Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 329

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs 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 international press subscribe here. EskyFun data leak, over 1 million Android gamers impacted Boffins show PIN bypass attack Mastercard and Maestro […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2021
Some Synology products impacted by recently disclosed OpenSSL flaws

Taiwan vendor Synology announced that recently disclosed vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-3711 and CVE-2021-3712) in the OpenSSL impact some of its products. Taiwanese company Synology revealed that the recently disclosed remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS) OpenSSL vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-3711 and CVE-2021-3712) impact some of its products. “Multiple vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to conduct denial-of-service attack or possibly execute arbitrary code via […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2021
Boffins show PIN bypass attack Mastercard and Maestro contactless payments

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 28, 2021
Phorpiex botnet shuts down and authors put source code for sale

Crooks behind the Phorpiex botnet have shut down their operations and put the source code for sale on the dark web. The criminal organization behind the Phorpiex botnet have shut down their operations and put the source code of the bot for sale on a cybercrime forum in on a dark web. The news was […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2021
An RCE in Annke video surveillance product allows hacking the device

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
ChaosDB, a Critical Cosmos DB flaw affected thousands of Microsoft Azure Customers

Microsoft has fixed a critical flaw in Cosmos DB that allowed any Azure user to remotely take over other users’ databases without any authorization. Researchers from Cloud security company Wiz disclosed technical details of a now-fixed Azure Cosmos database vulnerability, dubbed ChaosDB, that could have been potentially exploited by attackers to gain full admin access […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2021
Victims of Ragnarok ransomware can decrypt their files for free

Ragnarok ransomware operators are ceasing their operations and released the master key that can allow their victims to decrypt files for free. The Ragnarok ransomware group has been active since at least January 2020 and hit dozens of organizations worldwide. The news was reported by Bleeping Computer that also noticed that ransomware operators have replaced […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2021
B. Braun Infusomat pumps could be hacked to alter medication doses

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
Cisco fixed a critical flaw in Cisco APIC for Nexus 9000 series switches

Cisco addressed a critical security vulnerability in the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) interface used in its Nexus 9000 Series Switches. Cisco has released security updates to address a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-1577, in the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) interface used in its Nexus 9000 Series Switches. The vulnerability could be exploited to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2021
Kaseya fixed two of the three Kaseya Unitrends zero-days found in July

Software firm Kaseya addressed Kaseya Unitrends zero-day vulnerabilities that were reported by security researchers at the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD). Kaseya released security updates address server-side Kaseya Unitrends zero-day vulnerabilities that were reported by security researchers at the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD). Kaseya Unitrends is a cloud-based enterprise solution that provides affordable, […]