Security Affairs

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2021
Tens of thousands of QNAP SOHO NAS devices affected by unpatched RCEs

Unpatched vulnerabilities in QNAP small office/home office (SOHO) network-attached storage (NAS) devices could be exploited by remote attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code. Security researchers at SAM Seamless Network discovered a couple of critical unpatched flawsin QNAP small office/home office (SOHO) network-attached storage (NAS) devices that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2021
Conti Ransomware gang demanded $40 million ransom to Broward County Public Schools

Ransomware gang demanded a $40,000,000 ransom to the Broward County Public Schools district, Florida. It is just the last attack of a long string against the sector. Ransomware operators continue to target organizations worldwide and school districts particularly exposed to these malicious campaigns. Recently the Broward County Public Schools district announced that it was victim […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2021
Airlift Express Fixes Vulnerabilities in Its E-commerce Store

PrivacySavvy experts discovered an OTP vulnerability in Airlift Express, which could lead to account hacks and exploits by cybercriminals. A team of security researchers from PrivacySavvy recently discovered an OTP vulnerability in Airlift Express, which could lead to account hacks and exploits by cybercriminals. Fortunately, the company has successfully fixed the security loopholes, but the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2021
DHS CISA requires federal agencies to assess their Microsoft Exchange servers by April 5

The DHS CISA has issued a supplemental directive that requires all federal agencies to identify vulnerable Microsoft Exchange servers in their infrastructure within five days. The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a supplemental directive requiring all federal agencies to identify Microsoft Exchange servers in their environments impacted by […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2021
Man indicted for tampering with public water system in Kansas

The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) charged a Kansas man, for accessing and tampering with a public water system. The United States Department of Justice charged Wyatt A. Travnichek (22), of Ellsworth County, Kansas, for accessing and tampering with the computer system of the Ellsworth County Rural Water District. Travnichek accessed the computer system of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2021
VMware fixes authentication bypass in Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance

VMware has addressed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance. VMware has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21982, in the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance that could be exploited by attackers to bypass authentication. Carbon Black Cloud Workload is a data center security product that protects customers’ workloads […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2021
VMware fixed flaws in vROps that can be chained to compromise organizations

VMware addressed two vulnerabilities in its vRealize Operations (vROps) product that can expose organizations to a significant risk of attacks The vROps delivers self-driving IT operations management for private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments in a unified, AI-powered platform. Security researcher Egor Dimitrenko from Positive Technologies discovered a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21975 […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2021
Akamai dealt with an 800Gbps ransom DDoS against a gambling company

Akamai has recently involved in the mitigation of two of the largest known ransom DDoS attacks, one of them peaked at 800Gbps. CDN and cybersecurity firm Akamai warns of a worrying escalation in ransom DDoS attacks since the beginning of the year. The company recently mitigated three of the six biggest volumetric DDoS attacks it […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2021
Ubiquiti security breach may be a catastrophe

The data breach disclosed by Ubiquiti in January could be just the tip of the iceberg, a deeper incident could have hit the company. In January, American technology vendor Ubiquiti Networks suffered a data breach, it sent out notification emails to its customers asking them to change their passwords and enable 2FA for their accounts. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2021
US CISA warns of DoS flaws in Citrix Hypervisor

Citrix addressed vulnerabilities in Hypervisor that could be exploited by threat actors to execute code in a virtual machine to trigger a denial of service condition on the host. US CISA warns that Citrix has released security updates to address flaws in Hypervisor that could be exploited by threat actors to execute code in a […]