Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2024
Greylock McKinnon Associates data breach exposed DOJ data of 341650 people

Greylock McKinnon Associates, a service provider for the Department of Justice, suffered a data breach that exposed data of 341650 people. Greylock McKinnon Associates (GMA) provides expert economic analysis and litigation support to a diverse group of domestic and international clients in the legal profession, the business community, and government agencies, including the Department of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2024
Crowdfense is offering a larger 30M USD exploit acquisition program

Zero-day broker firm Crowdfense announced a 30 million USD offer as part of its Exploit Acquisition Program. Crowdfense is a world-leading research hub and acquisition platform focused on high-quality zero-day exploits and advanced vulnerability research. In 2019 the company made the headlines for its 10M USD bug bounty program along with its unique “Vulnerability Research […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2024
U.S. Department of Health warns of attacks against IT help desks

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warns of attacks against IT help desks across the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reported that threat actors are carrying out attacks against IT help desks across the Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector. The Health […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2024
Security Affairs newsletter Round 466 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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. More than 16,000 Ivanti VPN gateways still vulnerable to RCE CVE-2024-21894 Cisco warns of XSS flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2024
Over 92,000 Internet-facing D-Link NAS devices can be easily hacked

A researcher disclosed an arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor issue in multiple end-of-life D-Link NAS models. A researcher who goes online with the moniker ‘Netsecfish’ disclosed a new arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor flaw, tracked as , tracked as CVE-2024-3273, that impacts multiple end-of-life D-Link Network Attached Storage (NAS) device models. The flaw affects […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2024
More than 16,000 Ivanti VPN gateways still vulnerable to RCE CVE-2024-21894

Experts warn of roughly 16,500 Ivanti Connect Secure and Poly Secure gateways still vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) flaw. Shadowserver researchers reported that roughly 16,500 Ivanti Connect Secure and Poly Secure gateways are vulnerable to the recently reported RCE flaw CVE-2024-21894. This week the company released security updates to address four security flaws […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 06, 2024
Cisco warns of XSS flaw in end-of-life small business routers

Cisco warns customers of Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, RV082, RV320, and RV325 Routers Cross-Site scripting flaw. Cisco warns of a Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, RV082, RV320, and RV325 routers Cross-Site scripting (XSS) flaw. The medium severity issue, tracked as CVE-2024-20362 (CVSS score 6.1), resides in the web-based management interface of Cisco Small Business […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2024
Magento flaw exploited to deploy persistent backdoor hidden in XML

Threat actors are exploiting critical Magento vulnerability CVE-2024-20720 to install a persistent backdoor on e-stores. Sansec researchers observed threat actors are exploiting the recently disclosed Magento vulnerability CVE-2024-20720 to deploy a persistent backdoor on e-stores. The vulnerability CVE-2024-20720 (CVSS score of 9.1) is an OS Command (‘OS Command Injection’) vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2024
Cyberattack disrupted services at Omni Hotels & Resorts

US hotel chain Omni Hotels & Resorts suffered a cyber attack that forced the company to shut down its systems. A cyberattack hit Omni Hotels & Resorts disrupting its services and forcing the company to shut down its systems. The hotel chain did not share details about the attack, however, the effects reported in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2024
HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood technique can be exploited in DoS attacks

HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood: Researchers warn of a new HTTP/2 vulnerability that can be exploited to conduct powerful denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. HTTP messages can contain named fields in both header and trailer sections. CERT/CC experts explained that both header and trailer fields are serialized as field blocks in HTTP/2 to transmit them in multiple fragments to […]