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Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2024
US DoJ dismantled remote IT worker fraud schemes run by North Korea

The U.S. DoJ arrested a Tennessee man for running a “laptop farm” that enabled North Korea-linked IT workers to obtain remote jobs with American companies. The U.S. Justice Department arrested Matthew Isaac Knoot (38) from Nashville (Tennessee) for operating a “laptop farm” that facilitated North Korea-linked IT workers in obtaining remote jobs with American companies. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2024
A FreeBSD flaw could allow remote code execution, patch it now!

FreeBSD Project maintainers addressed a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that could allow remote code execution with elevated privileges. The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released urgent security updates to address a high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-7589, (CVSS score of 7.4) in OpenSSH. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code with elevated […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2024
EastWind campaign targets Russian organizations with sophisticated backdoors

A campaign tracked as EastWind is targeting Russian government and IT organizations with PlugY and GrewApacha Backdoors. In late July 2024, Kaspersky researchers detected a series of targeted cyberattacks against the Russian government and IT organizations. Kaspersky named this campaign has EastWind. Threat actors sent phishing emails with RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2024
Microsoft found OpenVPN bugs that can be chained to achieve RCE and LPE

Microsoft found four bugs in OpenVPN that could be chained to achieve remote code execution and local privilege escalation. During the Black Hat USA 2024 conference, Microsoft researchers disclosed multiple medium-severity bugs in the open-source project OpenVPN that could be chained to achieve remote code execution (RCE) and local privilege escalation (LPE). OpenVPN is an […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2024
Foreign nation-state actors hacked Donald Trump’s campaign

Donald Trump’s campaign reported that its emails were hacked by “foreign sources hostile to the United States.” Donald Trump’s presidential campaign announced it was hacked, a spokesman attributes the attack to foreign sources hostile to the United States. The presidential campaign believes that Iran-linked threat actors may be involved in the cyber operation that is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2024
Security Affairs newsletter Round 484 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Is the INC ransomware gang behind the attack on McLaren hospitals? Crooks took control of a cow milking […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2024
ADT disclosed a data breach that impacted more than 30,000 customers

Physical security firm ADT disclosed a data breach, threat actors stole information from 30,000 customers and leaked it. ADT is a provider of alarm and physical security systems, it employs more than 13,000 professionals in over 150 locations throughout the U.S.. The company, which has over 6 million customers, disclosed a data breach following a […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2024
Is the INC ransomware gang behind the attack on McLaren hospitals?

A INC Ransom ransomware attack this week disrupted IT and phone systems at McLaren Health Care hospitals. On Tuesday, an INC Ransom ransomware attack hit the McLaren Health Care hospitals and disrupted their IT and phone systems. The organizations did not disclose details about the attack, however Bleeping Computer noticed that employees at McLaren Bay […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2024
Sonos smart speakers flaw allowed to eavesdrop on users

NCC Group discovered vulnerabilities in Sonos smart speakers, including a flaw that could have allowed to eavesdrop on users. Researchers from NCC Group have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Sonos smart speakers, including a flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-50809, that could have allowed eavesdropping on users. The researchers have disclosed the vulnerabilities during the BLACK HAT USA […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2024
CISA adds Apache OFBiz and Android kernel bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apache OFBiz and Android kernel bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an Android Kernel Remote Code Execution flaw (CVE-2024-36971) and an Apache OFBiz Path Traversal issue (CVE-2024-32113) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the descriptions of the […]