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Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2021
Popular NPM package Pac-Resolver affected by a critical flaw

Experts found a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-23406, in the popular NPM package ‘Pac-Resolver‘ that has millions of downloads every week. The development team behind a popular NPM package called ‘Pac-Resolver‘ for the JavaScript programming language fixed a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-23406. The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers to run […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2021
Apple fixes actively exploited FORCEDENTRY zero-day flaws

Apple released security patches to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS that are actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Apple rolled out security patches to fix a couple of zero-day flaws in iOS and macOS (CVE-2021-30860, CVE-2021-30858), the IT giant also warns its customers that these issues are actively exploited in attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2021
New Spook.Js attack allows to bypass Google Chrome Site Isolation protections

Spook.js is a new side-channel attack on modern processors that can allow bypassing Site Isolation protections implemented in Google Chrome. Boffins devised a transient side-channel attack on modern processors, “Spook.js,” that can be abused by threat actors to bypass Site Isolation protections implemented in Google Chrome and Chromium browsers. The technique allows in some cases to steal sensitive […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2021
BlackMatter ransomware gang hit Technology giant Olympus

Technology giant Olympus announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack and is currently investigating the extent of the incident. Olympus issued a statement to announce that its European, Middle East and Africa computer network was hit by a ransomware attack. “Upon detection of suspicious activity, we immediately mobilized a specialized response team including […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2021
The new maxtrilha trojan is being disseminated and targeting several banks

A new banking trojan dubbed maxtrilha (due to its encryption key) has been discovered in the last few days and targeting customers of European and South American banks. The new maxtrilha trojan is being disseminated and targeting several banks around the world. Criminals are constantly creating variants of popular banking trojans, keeping in mind the same modus operandi but […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2021
Department of Justice and Constitutional Development of South Africa hit by a ransomware attack

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development of South Africa was hit by a ransomware attack that crippled bail services. A ransomware attack hit the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development of South Africa, multiple services, including email and bail services have been impacted. The incident did not affect child maintenance payments for the month […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 331

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. Cisco released security patches for High-Severity flaws in IOS XR software New SOVA Android Banking trojan is […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2021
Cisco released security patches for High-Severity flaws in IOS XR software

Cisco fixed multiple high-severity flaws in the IOS XR software that can allow attackers to trigger a DoS condition, elevate privileges, overwrite/read arbitrary files. Cisco released security updates to address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the IOS XR software that can be exploited to conduct multiple malicious activities, such as rebooting devices and elevate privileges. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2021
New SOVA Android Banking trojan is rapidly growing

SOVA is a new Android banking trojan that targets banking applications, cryptocurrency wallets, and shopping apps from the U.S. and Spain. Researchers from cybersecurity firm ThreatFabric have spotted in the beginning of August a new Android banking trojan, dubbed SOVA, that targets banking applications, cryptocurrency wallets, and shopping apps from the U.S. and Spain. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2021
Microsoft fixes Azurescape flaw in Azure Container Instances

Microsoft has fixed the Azurescape issue, a flaw in Azure Container Instances that allows to take over containers of other platform users. Microsoft has addressed a vulnerability in Azure Container Instances (ACI) called Azurescape that could have allowed a malicious container to take over containers belonging to other users. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability […]