Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2019
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! At least 23 Texas local governments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2019
DOJ charged 80 people, most of them are Nigerian nationals, with participating in massive BEC and romance scams that collected millions of dollars. Federal authorities arrested 80 people accused participating in massive BEC and romance scams that raked millions of dollars from victims worldwide. The suspected fraudsters, many of whom are Nigerian nationals, prosecutors say, who […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2019
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning of an active IRS impersonation scam campaign sending spam emails to distribute malware. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued an alert to warn taxpayers of a new scam campaign distributing malware. Last week the US agency has received several reports from taxpayers that received spam messages with “Automatic Income […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2019
Researchers at Wordfence reported an ongoing hacking campaign exploiting security flaws in some WordPress plugins. Researchers from Wordfence uncovered an ongoing hacking campaign exploiting security vulnerabilities in some WordPress plugins to redirect visitors to websites under the control of the attackers. The campaign specifically targeted flaws in WordPress plugins developed by the developer NicDark (now […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2019
Cisco has released a hardware tool, called 4CAN, developed to help researchers to discover vulnerabilities in automotive systems. Computer systems in modern vehicles are very complex, they contain a huge quantity of devices and units that exchange a lot of data in real-time. These components communicate via the vehicle’s network, dubbed Controller Area Network (CAN). […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2019
Some versions of the Squid web proxy cache server built with Basic Authentication features are affected by a heap buffer overflow vulnerability. The heap buffer overflow security flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-12527, could be exploited by attackers to trigger DoS condition and also to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable servers. The flaw received a high severity CVSS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Researchers at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) tracked as CVE-2019-6177. Security experts at Pen Test Partners (PTP) discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC) that exists since 2011. “A vulnerability reported in Lenovo Solution Center version 03.12.003, which is no longer supported, could allow log […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Experts at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft Office and Adobe vulnerabilities to infect systems. Malware researchers at Trend Micro discovered a new variant of the Asruex Trojan that exploits old Microsoft Office and Adobe vulnerabilities to infect Windows and Mac systems. Asruex first appeared in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Hackers are exploiting recently disclosed flaws in enterprise virtual private network (VPN) products from Fortinet and Pulse Secure. The popular cybersecurity expert Kevin Beaumont has observed threat actors attempting to exploit the CVE-2018-13379 in the FortiOS SSL VPN web portal and CVE-2019-11510 flaw in Pulse Connect Secure. The CVE-2018-13379 is a path traversal vulnerability in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2019
Cisco provided updates for security advisories for three flaws affecting Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches patched in early August. Cisco has updated security advisories for three vulnerability in Cisco Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches that have been patched in early August. The three vulnerabilities were reported by the security researcher Pedro Ribeiro, […]
