Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2023
A member of the Lapsus$ cyber extortion group, Arion Kurtaj, has been sentenced to an indefinite hospital order. The UK Southwark Crown Court has sentenced Arion Kurtaj, a prominent member of the international cyber extortion gang Lapsus$, to an indefinite hospital order. Over the years, the Lapsus$ gang compromised many high-profile companies such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Ubisoft, Mercado […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2023
An exposed instance contained information for a customer relationship management (CRM) system that likely belongs to Goyzer, a real estate property management software maker, the Cybernews research team has discovered. The data was leaked via a publicly exposed and passwordless MongoDB database, which has since been closed. Businesses employ MongoDB to organize and store large […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2023
ESET fixes a high-severity flaw in Secure Traffic Scanning Feature that could have been exploited to cause web browsers to trust sites that should not be trusted. ESET has addressed a vulnerability (CVE-2023-5594, CVSS score 7.5) in the Secure Traffic Scanning Feature, preventing potential exploitation that could lead web browsers to trust websites using certificates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2023
More than 22,000 users of Blink Mobility should take the necessary steps to protect themselves against the risk of identity theft. The Cybernews research team has discovered that their personal data was exposed in a leak. Los Angeles-based electric car-sharing provider Blink Mobility left a misconfigured MongoDB database open to the public. Its metadata was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2023
Google has released emergency updates to address a new actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser. Google has released emergency updates to address a new zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7024, in its web browser Chrome. The flaw has been addressed with the release of version 120.0.6099.129 for Mac,Linux and 120.0.6099.129/130 for Windows which will […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2023
The Mirai-based botnet InfectedSlurs was spotted targeting QNAP VioStor NVR (Network Video Recorder) devices. In November, Akamai warned of a new Mirai-based DDoS botnet, named InfectedSlurs, actively exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities to infect routers and video recorder (NVR) devices. The researchers discovered the botnet in October 2023, but they believe it has been active since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2023
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Hunters International ransomware gang claims to have hacked the Fred Hutch Cancer Center New NKAbuse malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2023
Security flaws in Netgate pfSense firewall solution can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution on vulnerable devices. pfSense is a popular open-source firewall solution maintained by Netgate, researchers discovered multiple security issues affecting it. Researchers from SonarCloud discovered several security issues, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and a Command Injection vulnerability in pfSense CE (CVE-2023-42325, CVE-2023-42327, CVE-2023-42326). The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2023
GokuMarket, a centralized crypto exchange owned by ByteX, left an open instance, revealing the details of virtually all of its users, the Cybernews research team has discovered. The leak comes after the team discovered an unprotected MongoDB instance, which stored information on GokuMarket crypto exchange users. Businesses employ MongoDB to organize and store large swaths […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2023
Users of Ubiquiti WiFi products started reporting that they are accessing other people’s devices when logging into their accounts. Some users of Ubiquiti wifi products started reporting unexpected access to security camera footage, photos, and other devices upon logging into their accounts. Ubiquiti allows its customers to access and manage their devices through a proprietary […]
