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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 July 06, 2017
Wikileaks: BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon CIA Implants steal SSH Credentials from Windows and Linux OSs

WikiLeaks leaked documents detailing BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon CIA implants designed to steal SSH credentials from Windows and Linux OSs. WikiLeaks has published a new batch of documents from the Vault7 dump detailing two new CIA implants alleged used by the agency to intercept and exfiltrate SSH (Secure Shell) credentials from both Windows and Linux operating systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2017
Wikileaks – CIA developed OutlawCountry Malware to hack Linux systems

WikiLeaks released a new batch of documents that detail the CIA tool OutlawCountry used to remotely spy on computers running Linux operating systems. WikiLeaks has released a new batch of documents from the Vault 7 leak that details a CIA tool, dubbed OutlawCountry, used by the agency to remotely spy on computers running Linux operating systems. According to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 29, 2017
A critical flaw allows hacking Linux machines with just a malicious DNS Response

A remote attacker can trigger the buffer overflow vulnerability to execute malicious code on affected Linux systems with just a malicious DNS response. Chris Coulson, Ubuntu developer at Canonical, has found a critical vulnerability Linux that can be exploited to remotely hack machines running the popular OS. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2017-9445, resides in the Systemd init system […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2017
Stack Clash vulnerability allows an attacker to execute code as root

Stack Clash is a local privilege escalation flaw in Linux, BSD, Solaris and other open source systems that allows an attacker to execute code as root. Linux, BSD, Solaris and other open source systems are vulnerable to a local privilege escalation vulnerability known as Stack Clash that allows an attacker to execute code as root. Stack Clash is […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 31, 2017
A recently discovered Linux flaw could be exploited by Sudo Users to gain Root Privileges

Security researchers at Qualys Security have discovered a Linux Flaw that could be exploited to escalate privileges and overwrite any file on the filesystem. Security researchers at Qualys Security have discovered a Linux flaw that could be exploited to gain root privileges and overwrite any file on the filesystem on SELinux-enabled systems. The high severity flaw, tracked […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2017
Linux Shishiga malware, a threat in dangerous evolution

Malware researchers from security firm ESET have discovered a new Linux threat dubbed Shishiga malware targeting systems in the wild. Malware researchers from ESET have discovered a new Linux malware dubbed Linux/Shishiga targeting systems in the wild. The Linux/Shishiga malware uses four different protocols (SSH, Telnet, HTTP and BitTorrent) implements a modular architecture by using Lua scripts. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2017
Brickerbot botnet, the thingbot that permanently destroys IoT devices

Security researchers have spotted a new threat dubbed Brickerbot botnet that causes permanent damage to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Months ago we anticipated the possible spike in the number of IoT botnets, at the beginning it was Mirai, but later other dangerous thingbot appeared in the wild such as the Leet Botnet and the Amnesia botnet. Now a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2017
CVE-2017-2636 Linux kernel flaw was spotted after seven years and quickly fixed

A flaw recently fixed in the Linux kernel tracked as CVE-2017-2636 might have been exploited to gain privilege escalation or cause a DoS condition. The security expert Alexander Popov from Positive Technologies has discovered a race condition in the n_hdlc driver that might be exploited by attackers for privilege escalation in the operating system. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-2636, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 22, 2017
CVE-2017-6074 – a new 11-year old Linux Kernel flaw discovered

Security expert discovered a new 11-year old privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-6074, in the Linux kernel. A new privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-6074, has been discovered in the Linux kernel and the astonishing new is that it is an 11-year old flaw. The local privilege-escalation vulnerability, discovered by security researcher Andrey Konovalov, affects all the major […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2017
Several thousand Linux devices infected with the Linux.Proxy.10 Trojan

According to the security firm Dr. Web , thousands of Linux-based devices have already been infected with the Linux.Proxy.10 Trojan. A new Trojan dubbed Linux.Proxy.10 is targeting Linux-based devices transforming them into proxy servers that are used by attackers to protect their anonymity while launching cyber attacks from the hacked systems. Linux.Proxy.10 was first discovered by […]

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