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Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2023
Chinese threat actors stole around 60,000 emails from US State Department in Microsoft breach

China-linked threat actors stole around 60,000 emails from U.S. State Department after breaching Microsoft’s Exchange email platform in May. China-linked hackers who breached Microsoft’s email platform in May have stolen tens of thousands of emails from U.S. State Department accounts, a Senate staffer told Reuters this week. During a briefing by U.S. State Department IT officials, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2023
Misconfigured WBSC server leaks thousands of passports

The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) left open a data repository exposing nearly 50,000 files, some of which were highly sensitive, the Cybernews research team has discovered. On June 5th, our researchers discovered a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) bucket storing nearly 48,000 files. A bucket is a container for storing data within AWS’s cloud […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2023
CISA adds JBoss RichFaces Framework flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

US CISA added the flaw CVE-2018-14667 in Red Hat JBoss RichFaces Framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the critical flaw CVE-2018-14667 (CVSS score 9.8) affecting Red Hat JBoss RichFaces Framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The issue is an Expression Language (EL) injection via the UserResource resource, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2023
Cisco urges to patch actively exploited IOS zero-day CVE-2023-20109

Cisco released security updates for an actively exploited zero-day flaw (CVE-2023-20109) that resides in the GET VPN feature of IOS and IOS XE software. Cisco warned customers to install security updates to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20109 (CVS 6.6), that resides in IOS and IOS XE software. The vulnerability resides in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2023
Dark Angels Team ransomware group hit Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls International suffered a ransomware attack that impacted the operations of the company and its subsidiaries. Johnson Controls International plc is a multinational conglomerate with a diversified portfolio of products and services primarily focused on building technologies and solutions. The company provides HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), solutions for building automation, fire and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2023
GOOGLE FIXED THE FIFTH CHROME ZERO-DAY OF 2023

Google released security updates to address a new actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5217, in the Chrome browser. Google on Wednesday released security updates to address a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser which is tracked as CVE-2023-5217. The CVE-2023-5217 is a high-severity heap buffer overflow that affects vp8 encoding in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2023
Russian zero-day broker is willing to pay $20M for zero-day exploits for iPhones and Android devices

A Russian zero-day broker is willing to pay $20 million for zero-day exploits for iPhones and Android mobile devices. The Russian zero-day broker firm Operation Zero is increasing payouts for top-tier mobile exploits. The company is willing to pay up to $20,000,000 for zero-day exploits for iPhone and Android devices. The Russian company pointed out […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2023
China-linked APT BlackTech was spotted hiding in Cisco router firmware

US and Japanese authorities warn that a China-linked APT BlackTech planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware to hack the businesses in both countries. US and Japanese intelligence, law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies warn of a China-linked APT, tracked as BlackTech (aka Palmerworm, Temp.Overboard, Circuit Panda, and Radio Panda), that planted backdoor in Cisco router firmware […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2023
Watch out! CVE-2023-5129 in libwebp library affects millions applications

Google assigned a maximum score to a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-5129, in the libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format. Google assigned a new CVE identifier for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-5129 (CVSS score 10,0), in the libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format. The flaw was initially tracked […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2023
DarkBeam leaks billions of email and password combinations

DarkBeam left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. The leaked logins present cybercriminals with almost limitless attack capabilities. DarkBeam, a digital risk protection firm, left an Elasticsearch and Kibana interface unprotected, exposing records with user emails and passwords from previously reported and non-reported data breaches. According […]