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Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2022
New York Post hacked? No, the culprit is an employee

Threat actors hacked the website and Twitter account of the New York Post and published offensive messages against US politicians. New York Post confirmed that it was hacked, its website and Twitter account were used by the attackers to publish offensive messages targeting US politicians and a call for the assassination of US President Joe […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2022
Thomson Reuters collected and leaked at least 3TB of sensitive data

The multinational media conglomerate Thomson Reuters left a database with sensitive customer and corporate data exposed online Original post at https://cybernews.com/security/thomson-reuters-leaked-terabytes-sensitive-data/ Thomson Reuters, a multinational media conglomerate, left an open database with sensitive customer and corporate data, including third-party server passwords in plaintext format. Attackers could use the details for a supply-chain attack. The Cybernews […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2022
SiriSpy flaw allows eavesdropping on users’ conversations with Siri

SiriSpy is a vulnerability affecting Apple iOS and macOS that allowed apps to eavesdrop on users’ conversations with Siri. SiriSpy is a now-patched vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-32946, in Apple’s iOS and macOS that could have potentially allowed any app with access to Bluetooth to eavesdrop on conversations with Siri and audio. “An app may be […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2022
British hacker arraigned for running The Real Deal dark web marketplace

A popular British hacker was charged by the U.S. authorities for allegedly running the ‘The Real Deal’ dark web marketplace. The British hacker Daniel Kaye (aka Bestbuy, Spdrman, Popopret, UserL0ser) (34) was charged by the U.S. DoJ for allegedly running the ‘The Real Deal’ dark web marketplace. The man was charged with access device fraud […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2022
OpenSSL to fix the second critical flaw ever

The OpenSSL Project announced an upcoming update to address a critical vulnerability in the open-source toolkit. The OpenSSL Project announced that it is going to release updates to address a critical vulnerability in the open-source toolkit. Experts pointed out that it is the first critical vulnerability patched in toolkit since September 2016. “The OpenSSL project […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2022
See Tickets discloses data breach, customers’ credit card data exposed

International ticketing services company See Tickets disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ payment card details. Ticketing service company See Tickets disclosed a data breach, and threat actors might have accessed customers’ payment card details. Threat actors were able to steal payment card data by implanting a software skimmer on its website. The company discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2022
US charges Ukrainian man with Raccoon Infostealer operation

US authorities charged a Ukrainian man with computer fraud for allegedly infecting millions of computers with Raccoon Infostealer. The US Justice Department charged a Ukrainian, Mark Sokolovsky (26) man with computer fraud for allegedly infecting millions of computers with the Raccoon Infostealer. The man is currently being held in the Netherlands, he was charged for […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2022
Two flaws in Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility client for Windows actively exploited

Cisco warns of active exploitation attempts targeting two vulnerabilities in the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows. Cisco is warning of exploitation attempts targeting two security flaws, tracked as CVE-2020-3153 (CVSS score: 6.5) and CVE-2020-3433 (CVSS score: 7.8), in the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows. Both vulnerabilities are dated 2020 and are now patched. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2022
VMware fixes critical RCE in VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware addressed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in VMware Cloud Foundation tracked as CVE-2021-39144. VMware has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-39144 (CVSSv3 9.8), in VMware Cloud Foundation. VMware Cloud Foundation™ is the industry’s most advanced hybrid cloud platform. It provides a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2022
Experts disclosed a 22-year-old bug in popular SQLite Database library

A high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737, has been disclosed in the SQLite database library. The security expert Andreas Kellas detailed a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-35737 (CVSS score: 7.5), in the SQLite database library, which was introduced in October 2000. The CVE-2022-35737 flaw is an integer overflow issue that impacts SQLite versions 1.0.12 through 3.39.1. The vulnerability was […]