Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2020
Juniper Networks addressed many issues in its products

Juniper Networks addressed several vulnerabilities in its firewalls, most of them can be exploited by attackers for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Juniper Networks addressed several vulnerabilities in its products, most of them can be exploited by attackers for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Half a dozen of the flaws are DoS issues that have been rated high severity. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2020
Researchers found allegedly intentional backdoors in FTTH devices from Chinese vendor C-Data

Two security researchers have found undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 FTTH devices from Chinese vendor C-Data. Two security researchers have discovered undocumented Telnet admin account accounts in 29 Fiber-To-The-Home (FTTH) devices from Chinese vendor C-Data. The CDATA OLTs are sold under different brands, including Cdata, OptiLink, V-SOL CN, and BLIY. Some of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2020
KingComposer fixes a reflected XSS impacting 100,000 WordPress sites

An XSS vulnerability in the KingComposer page builder for WordPress impacts 100,000 websites using the WordPress plugin.  Researchers at Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-15299, in the KingComposer WordPress plugin that potentially impacts 100,000 websites.  KingComposer a fast drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress websites, which comes complete with top-notch features embedded and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2020
Zoom is working on a patch for a zero-day in Windows client

Researchers from cyber-security firm ACROS Security have disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows client of the popular Zoom video conferencing platform. Researchers from cyber-security firm ACROS Security have disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows client of the video conferencing software Zoom. The vulnerability is a remote code execution issue, which could allow the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2020
15 billion credentials available in the cybercrime marketplaces

More than 15 billion username and passwords are available on cybercrime marketplaces, including over 5 billion unique credentials, states the experts. A report published by security firm Digital Shadows revealed the availability of more than 15 billion credentials shared on cybercrime marketplaces, paste sites, file sharing services, and code sharing websites. Over the past few […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2020
Palo Alto Networks addresses another high severity issue in PAN-OS devices

Palo Alto Networks addressed a new severe vulnerability in the PAN-OS GlobalProtect portal that impacts PAN next-generation firewalls. Recently Palo Alto Network addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-2021, affecting the PAN-OS operating system that powers its next-generation firewall. The flaw could allow unauthenticated network-based attackers to bypass authentication, it has been rated as critical severity and received a […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2020
Google Tsunami vulnerability scanner is now open-source

Google announced that its Tsunami vulnerability scanner for large-scale enterprise networks is going to be open-sourced. Google has decided to release as open-source a vulnerability scanner for large-scale enterprise networks named Tsunami. “We have released the Tsunami security scanning engine to the open source communities. We hope that the engine can help other organizations protect their users’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2020
DOJ indicts Fxmsp hacker for selling access to hacked businesses

The US Department of Justice has indicted a hacker named Fxmsp for hacking over three hundred organizations worldwide and selling access to their networks. The US Department of Justice has indicted a hacker that goes online with the moniker Fxmsp for hacking over three hundred organizations worldwide and selling access to their networks. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2020
Threat actors found a way to bypass mitigation F5 BIG-IP CVE-2020-5902 flaw

Researchers have found a way to bypass F5 Networks mitigation for the actively exploited BIG-IP vulnerability, and hackers already used it. Researchers have found a way to bypass one of the mitigations proposed by F5 Networks for the actively exploited BIG-IP vulnerability. Unfortunately, threat actors in the wild were already using the bypass technique before […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 07, 2020
Project Freta, a free service that allows finding malware in OS memory snapshots

Microsoft launched Project Freta, a free service that allows users to find malware, including rootkit, in operating system memory snapshots. Microsoft has unveiled a new project, dubbed Project Freta, for the discovery of malicious code in operating system memory snapshots. The Project Freta is a cloud-based service that allows users to collect forensic evidence of attacks […]