Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2021
Netgear has released security updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities affecting several of its smart switches used by businesses. Netgear has released firmware updates to address high-severity vulnerabilities in more than a dozen of its smart switches used on businesses. The company fixed three security flaws that affect 20 Netgear products, mostly smart switches. Technical details […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2021
A massive DDoS hit New Zealand ‘s third-largest internet operator isolating parts of the country from the Internet. A massive DDoS hit Vocus ISP, New Zealand ‘s third-largest internet operator, isolating parts of the country from the Internet. Vocus provides retail, wholesale and corporate telecommunications services across Australia and New Zealand. Vocus offers data network services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2021
FBI warns ransomware gangs are actively targeting organizations in the food and agriculture sector. The FBI Cyber Division issued a Private Industry Notification (PIN) to warn of ransomware attacks targeting the Food and Agriculture sector disrupting its operations, causing financial loss and negatively impacting the overall food supply chain. Small farms, large producers, processors and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2021
The now-fixed CVE-2020-1910 vulnerability in WhatApp ‘s image filter feature could have exposed user data to remote attackers. A high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp’s image filter feature, tracked as CVE-2020-1910, could have been exploited by attackers to read sensitive information from the app’s memory by simply sending a specially crafted image over the messaging app […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2021
Recently emerged LockFile ransomware family LockFile leverages a novel technique called intermittent encryption to speed up encryption. LockFile ransomware gang started its operations last month, recently it was spotted targeting Microsoft Exchange servers using the recently disclosed ProxyShell vulnerabilities. The popular security expert Kevin Beaumont was one of the first researchers to report that the LockFile operators are using the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2021
Who is behind the massive and prolonged Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that hit the Philippine human rights alliance Karapatan? The 25 days long DDoS attack against the website of Karapatan was launched by almost 30.000 IP addresses, whereas one third of the addresses originated from devices that there were not running âOpen Proxiesâ or âTor exitsâ. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2021
Boffins from the Swiss ETH Zurich university demonstrated PIN bypass attack on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. A group of researchers from the Swiss ETH Zurich university has discovered a vulnerability that allowed them to bypass PIN codes on contactless cards from Mastercard and Maestro. Technically the researchers performed a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack between […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2021
Researchers from Nozomi Networks discovered a critical vulnerability that can be exploited to hack a video surveillance product made by Annke. Researchers at industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks have discovered a critical flaw affecting a video surveillance product made by Annke, a popular manufacturer of surveillance systems and solutions. The vulnerability, tracked as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2021
Researchers disclosed five vulnerabilities in B. Braun ‘s Infusomat Space Large Volume Pump and SpaceStation that could be remotely hacked. Cybersecurity researchers from McAfee disclosed five vulnerabilities in B. Braun’s Infusomat Space Large Volume Pump and SpaceStation that could be exploited by threat actors to alter medication doses. The flawed devices are uses in both […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2021
VMware released security patches to address multiple vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations, including four high severity flaws. VMware addressed multiple vulnerabilities in vRealize Operations, including four high severity flaws. The most severe flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-22025 (CVSS score of 8.6), is a broken access control vulnerability in the vRealize Operations Manager API. An attacker could exploit […]
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