Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Researchers at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) tracked as CVE-2019-6177. Security experts at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) that exists since 2011. “A vulnerability reported in Lenovo Solution Center version 03.12.003, which is no longer supported, could allow log […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Experts at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft Office and Adobe vulnerabilities to infect systems. Malware researchers at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft Office and Adobe vulnerabilities to infect Windows and Mac systems. Asruex first appeared in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Hackers are exploiting recently disclosed flaws in enterprise virtual private network (VPN) products from Fortinet and Pulse Secure. The popular cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont has observed threat actors attempting to exploit the CVE-2018-13379 in the FortiOS SSL VPN web portal and CVE-2019-11510 flaw in Pulse Connect Secure. The CVE-2018-13379 is a path traversal vulnerability in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the case of employees at a nuclear power plant that connected its system online to mine cryptocurrency. The Ukrainian Secret Service (SBU) launched an investigation after employees at a local nuclear power plant connected some systems of the internal network to the Internet to mine cryptocurrency. The incident was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Cisco provided updates for security advisories for three flaws affecting Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches patched in early August. Cisco has updated security advisories for three vulnerability in Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches that have been patched in early August. The three vulnerabilities were reported by the security researcher Pedro Ribeiro, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2019
Isnât public Wi-Fi great? If youâre having a tea or coffee in a cafe or restaurant you can check your emails and social media. If youâre waiting for a flight what better way to pass the time than logging onto your favourite website, checking your bank account or even doing a bit of online shopping? […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2019
Crooks behind the attacks against Texas governments are now demanding $2.5 million to allow victims to access encrypted data. The cybercriminals behind the wave of attacks that hit 23 Texas governments are now demanding $2.5 million to allow victims to access encrypted data. The attacks started in the morning of August 16 and security experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2019
A new zero-day vulnerability in the for Windows impacting over 96 million users was disclosed by researcher Vasily Kravets. A news zero-day flaw in the Steam client for Windows client impacts over 96 million users. The flaw is a privilege escalation vulnerability and it has been publicly disclosed by researcher Vasily Kravets. Kravets is one of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2019
Experts from Group-Ib that exposed the most recent campaigns carried out by Silence reported that damage from the APT group operations increases fivefold. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has exposed the most recent campaigns carried out by Silence, a Russian-speaking APT group, in the new âSilence 2.0: Going Globalâ report. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2019
Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have removed 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries that contained a backdoor. Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have discovered a backdoor mechanism in 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries. The backdoor was used by attackers to inject mining code in Ruby projects using the malicious versions […]
