Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2024
Cybercriminals Accelerate Online Scams During Ramadan and Eid Fitr

During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams. During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams, coinciding with a surge in retail and online transactions. Middle Eastern enterprises, facing this heightened risk, are urged to bolster consumer protection and reinforce their […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2024
Mozilla fixed Firefox zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024

Mozilla addressed two Firefox zero-day vulnerabilities exploited during the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition. Mozilla has done an amazing job addressing two zero-day vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser exploited during the recent Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition. The researcher Manfred Paul (@_manfp), who won the competition, exploited the two vulnerabilities, respectively tracked CVE-2024-29944 and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2024
Large-scale Sign1 malware campaign already infected 39,000+ WordPress sites

A large-scale malware campaign, tracked as Sign1, has already compromised 39,000 WordPress sites in the last six months. Sucurity researchers at Sucuri spotted a malware campaign, tracked as Sign1, which has already compromised 39,000 WordPress sites in the last six months. The experts discovered that threat actors compromised the websites implanting malicious JavaScript injections that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2024
German police seized the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market

The German police seized the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market disrupting its operation. An operation conducted by the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the Frankfurt cybercrime combating unit (ZIT) led to the seizure of the infrastructure of the darknet marketplace Nemesis Market in Germany and Lithuania. “On Wednesday , the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2024
Unsaflok flaws allow to open millions of doors using Dormakaba Saflok electronic locks

A flaw in Dormakaba Saflok electronic locks, dubbed Unsaflok, can allow threat actors to open millions of doors worldwide. Researchers Lennert Wouters, Ian Carroll, rqu, BusesCanFly, Sam Curry, sshell, and Will Caruana discovered a series of vulnerabilities, collectively named Unsaflok, in Dormakaba Saflok electronic RFID locks. The researchers explained that the issues be chained to forge keycards. Dormakaba Saflok electronic RFID […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2024
Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024: participants earned $1,132,500 for 29 unique 0-days

Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition has ended, and participants earned $1,132,500 for demonstrating 29 unique zero-days. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) announced that participants earned $1,132,500 on the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition for demonstrating 29 unique zero-days. On day one, the Team Synacktiv successfully demonstrated exploits against a Tesla car. The researcher Manfred […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2024
Critical Fortinet’s FortiClient EMS flaw actively exploited in the wild

Researchers released a PoC exploit for a critical flaw in Fortinet’s FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) software, which is actively exploited. Security researchers at Horizon3 have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-48788 (CVSS score 9.3), in Fortinet’s FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) software. The vulnerability is now actively exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2024
Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 Day 1 – team Synacktiv hacked a Tesla

Participants earned $732,500 on the first day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition, a team demonstrated a Tesla hack. Participants earned $732,000 on the first day of the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024 hacking competition for demonstrating 19 unique zero-days, announced Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). The experts successfully demonstrated exploits against a Tesla car, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2024
Ivanti urges customers to fix critical RCE flaw in Standalone Sentry solution

Ivanti urges customers to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability impacting the Standalone Sentry solution. Ivanti addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-41724 (CVSS score of 9.6), impacting Standalone Sentry solution. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system of the appliance within […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2024
New Loop DoS attack may target 300,000 vulnerable hosts

Boffins devised a new application-layer loop DoS attack based on the UDP protocol that impacts major vendors, including Broadcom, Microsoft and MikroTik. Researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (Germany) devised a new denial-of-service (DoS) attack, called loop DoS attack, that hundreds of thousands of internet-facing systems from major vendors. The attack consists […]