CVE-2021-1522

The emails of federal prosecutors’ offices around the country were hacked by Russian intelligence during the SolarWinds cyber attack. The Russian hackers had access to the emails of federal prosecutors in New York, California,  DC and other jurisdictions from May to December 2020. The Justice Department released the update to “increase transparency” with the public…

If installed; the fake and malicious WhatsApp pink app takes full control of a targeted device. An unusual baiting technique has appeared with the WhatsApp users receiving links that claim to turn the application’s theme from its trademark green to pink. Simultaneously, it also promises ‘‘new features” that have not been specified. Cyber experts have…

Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has popped up in a popular hacker forum that the vast amount of lifted data is being collated and refined to identify specific targets. This might signal the start of a series of LinkedIn-fueled attacks.

The two-count indictment, which was returned in May and kept under seal until now, charges Ding Xiaoyang, Cheng Qingmin, and Zhu Yunmin were officers with the Hainan State Security Department, a provincial branch of China’s Ministry of State Security, or MSS. A fourth charged individual, Wu Shurong, was charged as a computer hacker who created…

WordPress has released version 5.7.1 of its popular content management system (CMS), which brings more than 25 bug fixes, including patches for two security vulnerabilities. One of the patched security flaws is an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in the ID3 library in PHP 8, which is used by WordPress. Tracked as CVE-2021-29447, the vulnerability…

Microsoft fixed 55 vulnerabilities yesterday including three zero-days not thought to have been exploited in the wild, one of which affected the under-fire Exchange Server. This month’s Patch Tuesday is lighter than many have been in recent months, but there were four critical CVEs for admins to address, alongside the three publicly disclosed bugs. Top…