Security

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2024
Pro-Russia group hit Swiss govt sites after Zelensky visit in Davos

Switzerland believes that the attack claimed by pro-Russian group NoName that hit the government websites is retaliation for Zelensky’s presence at Davos. Switzerland believes that the cyberattack carried out by pro-Russia group NoName disrupted access to some government websites, following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Davos. “We took a look at Switzerland, where the World Economic […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2024
Github rotated credentials after the discovery of a vulnerability

GitHub rotated some credentials after the discovery of a flaw that allowed access to the environment variables of a production container. After GitHub became aware of a vulnerability through its bug bounty program, the Microsoft-owned company rotated some credentials. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-0200 (CVSS score 7.2), allowed access to the environment variables of a production container […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2024
Google fixed the first actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2024

Google has addressed the first Chrome zero-day vulnerability of the year that is actively being exploited in the wild. Google has released security updates to address the first Chrome zero-day vulnerability of the year that is actively being exploited in the wild. The high-serverity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-0519, is an out of bounds memory access […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2024
Atlassian fixed critical RCE in older Confluence versions

Atlassian warns of a critical remote code execution issue in Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server that impacts older versions. Atlassian warns of a critical remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-22527 (CVSS score 10.0), in Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server that impacts older versions. The vulnerability is a template injection vulnerability that can […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2024
VMware fixed a critical flaw in Aria Automation. Patch it now!

VMware warns customers of a critical vulnerability impacting its Aria Automation multi-cloud infrastructure automation platform. VMware Aria Automation (formerly vRealize Automation) is a modern cloud automation platform that simplifies and streamlines the deployment, management, and governance of cloud infrastructure and applications. It provides a unified platform for automating tasks across multiple cloud environments, including VMware […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2024
Experts warn of a vulnerability affecting Bosch BCC100 Thermostat

Researchers warn of high-severity vulnerability affecting Bosch BCC100 thermostats. Researchers from Bitdefender discovered a high-severity vulnerability affecting Bosch BCC100 thermostats. The researchers discovered a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-49722 (CVSS score: 8.3), that can be exploited by an attacker on the same network to replace the device firmware with a rogue version. The vulnerability was reported […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2024
Over 178,000 SonicWall next-generation firewalls (NGFW) online exposed to hack

Researchers from Bishop Fox found over 178,000 SonicWall next-generation firewalls (NGFW) publicly exploitable. SonicWall next-generation firewall (NGFW) series 6 and 7 devices are affected by two unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-22274 and CVE-2023-0656, that could potentially lead to remote code execution. Despite a proof-of-concept exploit for the flaw CVE-2023-0656 was publicly released, the vendor is not […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2024
Attackers target Apache Hadoop and Flink to deliver cryptominers

Researchers devised a new attack that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency miners. Cybersecurity researchers from cyber security firm Aqua have uncovered a new attack targeting Apache Hadoop and Flink applications. The attacks exploit misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink to deploy cryptocurrency cryptocurrency miners. The researchers reported that the attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2024
GitLab fixed a critical zero-click account hijacking flaw

GitLab addressed two critical flaws impacting both the Community and Enterprise Edition, including a critical zero-click account hijacking vulnerability GitLab has released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities impacting both the Community and Enterprise Edition. The most critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS score 10), is an account takeover via Password Reset. The flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2024
Juniper Networks fixed a critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches

Juniper Networks fixed a critical pre-auth remote code execution (RCE) flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-21591, in its SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches. Juniper Networks released security updates to address a critical pre-auth remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-21591, that resides in SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches. The vulnerability resides in […]