit reporting agency. TransUnion collects and aggregates information on over one billion individual consumers in over thirty countries, including “200 million files profiling nearly every credit-active consumer in the United States”. A threat actor who […]

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 monthsïżŒ

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 […]