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Security Affairs newsletter Round 534 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Law enforcement operations seized BlackSuit ransomware gang’s darknet sites

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Arizona woman sentenced for aiding North Korea in U.S. IT job fraud scheme

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Operation CargoTalon targets Russia’s aerospace with EAGLET malware,

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Unpatched flaw in EoL LG LNV5110R cameras lets hackers gain Admin access

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Koske, a new AI-Generated Linux malware appears in the threat landscape

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Mitel patches critical MiVoice MX-ONE Auth bypass flaw

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Coyote malware is first-ever malware abusing Windows UI Automation

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SonicWall fixed critical flaw in SMA 100 devices exploited in Overstep malware attacks

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DSPM & AI Are Booming: $17.87B and $4.8T Markets by 2033

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Stealth backdoor found in WordPress mu-Plugins folder

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U.S. CISA adds CrushFTP, Google Chromium, and SysAid flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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U.S. CISA urges FCEB agencies to fix two Microsoft SharePoint flaws immediately and added them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Sophos fixed two critical Sophos Firewall vulnerabilities

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French Authorities confirm XSS.is admin arrested in Ukraine

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Microsoft linked attacks on SharePoint flaws to China-nexus actors

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Cisco confirms active exploitation of ISE and ISE-PIC flaws

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SharePoint under fire: new ToolShell attacks target enterprises

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CrushFTP zero-day actively exploited at least since July 18

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Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2018
Boffins discovered seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Researchers who devised the original Meltdown and Spectre attacks disclosed seven new variants that leverage on a technique known as transient execution. In January, white hackers from Google Project Zero disclosed the vulnerabilities that potentially impact all major CPUs, including the ones manufactured by AMD, ARM, and Intel. The expert devised two attacks dubbed Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715), which could […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2018
Meltdown patch for OpenBSD is available … let’s wait for feedbacks

OpenBSD releases Version 11 code update that addresses the Meltdown vulnerability by implementing the separation between the kernel and the user memory pages. OpenBSD addresses the Meltdown vulnerability with the release of a Version 11 code. The update implements the separation between the kernel and the user memory pages. OpenBSD’s Phillip Guenther provided further details on the implementation. “When […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2018
Microsoft: Meltdown and Spectre patches could cause noticeable performance slowdowns

Microsoft officially confirmed that Meltdown and Spectre patches could cause noticeable performance slowdowns contrary to what initially thought. Just after the disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, many security experts argued that forthcoming patches will have a significant impact on the performance (30% degradation), but Intel pointed out that average users will not notice any difference. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2018
Apple released patches to fix Spectre flaws in Safari, macOS, and iOS

Apple released iOS 11.2.2 software, a macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 supplemental update, and Safari 11.0.2 to fix Spectre flaws. On Monday, Apple released patches to fix Spectre flaws in Safari, macOS, and iOS, the tech giant released iOS 11.2.2 software a macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 supplemental update. The patches also fixed vulnerabilities in Apple WebKit, the web […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2018
Microsoft KB4056892 Meltdown/Spectre patch bricks AMD Athlon-powered machines

Many users claim the Security Update for Windows KB4056892, the Microsoft Meltdown/Spectre patch, bricks AMD Athlon-powered machines. Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities will continue to create a lot of problems to users and chip vendors. As you know, tech giants like Apple, Cisco and Microsoft admitted the problem for their products and started rolling out security […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2018
Intel releases patches to mitigate Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Meltdown and Spectre attacks – According to Intel, by the end of the next week, the company will have issued security patches for more than 90% of chips commercialized in the past 5 years. White hat hackers from Google Project Zero this week disclosed the details of Meltdown and Spectre attacks targeting CPUs from major manufacturers, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2018
Meltdown and Spectre attacks affect almost any processor, including Intel, ARM, AMD ones

The Meltdown and Spectre attacks could allow attackers to steal sensitive data which is currently processed on the computer. Almost every modern processor is vulnerable to the ‘memory leaking’ flaws, this has emerged from technical analysis triggered after the announcement of vulnerabilities in Intel Chips. White hackers from Google Project Zero have disclosed the vulnerabilities that potentially impact […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2017
Oracle July 2017 Critical Patch Update addresses record-breaking 308 issues

Oracle just released the July 2017 Critical Patch Update (CPU) to address a total of 308 flaws in its solutions, it’s a record for the IT giant. Oracle issued its quarterly update, the July 2017 Critical Patch Update (CPU), that addresses 308 security vulnerabilities, 30 of them are rated as critical. This July 2017 Critical Patch Update […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2015
GPU-based malware, the evolution of rootkits and keyloggers

Malware developers have presented two proof-of-concept malware, a rootkit and a keylogger, which exploit the GPU of the infected host. Malware authors always demonstrate a great creativity and the ability to propose even more effective solutions, recently developers have published two strains of malware, Jellyfish rootkit and the Demon keylogger, that implement an unusual way to run on a victim’s […]

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