Jeffrey lives outside Boston with his wife and two kids. While brewing beer is still a great passion of his, his main hobby now is gardening — growing peppers for making super-hot sauces with. But in this interview, Jeff tells us how his life is greatly influenced by his work — as the Head of Regional Social Media show more ...
A proof-of-concept exploit has been released online for the VMware CVE-2022-22954 remote code execution vulnerability, already being used in active attacks that infect servers with coin miners.
Tracked as CVE-2022-27505, the newly resolved high-severity issue in SD-WAN is a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that exists because input isn’t properly neutralized during web page generation.
Most of these messages promise free gifts and/or offers after having paid bills. Nobody has asked for these texts, and they’re not being sent by providers of any services.
The federal agencies said the threat actors could use custom-built modular malware to scan for, compromise, and take control of ICS and SCADA devices from Schneider Electric, OMRON, and Open Platform Communications.
This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-1329, is extremely severe. With over 5 million active installations of Elementor at the time of writing, a significant number of websites are impacted.
Securden makes products that secure access across IT, DevOps, and cloud environments, meaning they can manage passwords for IT teams, govern privileged access, and even enable remote access without a VPN.
The CISA has added ten new security bugs to its list of actively exploited vulnerabilities, including a high severity local privilege escalation bug in the Windows Common Log File System Driver.
Apache has taken another shot at fixing a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its Struts 2 framework for Java applications – because the first patch, issued in 2020, didn't fully do the trick.
When changes were made to existing policies, they were driven by factors including remote working demands, supply chain failures, increased cyberattack rates, and employee turnover.
Managed detection and response (MDR) solutions provider Critical Start on Tuesday announced that it has received more than $215 million in strategic growth funding from private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.
Cisco announced on Wednesday that updates released for its Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) software address a critical vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication.
The ZLoader botnet has been disrupted, after the U.S. Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued a court order that enabled Microsoft to take control of 65 domains used by the ZLoader threat actors.
Check Point researchers have disclosed a now-fixed security flaw in the Rarible NFT marketplace that, if successfully exploited, could have led to account takeover and theft of cryptocurrency assets.
This newly discovered malware, named Fodcha by researchers at Qihoo 360's Network Security Research Lab (360 Netlab), has spread to over 62,000 devices between March 29 and April 10.
On Tuesday, the wind turbine maker published an updated incident notification, saying that it was still working on restoring systems to “enable business continuity and resume normal operations as soon as reasonably practicable.”
The campaign appears to be a continuation of Lazarus activity dubbed Operation Dream Job, which was first observed in August 2020. In the past, it targeted the defense, government, and engineering sectors.
Despite being less active, which may suggest that the ransomware business is closer to moonlighting, OldGremlin has demanded ransoms as high as $3 million from one of its victims.
The FBI is receiving an increasing number of reports of adults posing as age-appropriate females coercing young boys through social media to produce sexual images and videos and then extorting money from them.
This information stealer, first introduced to the wild in March 2022, is currently undergoing active development and multiple releases of new versions have been observed recently.
John Tobon, HSI’s special agent in charge in Hawaii, told a local news station that investigators found that the attackers had obtained credentials that allowed access to an unnamed company’s systems.
While the Q3 2021 average ransom paid was atypically high, the entire 2021 ransoms paid by quarter average was ~$167k, 44.2% less than the Q3 figure, according to a report by Corvus Insurance.
The funding was led by Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, and IVP, with participation from existing investors Greylock, Wing, and GV. Obsidian will add Menlo Ventures Partner Venky Ganesan to its board of directors.
Windows hosts running the Server Message Block protocol (SMB protocol) are vulnerable to this bug. SMB protocols allow users to share access to files and tools on remote servers.
The advisory highlights that OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) servers and multiple versions of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) from Schneider Electric, and OMRON are vulnerable to such attacks.
According to researchers, the campaign was first observed in April and aims to steal data from individuals in South Korea. They are targeted via spear-phishing emails that include malicious Word documents.
Microsoft linked the Chinese-backed Hafnium group to a defense evasion malware Tarrask used by cybercriminals to attain persistence on compromised Windows environments. Researchers uncovered a recent malicious activity wherein hackers abused an unpatched zero-day vulnerability for their initial attack vectors. show more ...
The startup said it plans to use the money to scale its SaaS data security product offerings, fuel global growth through aggressive hiring, and build strategic partner programs.
WordPress Elementor versions 3.6.0 through 3.6.2 suffer from a remote code execution vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1373-01 - This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel. Issues addressed include privilege escalation and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5378-4 - USN-5378-1 fixed a vulnerability in Gzip. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and 16.04 ESM. Cleemy Desu Wayo discovered that Gzip incorrectly handled certain filenames. If a user or automated system were tricked into performing zgrep operations with specially crafted filenames, a remote attacker could overwrite arbitrary files.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5378-3 - USN-5378-2 fixed a vulnerability in XZ Utils. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and 16.04 ESM. Cleemy Desu Wayo discovered that Gzip incorrectly handled certain filenames. If a user or automated system were tricked into performing zgrep operations with specially crafted filenames, a remote attacker could overwrite arbitrary files.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1361-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is software-defined storage integrated with and optimized for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is a highly scalable, production-grade persistent storage for stateful applications running in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1345-01 - Red Hat AMQ Streams, based on the Apache Kafka project, offers a distributed backbone that allows microservices and other applications to share data with extremely high throughput and extremely low latency. This release of Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.1.0 serves as a replacement for show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1248-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.48. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1360-01 - This release of Red Hat Fuse 7.10.2 serves as a replacement for Red Hat Fuse 7.10.1, and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked to in the References.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1354-01 - .NET Core is a managed-software framework. It implements a subset of the .NET framework APIs and several new APIs, and it includes a CLR implementation.
Delta Controls enteliTOUCH versions 3.40.3935, 3.40.3706, and 3.33.4005 suffer from a cookie user password disclosure vulnerability.
Delta Controls enteliTOUCH versions 3.40.3935, 3.40.3706, and 3.33.4005 suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Delta Controls enteliTOUCH versions 3.40.3935, 3.40.3706, and 3.33.4005 suffer from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-1372-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is software-defined storage integrated with and optimized for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation is a highly scalable, production-grade persistent storage for stateful applications running in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
Online Car Wash Booking System version 1.0 suffers from a remote blind SQL injection vulnerability.
Online Car Wash Booking System version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
REDCap versions prior to 11.4.0 suffer from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability that can be leveraged to escalate privileges.
The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of nation-state actors deploying specialized malware to maintain access to industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices. "The APT actors have developed custom-made tools for targeting ICS/SCADA devices," multiple U.S. agencies said in an alert. "The tools enable them to scan for, compromise, and control
A week after VMware released patches to remediate eight security vulnerabilities in VMware Workspace ONE Access, threat actors have begun to actively exploit one of the critical flaws in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-22954, the critical issue relates to a remote code execution vulnerability that stems from server-side template injection in VMware Workspace ONE Access and Identity Manager. The
Microsoft and a consortium of cybersecurity companies took legal and technical steps to disrupt the ZLoader botnet, seizing control of 65 domains that were used to control and communicate with the infected hosts. "ZLoader is made up of computing devices in businesses, hospitals, schools, and homes around the world and is run by a global internet-based organized crime gang operating malware as a
A U.S. court has sentenced former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith to five years and three months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for conspiring with North Korea to help use cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions imposed on the country. "There is no question North Korea poses a national security threat to our nation, and the regime has shown time and again it will stop at nothing to ignore
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a now-fixed security flaw in the Rarible non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace that, if successfully exploited, could have led to account takeover and theft of cryptocurrency assets. "By luring victims to click on a malicious NFT, an attacker can take full control of the victim's crypto wallet to steal funds," Check Point researchers Roman Zaikin, Dikla
A threat group that pursues crypto mining and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has been linked to a new botnet called Enemybot, which has been discovered enslaving routers and Internet of Things (IoT) devices since last month. "This botnet is mainly derived from Gafgyt's source code but has been observed to borrow several modules from Mirai's original source code," Fortinet
Pulchritudinous women with glossy long hair are targeting Israeli officials via Facebook - but why? Scammers have found a new way to gain access to your most sensitive information - but how? And armchair detectives are helping investigating cold cases involving DNA - but should they? All this and much more is show more ...
Agencies of the US Government have issued a joint warning that hackers have revealed their capability to gain full system access to industrial control systems that might help enemy states sabotage critical infrastructure. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
