Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2025
Hackers exploit Apache ActiveMQ flaw to install DripDropper on Linux, then patch it to block rivals and hide their tracks. Red Canary researchers observed attackers exploit a 2-year-old Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-46604 (CVSS score of 10.0), to gain persistence on cloud Linux systems and deploy DripDropper malware. Uniquely, they patch the flaw post-exploit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2025
Lenovo webcam flaws, dubbed BadCam, let attackers turn them into BadUSB devices to inject keystrokes and launch OS-independent attacks. Eclypsium researchers found vulnerabilities in some Lenovo webcams, collectively dubbed BadCam, that could let attackers turn them into BadUSB devices to inject keystrokes and launch OS-independent attacks. Principal security researchers Jesse Michael and Mickey Shkatov demonstrated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2025
A stealthy Linux backdoor named Plague, hidden as a malicious PAM module, allows attackers to bypass auth and maintain persistent SSH access. Nextron Systems researchers discovered a new stealthy Linux backdoor called Plague, hidden as a malicious PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) module. It silently bypasses authentication and grants persistent SSH access. A Pluggable Authentication Module […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2025
Koske is a new Linux malware designed for cryptomining, likely developed with the help of artificial intelligence. Koske is a new Linux AI-generated malware that was developed for cryptomining activities. Aquasec researchers reported that the malicious code uses rootkits and polyglot image file abuse to evade detection. Attackers exploit a misconfigured server to drop backdoors […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2025
Critical Sudo flaws let local users gain root access on Linux systems, the vulnerabilities affect major Linux distributions. Cybersecurity researchers disclosed two vulnerabilities in the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. Local attackers can exploit the vulnerabilities to escalate privileges to root on affected systems. Sudo (short for “superuser do”) is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2025
Researchers discovered two local privilege escalation flaws that could let attackers gain root access on systems running major Linux distributions. Qualys researchers discovered two local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities, an attacker can exploit them to gain root privileges on machines running major Linux distributions. The two vulnerabilities are: The first flaw (CVE-2025-6018) allows an unprivileged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2025
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Linux Kernel vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Google Chromium V8 Out-of-Bounds Read and Write Vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-0386, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-0386 (CVSS score: 7.8), is an improper ownership vulnerability in the Linux kernel that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2025
Qualys warns of two information disclosure flaws in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora distros. Researchers discovered a vulnerability in Apport (Ubuntu’s core dump handler) and another bug in systemd-coredump, which is used in the default configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and the Fedora distribution. systemd-coredump automatically captures “core […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 28, 2025
Researchers created a PoC rootkit called Curing that uses Linux’s io_uring feature to evade traditional system call monitoring. Armo researchers have demonstrated a proof-of-concept (PoC) rootkit named Curing that relies on Linux asynchronous I/O mechanism io_uring to bypass traditional system call monitoring. “Curing is a POC of a rootkit that uses io_uring to perform different tasks without using any syscalls, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2025
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Linux Kernel flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Linux Kernel flaws, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-53197 and CVE-2024-53150, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability CVE-2024-53197 (CVSS score of 7.8) resides in the Linux kernel’s ALSA USB-audio driver affecting Extigy […]
