Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Google Project Zero disclosed three Samsung phone vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2021-25337, CVE-2021-25369 and CVE-2021-25370, that have been exploited by a surveillance company. The TAG team only obtained a partial exploit chain for Samsung phones that were likely in the testing phase. ” reported the advisory.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Quebec shut down nearly 4,000 of its sites as a preventative measure after the disclosure of a PoC exploit for the Log4Shell flaw ( CVE-2021-44228 ) in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Query our API for "tags=CVE-2021-44228" for source IP addresses and other IOCs. formatMsgNoLookups option is set to false.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

“All critical operational systems are functioning; however, as a measure of abundant precaution, restricted access and preventive checks have been put in place for employee and customer facing portals and touch points.” Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. ” reported The Economic Times. .”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

Almost every Chrome exploits observed in the wild between 2021 and 2023 triggered a memory corruption issue in a Chrome renderer process that was exploited for remote code execution (RCE). “V8 vulnerabilities are rarely “classic” memory corruption bugs (use-after-frees, out-of-bounds accesses, etc.)

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2023

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) discovered several exploit chains targeting Android, iOS, and Chrome to install commercial spyware. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared details about two distinct campaigns which used several zero-day exploits against Android, iOS and Chrome. links sent over SMS to users.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2021

The researcher explained that has found a way to modify the tracker software running on the tag, he was able to modify its NFC URL. cc @colinoflynn @LennertWo pic.twitter.com/zGALc2S2Ph — stacksmashing (@ghidraninja) May 8, 2021. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2023

The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added surveillance technology vendors Intellexa and Cytrox to the Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems. The Entity List maintained by the U.S. government.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In July 2023, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added surveillance technology vendors Intellexa and Cytrox to the Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems. The Entity List maintained by the U.S. government.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Threat actors behind a Mirai botnet starts exploiting a critical Azure OMIGOD vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-38647, a few days after Microsoft disclosed them. Below is the list of the OMIGOD flaws: CVE-2021-38647 – Unauthenticated RCE as root (Severity: 9.8) CVE-2021-38648 – Privilege Escalation vulnerability (Severity: 7.8)

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2024

In July 2023, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added surveillance technology vendors Intellexa and Cytrox to the Entity List for trafficking in cyber exploits used to gain access to information systems. The Entity List maintained by the U.S. government.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2021

TAG also partnered with CloudFlare and others take down servers. — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) December 7, 2021. For example, the site dont.farm was used to sell access to compromised Google and Facebook advertising account. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2023

” In May 2022, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. “When used together, these components provide a variety of information stealing, surveillance and remote-access capabilities.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter). The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 334 appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This week, researchers at Horizon3 cybersecurity firm have released a proof-of-concept exploit for a critical-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-39952 , in Fortinet’s FortiNAC network access control solution. Tags and blocklists available now. GreyNoiseIO is observing broad exploitation of FortiNAC CVE-2022-39952.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2022

The average ransomware payment climbed 82% since 2020 to a record high of $570,000 in the first half of 2021, and then by 2022 it almost doubled. . In a recent post from 10 Jul 2022, 15:35 pm in Dark Web , “ALPHV” introduced search not only by text signatures, but also supporting tags for search of passwords and compromised PII.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In December 2021, the company’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared the actions it took to disrupt the operations of the Glupteba botnet and announced it has filed a case in the Southern District of New York against its operators. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 11, 2022

The average ransomware payment climbed 82% since 2020 to a record high of $570,000 in the first half of 2021, and then by 2022 it almost doubled. In a recent post from 10 Jul 2022, 15:35 pm in Dark Web , “ALPHV” introduced search not only by text signatures, but also supporting tags for search of passwords and compromised PII.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

My professional and social life revolve around free and inexpensive information feeds and digital tools supplied by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. A wave of breakthrough systems and fresh business models need to take hold to drive the closed platform models of Google and Facebook into obsolescence.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Vendor notified: October 11, 2020 Response received: October 12, 2020 Patch issued: December 2, 2020 Patched version released: January 25, 2021. Technical Explanation: As a Moodle user, you can communicate with other people who have access to the platform. November 2014) – Moodle 3.10 (November 2020) Fixed versions: 3.10.1,

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 3, 2021

But Gab is also different, having grown dramatically in recent months as an alternative to mainstream incumbent platforms such as Twitter and Facebook and drawing a crowd primarily focused on right wing American politics. A couple of days ago, I posted a thread about their alleged breach. Gab's approach. If your password is "maga2020!"

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Experts pointed out that Network gateways are privileged targets for threat actors because they can compromise them in order to gain initial access to corporate networks. link] — 360 Netlab (@360Netlab) July 28, 2021. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Of course, there are many more possibilities.”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2022

The most severe flaws fixed by the IT giant are: CVE-2021-26867 – Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVSS 9.9) CVE-2021-26897 – Windows DNS Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) CVE-2021-27080 – Azure Sphere Unsigned Code Execution Vulnerability (CVSS 9.3). Pierluigi Paganini.

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Lodrina Cherne and Martijn Grooten join the The Hacker Mind podcast to discuss their Black Hat USA 2021 presentation. In early September 2021. It says that spy phones sold real time access to that information, which could have enabled domestic abusers and stalkers to track their targets. So I hope you'll stick around.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that. It was used to describe people who had access to the internet in their home, and those who did not, that still remains. That almost sounds too good to be true.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 7, 2021

million InfoSec professionals, as of early 2021 How can that be part of the problem lies in the training pipeline, we really have to do a much better job with that. It was used to describe people who had access to the internet in their home, and those who did not, that still remains. That almost sounds too good to be true.

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