Security News

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2024
A cyberattack hit the US healthcare giant Ascension

A cyberattack hit the US Healthcare giant Ascension and is causing disruption of the systems at hospitals in the country. Ascension is one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, ranking second in the United States by the number of hospitals as of 2019. The organization was hit by a ransomware attack that severely impacted operations at hospitals […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2024
Google fixes fifth actively exploited Chrome zero-day this year

Since the start of the year, Google released an update to fix the fifth actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser. Google this week released security updates to address a zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-4671, in Chrome browser. The vulnerability is the fifth zero-day flaw in the Google browser that is exploited in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2024
Citrix warns customers to update PuTTY version installed on their XenCenter system manually

Citrix urges customers to manually address a PuTTY SSH client flaw that could allow attackers to steal a XenCenter admin’s private SSH key. Versions of XenCenter for Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 CU1 LTSR used PuTTY, a third-party component, for SSH connections to guest VMs. However, PuTTY inclusion was deprecated with XenCenter version 8.2.6, and any versions […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2024
Dell discloses data breach impacting millions of customers

Dell disclosed a security breach that exposed millions of customers’ names and physical mailing addresses. IT giant Dell suffered a data breach exposing customers’ names and physical addresses, the company notified impacted individuals. The company launched an investigation into the incident that involved a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of customer […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2024
Mirai botnet also spreads through the exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure bugs

Threat actors exploit recently disclosed Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vulnerabilities to deploy the Mirai botnet. Researchers from Juniper Threat Labs reported that threat actors are exploiting recently disclosed Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) vulnerabilities CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887 to drop the payload of the Mirai botnet. In early January, the software firm reported that threat actors are exploiting two […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2024
Zscaler is investigating data breach claims

Cybersecurity firm Zscaler is investigating claims of a data breach after hackers offered access to its network. Cybersecurity firm Zscaler is investigating allegations of a data breach following reports that threat actors are offering for sale access to its network. The company confirmed that there is no impact or compromise to its customer, production and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2024
Experts warn of two BIG-IP Next Central Manager flaws that allow device takeover

Two high-severity vulnerabilities in BIG-IP Next Central Manager can be exploited to gain admin control and create hidden accounts on any managed assets. F5 has addressed two high-severity vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2024-26026 and CVE-2024-21793, in BIG-IP Next Central Manager that can lead to device takeover. BIG-IP Next Central Manager (NCM) is a centralized management […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2024
New TunnelVision technique can bypass the VPN encapsulation

TunnelVision is a new VPN bypass technique that enables threat actors to spy on users’ traffic bypassing the VPN encapsulation. Leviathan Security researchers recently identified a novel attack technique, dubbed TunnelVision, to bypass VPN encapsulation. A threat actor can use this technique to force a target user’s traffic off their VPN tunnel using built-in features […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2024
LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin actively exploited in the wild

Threat actors are exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress to take over web sites. WPScan researchers reported that threat actors are exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress. LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress (LSCWP) is an all-in-one site acceleration plugin, featuring an exclusive server-level cache and a collection […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2024
Most Tinyproxy Instances are potentially vulnerable to flaw CVE-2023-49606

A critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the Tinyproxy service potentially impacted 50,000 Internet-Exposing hosts. Researchers from Cisco Talos reported a use-after-free vulnerability in the HTTP Connection Headers parsing of Tinyproxy 1.11.1 and Tinyproxy 1.10.0. The issue is tracked as CVE-2023-49606 and received a CVSS score of 9.8. The exploitation of the issue can potentially lead […]