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Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2022
CISA orders federal agencies to patch CVE-2022-26925 by July 22

US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds CVE-2022-26925 Windows LSA flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. In May the US CISA removed the CVE-2022-26925 Windows LSA vulnerability from its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog due to Active Directory (AD) certificate authentication problems observed after the installation of Microsoft’s May 2022 Patch Tuesday security updates. “CISA […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2022
Tens of Jenkins plugins are affected by zero-day vulnerabilities

Jenkins security team disclosed tens of flaws affecting 29 plugins for the Jenkins automation server, most of them are yet to be patched. Jenkins is the most popular open-source automation server, it is maintained by CloudBees and the Jenkins community. The automation server supports developers build, test and deploy their applications, it has hundreds of thousands […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2022
Microsoft: Raspberry Robin worm already infected hundreds of networks

Microsoft announced that the Windows worm Raspberry Robin has already infected the networks of hundreds of organizations. Raspberry Robin is a Windows worm discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Red Canary, the malware propagates through removable USB devices. The malicious code uses Windows Installer to reach out to QNAP-associated domains and download a malicious DLL. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2022
Security Affairs newsletter Round 372 by Pierluigi Paganini

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs for free in your email box. The role of Social Media in modern society – Social Media Day 22 interview Experts shared PoC exploit code for RCE in Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit Plus tool A ransomware attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2022
Half of actively exploited zero-day issues in H1 2022 are variants of previous flaws

Google Project Zero states that in H1 2022 at least half of zero-day issues exploited in attacks were related to not properly fixed old flaws. Google Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone published a blog post that resumes her speech at the FIRST conference in June 2022, the presentation is titled “0-day In-the-Wild Exploitation in 2022…so […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2022
Experts shared PoC exploit code for RCE in Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit Plus tool

Researchers shared technical details and proof-of-concept exploit code for the CVE-2022-28219 flaw in Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit Plus tool. Security researchers from Horizon3.ai have published technical details and proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-28219 (CVSS 9.8 out of 10), in the Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit Plus tool. The tool allows monitoring activities of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2022
SessionManager Backdoor employed in attacks on Microsoft IIS servers worldwide

Researchers warn of a new ‘SessionManager’ Backdoor that was employed in attacks targeting Microsoft IIS Servers since March 2021. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new ‘SessionManager’ Backdoor that was employed in attacks targeting Microsoft IIS Servers since March 2021. “In early 2022, we investigated one such IIS backdoor: SessionManager. In late April 2022, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2022
A long-running cryptomining campaign conducted by 8220 hackers now targets Linux servers

Microsoft spotted a cloud threat actor tracked as 8220 that is now targeting Linux servers in a long-running cryptomining campaign. Microsoft Security Intelligence experts are warning of a long-running campaign conducted by a cloud threat actor group, tracked as 8220, that is now targeting Linux servers to install crypto miners. “We observed notable updates to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2022
Pro-Russian hackers launched a massive DDoS attack against Norway

Norway’s National Security Authority (NSM) confirmed that a DDoS attack took down some of the country’s most important websites. Norway’s National Security Authority (NSM) confirmed that some of the country’s most important websites and online services were taken down by a massive DDoS attack conducted by a pro-Russian group. NSM did not explicitly attribute the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2022
Korean cybersecurity agency released a free decryptor for Hive ransomware

Good news for the victims of the Hive ransomware, Korean security researchers have released a free decryptor for some versions. Good news for the victims of the Hive ransomware, the South Korean cybersecurity agency KISA has released a free decryptor for versions from v1 till v4. “The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) is distributing […]