Cisco issued a warning of active exploitation attempts targeting two security vulnerabilities in the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows. The security flaws are tracked as CVE-2020-3153 (CVSS score: 6.5) and CVE-2020-3433 (CVSS score: 7.8), which allows the attacker to copy malicious files to arbitrary locations with system-level privileges. Both the vulnerabilities are dated […]
Cisco has warned of active exploitation attempts targeting a pair of two-year-old security flaws in the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client for Windows. Tracked as CVE-2020-3153 (CVSS score: 6.5) and CVE-2020-3433 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerabilities could enable local authenticated attackers to perform DLL hijacking and copy arbitrary files to system directories with elevated privileges. […]
WordPress security company Wordfence on Thursday said it started detecting exploitation attempts targeting the newly disclosed flaw in Apache Commons Text on October 18, 2022. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-42889 aka Text4Shell, has been assigned a severity ranking of 9.8 out of a possible 10.0 on the CVSS scale and affects versions 1.5 through 1.9 […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a recently disclosed critical flaw impacting Atlassian’s Bitbucket Server and Data Center to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2022-36804, the issue relates to a command injection vulnerability that could allow malicious actors to gain arbitrary code […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a recently disclosed security flaw in Zoho ManageEngine to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. “Zoho ManageEngine PAM360, Password Manager Pro, and Access Manager Plus contain an unspecified vulnerability which allows for remote code execution,” the agency said in […]
QNAP Systems, Inc found a new DEADBOLT ransomware attacks that exploits zero-day vulnerability in Photo Station. QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to update Photo Station to the latest available version. “QNAP® Systems, Inc. today detected the security threat DEADBOLT leveraging exploitation of Photo Station vulnerability to encrypt QNAP NAS that are directly connected to […]
A variant of the Mirai botnet known as MooBot is co-opting vulnerable D-Link devices into an army of denial-of-service bots by taking advantage of multiple exploits. “If the devices are compromised, they will be fully controlled by attackers, who could utilize those devices to conduct further attacks such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks,” Palo Alto […]
QNAP has issued a new advisory urging users of its network-attached storage (NAS) devices to upgrade to the latest version of Photo Station following yet another wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks in the wild by exploiting a zero-day flaw in the software. The Taiwanese company said it detected the attacks on September 3 and that […]
Iranian state-sponsored actors are leaving no stone unturned to exploit unpatched systems running Log4j to target Israeli entities, indicating the vulnerability’s long tail for remediation. Microsoft attributed the latest set of activities to the umbrella threat group tracked as MuddyWater (aka Cobalt Ulster, Mercury, Seedworm, or Static Kitten), which is linked to the Iranian intelligence […]
Zimbra CVE-2022-27824 has been added to the CISA’s “Known Exploited Vulnerabilities” catalog as a new vulnerability. Hackers are actively exploiting it in attack activities, which indicates it is active in the hacking community. Unauthenticated threat actors are able to steal email account credentials in clear-text by exploiting this high-severity vulnerability. Using Zimbra Collaboration, a threat […]
A cyber mercenary that “ostensibly sells general security and information analysis services to commercial customers” used several Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits in limited and highly-targeted attacks against European and Central American entities. The company, which Microsoft describes as a private-sector offensive actor (PSOA), is an Austria-based outfit called DSIRF that’s linked to the development […]
A newly observed phishing campaign is leveraging the recently disclosed Follina security vulnerability to distribute a previously undocumented backdoor on Windows systems. “Rozena is a backdoor malware that is capable of injecting a remote shell connection back to the attacker’s machine,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said in a report this week. Tracked as […]
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has cautioned of a new set of spear-phishing attacks exploiting the “Follina” flaw in the Windows operating system to deploy password-stealing malware. Attributing the intrusions to a Russian nation-state group tracked as APT28 (aka Fancy Bear or Sofacy), the agency said the attacks commence with a lure […]
Atlassian has warned of a critical unpatched remote code execution vulnerability impacting Confluence Server and Data Center products that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. The Australian software company credited cybersecurity firm Volexity for identifying the flaw, which is being tracked as CVE-2022-26134. “Atlassian has been made aware of current active exploitation […]
An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor aligned with Chinese state interests has been observed weaponizing the new zero-day flaw in Microsoft Office to achieve code execution on affected systems. “TA413 CN APT spotted [in-the-wild] exploiting the Follina zero-day using URLs to deliver ZIP archives which contain Word Documents that use the technique,” enterprise security firm […]
The contestants who successfully exploited 16 zero-day bugs within 16 different products in the Pwn2Own Vancouver 2022 first day won more than $800,000 in prize money. The product line includes:- Microsoft Windows 11 (OS) Microsoft Teams (communication platform) First Day: Microsoft Teams and Windows 11 Hacked In the enterprise communications category, Microsoft Teams was the […]
The North Korea-backed Lazarus Group has been observed leveraging the Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to deploy the NukeSped (aka Manuscrypt) implant against targets located in its southern counterpart. “The attacker used the Log4j vulnerability on VMware Horizon products that were not applied with the security patch,” AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) said […]
Several hackers have newly begun exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-30525, which is affecting business firewall and VPN devices from Zyxel. In response to this vulnerability, the cybersecurity experts at Rapid7 have discovered that a number of Zyxel firewalls supporting ZTP like the ATP series, the VPN series, and the USG FLEX […]
Image source: z3r00t The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Monday added two security flaws, including the recently disclosed remote code execution bug affecting Zyxel firewalls, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2022-30525, the vulnerability is rated 9.8 for severity and relates to a command injection flaw […]
Cybercriminal groups have been exploiting a critical vulnerability in F5 BIG-IP solutions to erase file systems on affected devices, rendering servers completely useless. Tracked as CVE-2022-1388, successful exploitation of the flaw would allow remote threat actors to execute commands on BIG-IP network devices with root user privileges, making it a critical security risk. The company […]
A Chinese-aligned cyberespionage group has been observed striking the telecommunication sector in Central Asia with versions of malware such as ShadowPad and PlugX. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne tied the intrusions to an actor it tracks under the name “Moshen Dragon,” with tactical overlaps between the collective and another threat group referred to as Nomad Panda (aka […]