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Security Affairs newsletter Round 531 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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North Korea-linked threat actors spread macOS NimDoor malware via fake Zoom updates

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Critical Sudo bugs expose major Linux distros to local Root exploits

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Google fined $314M for misusing idle Android users' data

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A flaw in Catwatchful spyware exposed logins of +62,000 users

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China-linked group Houken hit French organizations using zero-days

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Cybercriminals Target Brazil: 248,725 Exposed in CIEE One Data Breach

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Europol shuts down Archetyp Market, longest-running dark web drug marketplace

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Kelly Benefits data breach has impacted 550,000 people, and the situation continues to worsen as the investigation progresses

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Cisco removed the backdoor account from its Unified Communications Manager

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U.S. Sanctions Russia's Aeza Group for aiding crooks with bulletproof hosting

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Qantas confirms customer data breach amid Scattered Spider attacks

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CVE-2025-6554 is the fourth Chrome zero-day patched by Google in 2025

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U.S. CISA adds TeleMessage TM SGNL flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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A sophisticated cyberattack hit the International Criminal Court

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Esse Health data breach impacted 263,000 individuals

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Europol dismantles €460M crypto scam targeting 5,000 victims worldwide

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CISA and U.S. Agencies warn of ongoing Iranian cyber threats to critical infrastructure

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U.S. CISA adds Citrix NetScaler flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Canada bans Hikvision over national security concerns

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Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2018
Funny? Useful? Cool? Kali Linux natively on Windows 10

It’s funny, but it is true, the popular Kali Linux hacking distro is available for download on the official Microsoft App Store on Windows 10. Kali Linux is now natively available on Windows 10, without requiring dual boot or virtualization. Kali Linux isn’t the unique Linux distribution available on the Windows App Store, Windows users […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2018
Chaos backdoor, a malicious code that returns from the past targets Linux servers

Security experts from GoSecure, hackers are launching SSH brute-force attacks on poorly secured Linux servers to deploy a backdoor dubbed Chaos backdoor. “This post describes a backdoor that spawns a fully encrypted and integrity checked reverse shell that was found in our SSH honeypot,” states the report published by GoSecure. “We named the backdoor ‘Chaos’, following the name […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2017
Researchers discover a vulnerability in the DIRTY COW original patch

Researchers discovered that the original patch for the Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) is affected by a security flaw. The original patch for the Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195) is affected by a security flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to run local code on affected systems and exploit a race condition to perform a privilege escalation […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2017
Google Syzkaller fuzzer allowed to discover several flaws in Linux USB Subsystem

The Google researcher Andrey Konovalov discovered several vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel USB subsystem using the Google Syzkaller fuzzer. Google researcher Andrey Konovalov has discovered many security vulnerabilities in Linux USB Subsystem. The expert used a fuzzing tool developed by Google dubbed Syzkaller fuzzer, he discovered tens of vulnerabilities, including 22 security flaws. Konovalov published a detailed analysis of 14 vulnerabilities that have […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2017
Linux kernel affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability

Cisco issued a security advisory on a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, patch it as soon as possible. On Friday, Cisco issued a security advisory on a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA). The vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2017-15265, is due to a use-after-free memory […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2017
A high-risk two-years old flaw in Linux kernel was just patched

A high-risk security vulnerability discovered more than two years ago has been patched in Linux kernel. The flaw discovered by researchers with Qualys Research Labs affects all Linux distributions that have not fixed their kernels after a commit released on April 14, 2015. Tracked as CVE-2017-1000253, the flaw could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges. The vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2017
ZNIU, the first Android malware family to exploit the Dirty COW vulnerability

Security experts at Trend Micro have recently spotted a new strain of Android malware, dubbed ZNIU, that exploits the Dirty COW Linux kernel vulnerability. The Dirty COW vulnerability was discovered by the security expert Phil Oester in October 2016, it could be exploited by a local attacker to escalate privileges. The name ‘Dirty COW’ is due to the fact that it’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2017
Creator of the Ebury botnet sentenced to 46 months in jail

US authorities sentenced a Russian man to 46 months in prison and accused him of operating an Ebury botnet composed of tens of thousands of servers. US authorities sentenced a Russian man to 46 months in prison and accused him of infecting tens of thousands of servers worldwide with a Linux malware to generate millions in fraudulent payments. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2017
Wikileaks Vault 7 – Imperial projects revealed the 3 hacking tools Achilles, SeaPea and Aeris

Wikileaks published another batch of classified documents from the CIA Vault 7 leak, it includes details of the Imperial project. Today another batch of classified documents from the CIA Vault 7 leak was published by Wikileaks. The documents are related to a CIA project codenamed ‘Imperial,’ they include details of three CIA hacking tools and implants that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 24, 2017
New Debian 9.1 release includes 26 security fixes for 55 packages

The Debian Project announced the Debian 9.1 GNU/Linux, a version that brings numerous updates and addresses many security issues. The Debian Project announced the new Debian 9.1 release that includes 26 security fixes. The list of fixed problems includes the Heimdal Kerberos man-in-the-middle vulnerability, a 20 years-old vulnerability in Kerberos that was parched this week for both Microsoft and Linux distros. […]

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