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Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 389

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the newsletter with the international press subscribe here. New PHP Version of Ducktail info-stealer hijacks Facebook Business accounts Palo Alto Networks fixed a high-severity […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2022
New PHP Version of Ducktail info-stealer hijacks Facebook Business accounts

Experts spotted a PHP version of an information-stealing malware called Ducktail spread as cracked installers for legitimate apps and games. Zscaler researchers discovered a PHP version of an information-stealing malware tracked as Ducktail. The malicious code is distributed as free/cracked application installers for a variety of applications including games, Microsoft Office applications, Telegram, and others.   Ducktail has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2022
Palo Alto Networks fixed a high-severity auth bypass flaw in PAN-OS

Palo Alto Networks addressed a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting the PAN-OS 8.1 software. Palo Alto Networks released security patches to address a high-severity authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-0030 (CVSS score 8.1), impacting the PAN-OS 8.1 software. “An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS 8.1 web interface allows a network-based attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 15, 2022
Indian power generation giant Tata Power hit by a cyber attack

Tata Power Company Limited, India’s largest power generation company, announced it was hit by a cyberattack. Tata Power on Friday announced that was hit by a cyber attack. Threat actors hit the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure of the company. The company confirmed that the security breach impacted “some of its IT systems.” “The Tata Power Company […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2022
Experts disclose technical details of now-patched CVE-2022-37969 Windows Zero-Day

Researchers disclosed details of a now-patched flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-37969, in Windows Common Log File System (CLFS). The CVE-2022-37969 (CVSS score: 7.8) flaw is a Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability. The Common Log File System (CLFS) is a general-purpose logging subsystem that can be used by applications running in both kernel mode […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2022
WIP19, a new Chinese APT targets IT Service Providers and Telcos

Chinese-speaking threat actor, tracked as WIP19, is targeting telecommunications and IT service providers in the Middle East and Asia. SentinelOne researchers uncovered a new threat cluster, tracked as WIP19, which has been targeting telecommunications and IT service providers in the Middle East and Asia. The experts believe the group operated for cyber espionage purposes and is […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2022
Experts released PoC exploit code for critical bug CVE-2022-40684 in Fortinet products

Experts released the PoC exploit code for the authentication bypass flaw CVE-2022-40684 in FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for the authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2022-40684 (CVSS score: 9.6) in FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies has been released online. The vulnerability impacts FortiOS versions from 7.0.0 to 7.0.6 and from […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2022
DJI drone tracking data exposed in the US

Over 80,000 drone IDs were exposed in the leak of a database containing information from airspace monitoring devices manufactured by DJI. Original post at CyberNews: https://cybernews.com/privacy/dji-drone-tracking-data-exposed-in-us/ Over 80,000 drone IDs were exposed in a data leak after a database containing information from dozens of airspace monitoring devices manufactured by the Chinese-owned DJI was left accessible […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2022
China-linked Budworm APT returns to target a US entity

The Budworm espionage group resurfaced targeting a U.S.-based organization for the first time, Symantec Threat Hunter team reported. The Budworm cyber espionage group (aka APT27, Bronze Union, Emissary Panda, Lucky Mouse, TG-3390, and Red Phoenix) is behind a series attacks conducted over the past six months against a number of high-profile targets, including the government of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2022
Cloudflare blocked a 2.5 Tbps DDoS attack aimed at the Minecraft server

Cloudflare mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers. Cloudflare announced it has mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers. The Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3 states that multi-terabit massive DDoS attacks have become increasingly frequent. In Q3, the […]