Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2024
A new flaw in OpenSSH can lead to remote code execution

A vulnerability affects some versions of the OpenSSH secure networking suite, it can potentially lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability CVE-2024-6409 (CVSS score: 7.0) impacts select versions of the OpenSSH secure networking suite, it can be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE). The issue is a possible race condition in cleanup_exit() in openssh’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2024
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2024 fixed 2 actively exploited zero-days

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2024 addressed 139 flaws, including two actively exploited zero-days. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for July 2024 addressed 139 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; .NET and Visual Studio; Azure; Defender for IoT; SQL Server; Windows Hyper-V; Bitlocker and Secure(?) Boot; Remote Desktop; and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2024
U.S. CISA adds Microsoft Windows and Rejetto HTTP File Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows and Rejetto HTTP File Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Below are the descriptions of the flaws added to the KEV catalog: CVE-2024-23692 (CVSS score […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2024
Evolve Bank data breach impacted over 7.6 million individuals

The Lockbit ransomware attack on Evolve Bank has compromised the personal information of over 7.6 million individuals. At the end of June, the LockBit gang announced that it had breached the systems of the Federal Reserve of the United States and exfiltrated 33 TB of sensitive data, including “Americans’ banking secrets.” Despite the announcement, data leaked data […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2024
More than 31 million customer email addresses exposed following Neiman Marcus data breach

The recent data breach suffered by the American luxury department store chain Neiman Marcus has exposed more than 31 million customer email addresses. In May 2024, the American luxury retailer and department store chain Neiman Marcus disclosed a data breach following the security breach of the cloud-based data warehousing company Snowflake. The luxury retailer disclosed […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2024
Avast released a decryptor for DoNex Ransomware and its predecessors

Avast developed and released a decryptor for the DoNex ransomware family that allows victims to recover their files for free. Avast researchers identified a cryptographic flaw in the DoNex ransomware and its predecessors that allowed them to develop a decryptor. The experts revealed the weakness during the Recon 2024 conference. Avast also released a decryptor […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2024
RockYou2024 compilation containing 10 billion passwords was leaked online

Threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. The Cybernews researchers reported that threat actors leaked the largest password compilation ever, known as RockYou2024, on a popular hacking forum. The compilation (“rockyou2024.txt”) contains 9,948,575,739 unique plaintext passwords was posted on July 4th by a user with the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2024
Critical Ghostscript flaw exploited in the wild. Patch it now!

Threat actors are exploiting Ghostscript vulnerability CVE-2024-29510 to bypass the sandbox and achieve remote code execution. Threat actors are actively exploiting a Ghostscript vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-29510, that can allow them to escape the –dSAFER sandbox and achieve remote code execution. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF files. It is […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2024
Apple removed 25 VPN apps from the App Store in Russia following Moscow’s requests

Apple removed several virtual private network (VPN) apps from its App Store in Russia following a request from the Russian Government. Russia is tightening its citizens’ control over Internet access and forced Apple to remove several virtual private network (VPN) apps from its App Store in Russia following a request from Russia’s state communications watchdog […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2024
CISA adds Cisco NX-OS Command Injection bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco NX-OS Command Injection bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco NX-OS Command Injection Vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week, Cisco addressed an NX-OS zero-day, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score […]