Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2020
Threat actors are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the popular Easy WP SMTP WordPress plugin installed on more than 500,000 sites. Hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the popular Easy WP SMTP WordPress plugin to reset passwords for admin accounts. The SMTP WordPress plugin is installed on more than 500,000 sites, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2020
Interview with Massimiliano Brolli, Head of TIM Red Team Research, which is a team of experts that focus on zero-day hunting. For some time now we have been witnessing a series of undocumented vulnerabilities issued by a TIM IT Security laboratory called Red Team Research RTR, which already has 31 new CVEs to date in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2020
Researcher discovers a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 while he was working on a Windows security tool. The French security researcher Clément Labro discovered a zero-day vulnerability was discovered while the security researcher was working on an update Windows security tool. The researcher was developing his own Windows privilege escalation enumeration […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2020
VMware discloses a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2020-4006) in multiple VMware Workspace One components and released a workaround to address it. VMware has released a workaround to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-4006, that affects multiple VMware Workspace One components. The flaw could be exploited by attackers to execute commands on the host Linux […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2020
Google has released Chrome version 86.0.4240.198 that addresses two additional zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in the wild. Google has addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities, actively exploited in the wild, with the release of Chrome version 86.0.4240.198. The IT giant has fixed a total of five Chrome zero-day vulnerabilities in only three weeks. Both zero-day flaws, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2020
Google released Chrome 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix 10 security vulnerabilities, including an RCE zero-day exploited in the wild. Google has released Chrome 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, Mac, and Linux that address ten security vulnerabilities including a remote code execution (RCE) zero-day (CVE-2020-16009) exploited by threat actors in the wild. The RCE is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2020
Google researchers disclosed today a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows operating system that is currently under active exploitation. Security researchers from Google have disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows operating system, tracked as CVE-2020-17087, that is currently under active exploitation. Ben Hawkes, team lead for Google Project Zero team, revealed on Twitter that the vulnerability […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2020
Google has released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 that also addresses the CVE-2020-15999 flaw which is an actively exploited zero-day. Google has released Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 that includes security fixes for several issues, including a patch for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-15999. The CVE-2020-15999 flaw is a memory corruption bug that resides in the FreeType font rendering library, which is included […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2020
Security researchers provided technical details about an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint that has been exploiting two zero-days in Tenda routers Security researchers at Netlab, the network security division Qihoo 360, have published a report that details an IoT botnet dubbed Ttint. The experts are monitoring the Mirai-based botnet since November 2019 and observed it exploiting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2020
A researcher published details and proof-of-concept exploit code for a zero-day RCE vulnerability in the popular forum CMS vBulletin. The researcher Amir Etemadieh has published technical details and proof-of-concept exploit code for a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in vBulletin, the popular forum software. The new vulnerability is a bypass for a the security patch […]
