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Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2024
Report claims that Serbian authorities abused Cellebrite tool to install NoviSpy spyware

Researchers warn of previously undetected surveillance spyware, named NoviSpy, that was found infecting a Serbian journalist’s phone. In February 2024, Serbian journalist Slaviša Milanov was summoned to a police station after a routine traffic stop. After the police released him, Milanov noticed suspicious changes to his phone settings, such as disabled data and Wi-Fi. Then […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2024
Palo Alto Networks confirmed active exploitation of recently disclosed zero-day

Palo Alto Networks confirmed active exploitation of a zero-day in its PAN-OS firewall and released new indicators of compromise (IoCs). Last week, Palo Alto Networks warned customers to limit access to their next-gen firewall management interface due to a potential remote code execution vulnerability (CVSSv4.0 Base Score: 9.3) in PAN-OS. The cybersecurity company had no […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 13, 2024
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2024 fix two actively exploited zero-days

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2024 addressed 89 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-day flaws. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for November 2024 fixed 89 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; Azure; .NET and Visual Studio; LightGBM; Exchange Server; SQL Server; TorchGeo; Hyper-V; and Windows VMSwitch. Four of these […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2024
PTZOptics cameras zero-days actively exploited in the wild

Hackers are exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-8956 and CVE-2024-8957, in PTZOptics cameras. Threat actors are attempting to exploit two zero-day vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-8956 and CVE-2024-8957, in PTZOptics pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) live streaming cameras, GretNoise researchers warn. GreyNoise discovered the two flaws while investigating the use of an exploit detected by its LLM-powered threat-hunting tool Sift. The company discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2024
Samsung zero-day flaw actively exploited in the wild

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers warn of a Samsung zero-day vulnerability that is exploited in the wild. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a Samsung zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-44068 (CVSS score of 8.1), which is exploited in the wild. The vulnerability is a use-after-free issue, attackers could exploit the flaw to escalate […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2024
Three new Ivanti CSA zero-day actively exploited in attacks

Software company Ivanti released security patches for three new CSA zero-day vulnerabilities actively exploited in attacks. Ivanti warned of three new security vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-9379, CVE-2024-9380, and CVE-2024-9381) in its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) that are actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Below are the descriptions of the three vulnerabilities: Threat actors are chaining these […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2024
Qualcomm fixed a zero-day exploited limited, targeted attacks

Qualcomm warns of 20 flaws in its products, including a potential zero-day vulnerability, in the DSP service that impacts multiple chipsets. Qualcomm addressed 20 vulnerabilities in its products, including a potential zero-day issue tracked as CVE-2024-43047 (CVSS score 7.8). The vulnerability stems from a use-after-free bug that could lead to memory corruption. The zero-day vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2024
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2024 addressed four actively exploited zero-days

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2024 addressed 79 flaws, including four actively exploited zero-day flaws. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2024 addressed 79 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; Azure; Dynamics Business Central; SQL Server; Windows Hyper-V; Mark of the Web (MOTW); and the Remote Desktop Licensing […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2024
Corona Mirai botnet spreads via AVTECH CCTV zero-day 

An instance of the Corona Mirai botnet spreads via AVTECH CCTV zero-day and multiple previously known vulnerabilities. Akamai’s Security Intelligence and Response Team (SIRT) has detected a botnet campaign exploiting multiple previously known vulnerabilities and a newly discovered zero-day, tracked as CVE-2024-7029 (CVSS score: 8.7), in AVTECH CCTV cameras. The flaw is a command injection issue […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2024
China-linked APT Volt Typhoon exploited a zero-day in Versa Director

China-linked APT group Volt Typhoon exploited a zero-day flaw in Versa Director to upload a custom webshell in target networks. China-linked APT Volt Typhoon exploited a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-39717, in Versa Director, to deploy a custom webshell on breached networks. Versa Director is a centralized management and orchestration platform used primarily by Internet […]