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Tianfu Cup 2020 – 5 minutes to hack Windows 10, Ubuntu iOS, VMWare EXSi, and others

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Many popular OS and applications have been hacked during this year’s edition of the Tianfu Cup hacking competition. This year’s edition of the Tianfu Cup hacking competition was very prolific, bug bounty hackers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in multiple software and applications. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Critical bug in decoder used by popular chipsets exposes 2/3 of Android devices to hack

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Security researchers at Check Point Research have discovered a critical remote code execution that affects the implementation of the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) in Android devices running on Qualcomm and MediaTek chipsets. ALAC was developed in 2004 and Apple open-sourced it in 2011, since then many third-party vendors used it.

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Britain’s information commissioner fines British Airways for 2018 Hack

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Britain’s information commissioner has fined British Airways 20 million pounds for the 2018 hack that exposed data of 400,000 customers. In September 2018, British Airways suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of 400,000 customers. SecurityAffairs – hacking, British Airways). Pierluigi Paganini.

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A data leak exposes the operations of the Chinese private firm TopSec, which provides Censorship-as-a-Service

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TopSec is also a Tier 1 vulnerability supplier for China’s intelligence ministry and has provided cloud and IT security monitoring services nationwide since 2004. The data leak includes infrastructure details and work logs from employees of a state-affiliated private sector security firm in China.

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CVE-2021-31166 Windows HTTP flaw also impacts WinRM servers

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The flaw is wormable and affects different versions of Windows 10, Windows Server 2004 and Windows Server 20H2. The security researcher Axel Souchet has published over the weekend a proof-of-concept exploit code for the wormable flaw that impacted Windows IIS. SecurityAffairs – hacking, CVE-2021-31166). WinRM *IS* vulnerable.

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Expert released PoC exploit code for Windows CVE-2021-31166 bug

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The flaw is wormable and affects different versions of Windows 10, Windows Server 2004 and Windows Server 20H2. The security researcher Axel Souchet has published over the weekend a proof-of-concept exploit code for the wormable flaw that impacted Windows IIS. SecurityAffairs – hacking, RCE). Pierluigi Paganini.

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New Linux variant of BIFROSE RAT uses deceptive domain strategies

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The Bifrost RAT has been active since 2004, it allows its operators to gather sensitive information, including hostname and IP address. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, Bifrost) com) that mimics the legitimate VMware domain. ” concludes the report.

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