Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2020
Chinese authorities continue operations against unauthorized VPN services that are very popular in the country. China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying and persecution of VPN services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. The Great Firewall project already blocked access to more hundreds of the world’s 1,000 top […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2020
The FBI has seized the WeLeakInfo.com websites for selling subscriptions to data that were exposed in data breaches. WeLeakInfo.com is a data breach notification service that allows its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. The service was claiming a database of over 12 billion records from over 10,000 data breaches. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2020
A researcher has publicly released some proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits and technical details for flaws in Cisco’s Data Center Network Manager (DCNM). Early this month, Cisco released security updates for its Cisco’s Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) product that address several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. All the vulnerabilities were reported to Cisco through Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) and Accenture’s iDefense service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2020
Security experts from Sophos discovered 25 Android apps on the official Google Play that were involved in financial fraud, 600 million affected. Security researchers from Sophos discovered a set of so-called fleeceware apps that have been installed by more than 600 million Android users. Fleeceware apps are malicious applications uploaded to the official Google Play […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2020
Researchers published proof-of-concept (PoC) code exploits for a recently-patched CVE-2020-0601 flaw in the Windows operating system reported by NSA. Security researchers have published two proof-of-concept (PoC) code exploits for the recently-patched CVE-2020-0601 vulnerability that has been reported to Microsoft by the US National Security Agency (NSA). Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for January 2020 address a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2020
The cybercrime group behind Satan ransomware and other malware seems to be involved in the development of a new threat named 5ss5c. The threat actors behind the Satan, DBGer and Lucky ransomware and likely Iron ransomware, is back with a new piece of malware named ‘5ss5c’. The Bart Blaze believes that the threat actors have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2020
VMware has released security updates to address a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Tools version 10 for Windows. VMware has released VMware Tools 11.0.0 that addresses a local privilege escalation issue in Tools 10.x.y tracked as CVE-2020-3941. The issue, classified as a race condition flaw that could be exploited by an attacker to access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2020
49 million user records from US data broker LimeLeads were available for sale on a hacking forum. 49 million user records from US data broker LimeLeads were available for sale on a hacking forum, the data were exposed on an Elasticsearch server. Exposed LimeLeads data contains full name, title, user email, employer/company name, company address, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2020
Microsoft has released a security update to address “a broad cryptographic vulnerability” that is impacting its Windows operating system. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for January 2020 address a total of 49 vulnerabilities in various products, including a serious flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-0601, in the core cryptographic component of Windows 10, Server 2016 and 2019 editions. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2020
Tech giant Cisco has recently addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its Webex and IOS XE Software products. Cisco Systems has released security fixes for two high-severity vulnerabilities in its products, including a remote code execution flaw in the Webex video conferencing platform. The Webex flaw resides in the web-based management interface of Cisco Webex Video […]
