Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2021
FBI log into web shells that hackers installed on Microsoft Exchange email servers across the US and removed the malicious code used by threat actors. A US judge granted the FBI the power to log into web shells that were injected by nation-state hackers on Microsoft Exchange servers across the US and remove the malware, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2021
The Swedish Sports Confederation organization was compromised in 2017-18 by hackers working for Russian military intelligence, officials said. The Swedish Sports Confederation is the umbrella organisation of the Swedish sports movement, it was hacked by Russian military intelligence in a campaign conducted between December 2017 and May 2018, officials said. In the same period, Russia-linked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2021
Adobe has addressed security vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe Bridge, and RoboHelp. Adobe has fixed ten security vulnerabilities in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe Bridge, and RoboHelp. Seven vulnerabilities have been rated as critical, some of them could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Adobe has released two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2021
The exploit code for a remote code execution vulnerability affecting QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices that run the Surveillance Station video management system is available online. An exploit for a remote code execution vulnerability affecting QNAP network-attached storage (NAS) devices was publicly released. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-2501, is a stack-based buffer overflow issue that affects […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2021
An Indian security researcher has published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a vulnerability impacting Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers. The Indian security researcher Rajvardhan Agarwal has publicly released a proof-of-concept exploit code for a recently discovered vulnerability that affects Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and other Chromium-based browsers (i.e. Opera, Brave). The researchers uploaded the PoC […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2021
Pulse Secure VPN users were not able to login due to the expiration of a code signing certificate used to digitally sign and verify software components. Pulse Secure VPN users were not able to login after a code signing certificate used to digitally sign and verify software components has expired. Multiple users have reported on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2021
President Joe Biden has appointed two former senior NSA officials for two prominent cyber roles in his administration. President Joe Biden has assigned to two former senior National Security Agency (NSA) officials key cyber roles in his administration. The first name was John Chris Inglis, who was nominated as the first-ever National Cyber Director, a role […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2021
Microsoft released as open-source the ‘CyberBattleSim Python-based toolkit which is an Enterprise Environment Simulator. Microsoft has recently announced the open-source availability of the Python-based enterprise environment simulator. named ‘CyberBattleSim.’ “CyberBattleSim is an experimentation research platform to investigate the interaction of automated agents operating in a simulated abstract enterprise network environment. The simulation provides a high-level […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2021
LinkedIn has formally denied that the recently disclosed data leak was caused by a security breach, data were obtained via web scraping. LinkedIn has issued a formal statement to deny that the recent leak that exposed the account details of more than 500 million of its registered users was caused by a security breach. A […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2021
Fitch Ratings is warning that cyberattacks could pose a risk to water and sewer utilities potentially impacting their ability to repay debt. Fitch Ratings Inc. is an American credit rating agency and is one of the “Big Three credit rating agencies”, the other two being Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. It is one of the […]
