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Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2023
Chinese hackers compromised emails of U.S. Government agencies

Chinese hackers have compromised the emails of an unnamed US Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency. In Mid-June a malicious email activity was reported by an unnamed US Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency. Microsoft experts who investigated the suspicious activity discovered that China-linked threat actors have targeted the agency as part of a cyberespionage […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2023
SonicWall urges organizations to fix critical flaws in GMS/Analytics products

SonicWall fixed multiple critical vulnerabilities impacting its GMS firewall management and Analytics management and reporting engine. SonicWall addressed multiple critical vulnerabilities in its Global Management System (GMS) firewall management and Analytics network management and reporting engine. The company fixed 15 vulnerabilities that were disclosed in a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) report in conjunction with NCCGroup. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2023
Citrix fixed a critical flaw in Secure Access Client for Ubuntu

Citrix fixed a critical flaw affecting the Secure Access client for Ubuntu that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. Citrix addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-24492 (CVSS score of 9.6), affecting the Secure Access client for Ubuntu that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2023
Cl0p hacker operating from Russia-Ukraine war front line – exclusive

CyberNews researchers discovered that at least one of the Cl0p ransomware gang masterminds is still residing in Ukraine. Original post at: https://cybernews.com/security/cl0p-hacker-hides-in-ukraine/ As the Cl0p ransomware gang continues to sow anxiety worldwide, affecting prominent companies like the BBC and Deutsche Bank, at least one of the gang masterminds, Cybernews discovered, is still residing in Ukraine. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2023
Fortinet fixed a critical flaw in FortiOS and FortiProxy

Fortinet warns of a critical vulnerability impacting FortiOS and FortiProxy that can allow remote attackers to perform arbitrary code execution. Fortinet has disclosed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-33308 (CVSS score 9.8), that impacts FortiOS and FortiProxy. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to perform arbitrary code execution on vulnerable devices. The issue is […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2023
Microsoft mitigated an attack by Chinese threat actor Storm-0558

Microsoft announced it has mitigated a cyber attack by a China-linked threat actor, tracked as Storm-0558, which targeted customer emails. Microsoft announced it has mitigated an attack conducted by a China-linked threat actor, tracked as Storm-0558, which targeted customer emails. Storm-0558 threat actors focus on government agencies in Western Europe and were observed conducting cyberespionage, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2023
Unpatched Office zero-day CVE-2023-36884 actively exploited in targeted attacks

Microsoft warned today that an unpatched zero-day in multiple Windows and Office products was actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in multiple Windows and Office products that has been actively exploited in the wild. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-36884, was exploited by nation-state actors and cybercriminals to gain remote code execution […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2023
Apple issued Rapid Security Response updates to fix a zero-day but pulled them due to a Safari bug

Apple released Rapid Security Response updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address an actively exploited zero-day. Apple has released Rapid Security Response updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari web browser to address a zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-37450, that has been actively exploited in the wild. Tricking the victim into processing specially crafted web content may lead to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2023
Resecurity identified a zero-day vulnerability in Schneider Electric Accutech Manager

Resecurity researchers identified a zero-day Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the Schneider Electric Accutech Manager product. Resecurity identified a zero-day vulnerability in the Schneider Electric Accutech Manager product. The vulnerability, labeled as CVE-2023-29414 and SEVD-2-23-192-03, has been rated high with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.8. This issue pertains to a Buffer Overflow exploitation (CWE-120) […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2023
VMware warns customers of exploit available for critical vRealize RCE flaw CVE-2023-20864

VMware warns customers of the public availability of an exploit code for the RCE vulnerability CVE-2023-20864 affecting vRealize. VMware warned customers of the availability of an exploit code for the critical RCE vulnerability CVE-2023-20864 in the VMware Aria Operations for Logs analysis tool  (formerly vRealize Log Insight). VMware Aria Operations for Networks (formerly vRealize Network Insight) is […]