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Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2022
CISA adds Zoho ManageEngine flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

CISA added a security flaw in Zoho ManageEngine, tracked as CVE-2022-35405, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a recently disclosed security flaw in Zoho ManageEngine, tracked as CVE-2022-35405 (CVSS score 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. According to Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2022
Surge in Magento 2 template attacks exploiting the CVE-2022-24086 flaw

Sansec researchers warn of a surge in hacking attempts targeting a critical Magento 2 vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-24086. Sansec researchers are warning of a hacking campaign targeting the CVE-2022-24086 Magento 2 vulnerability. Magento is a popular open-source e-commerce platform owned by Adobe, which is used by hundreds of thousands of e-stores worldwide. In February, Adobe […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2022
Australian Telecoms company Optus discloses security breach

Australian telecoms company Optus disclosed a data breach, threat actors gained access to former and current customers. Optus, one of the largest service providers in Australia, disclosed a data breach. The intruders gained access to the personal information of both former and current customers. The company is a subsidiary of Singtel with 10.5 million subscribers as of 2019. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2022
AttachMe: a critical flaw affects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

A critical vulnerability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) could be exploited to access the virtual disks of other Oracle customers. Wiz researchers discovered a critical flaw in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) that could be exploited by users to access the virtual disks of other Oracle customers. An attacker can trigger the flaw to exfiltrate sensitive […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2022
A 15-Year-Old Unpatched Python bug potentially impacts over 350,000 projects

More than 350,000 open source projects can be potentially affected by a 15-Year-Old unpatched Python vulnerability More than 350,000 open source projects can be potentially affected by an unpatched Python vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2007-4559 (CVSS score: 6.8), that was discovered 15 years ago. The issue is a Directory traversal vulnerability that resides in the ‘extract’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2022
Over 39K unauthenticated Redis services on the internet targeted in cryptocurrency campaign

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. Redis, is a popular open source data structure tool that can be used as an in-memory distributed database, message broker or cache. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2022
Hackers stole $160 Million from Crypto market maker Wintermute

Threat actors have stolen around $160 million worth of digital assets worth from crypto trading firm Wintermute. Malicious actors continue to target organizations in the cryptocurrency industry, the last victim in order of time is crypto trading firm Wintermute. The company made the headlines after that threat actors have stolen around $160 million worth of digital assets. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2022
U.S. gov adds more Chinese Telecom firms to the Covered List

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has added more Chinese telecom firms to the Covered List. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has added Pacific Network Corp, ComNet (USA) LLC, and China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited, to the Covered List. The Covered List, published by Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau published, included products and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2022
Imperva blocked a record DDoS attack with 25.3 billion requests

Cybersecurity company Imperva announced to have mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack with a total of over 25.3 billion requests. Cybersecurity firm Imperva mitigated a DDoS attack with over 25.3 billion requests on June 27, 2022. According to the experts, the attack marks a new record for Imperva’s application DDoS mitigation solution. The attack targeted an unnamed […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2022
Russian Sandworm APT impersonates Ukrainian telcos to deliver malware

Russia-linked APT group Sandworm has been observed impersonating telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware. Russia-linked cyberespionage group Sandworm has been observed impersonating telecommunication providers to target Ukrainian entities with malware. Multiple security firms have reported that the Sandworm APT continues to target Ukraine with multiple means, including custom malware and botnet like Cyclops […]