This week, Cisco engineers fixed a vulnerability in several versions of Jabber for Windows, video conferencing and messaging application. Fixed issues included an RCE bug that had the potential of a worm to execute arbitrary code...
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MoFi Network routers have unpatched backdoors
Engineers from the Canadian company MoFi Network have reported fixing six vulnerabilities in their devices, but there are several more backdoors available for attack. Four issues found by researchers in May 2020 remain...
Hackers attack vulnerability affecting over 350,000 WordPress sites
In the File Manager plugin has been discovered a dangerous vulnerability, which is used by over 700,000 WordPress-based resources and which allows executing commands and malicious scripts on vulnerable sites. Just hours after...
Attackers use a three-year-old RCE bug to install backdoors in Qnap NAS
Researchers from the Chinese company Qihoo 360 warn that attackers are still exploiting the RCE-bug in the firmware of Qnap NAS devices, which was fixed back in 2017. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to...
Researcher discovered critical vulnerabilities in Slack and received only $1,750 for it
Evolution Gaming specialist Oscar Vegeris described how at the beginning of 2020 he found a number of critical vulnerabilities in Slack, which made it possible to easily execute arbitrary code on the user’s machine. it...
Researchers hacked 28000 printers to raise awareness to their insecurity
CyberNews experts spoke about their recent experiment on the insecurity of IoT devices, during which researchers hacked 28000 printers. should be noted that many information security specialists have already condemned the...
SunCrypt Ransomware Developers Joined Maze Cartel
Bleeping Computer reports that the SunCrypt hack group, standing behind the development of the same-name ransomware, and which has been active since fall 2019, has joined forces with operators of other ransomware. What’s...
Iranian low-skilled hackers are quite successful in “playing” with Dharma ransomware
According to Group-IB, Iranian hackers using the Dharma ransomware are successfully attacking companies in Japan, China, Russia and India. on the low level of complexity of the detected attacks, as well as the simplicity of the...
Gmail fixed a serious vulnerability that enables email-spoofing
Google developers have fixed a serious vulnerability in gmail that also affected G Suite. fact, the problem allowed an attacker to impersonate any Gmail and G Suite user and send emails on behalf of someone else, bypassing...
DDoS blackmailers pretend to be Fancy Bear and Armada Collective
Akamai experts have warned of a new wave of DDoS ransomware. Blackmailers threaten companies with DDoS attacks and pretend to be well-known hacker groups such as the Fancy Bear and the Armada Collective. to experts, ransomware...