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China-Linked Hackers Used ROOTROT Webshell in MITRE Network Intrusion

The MITRE Corporation has offered more details into the recently disclosed cyber attack, stating that the first evidence of the intrusion now dates back to December 31, 2023. The attack, which came to light last month, singled out MITRE’s Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment (NERVE) through the exploitation of two Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day […]

MITRE Unveils Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses of 2023: Are You at Risk?

MITRE has released its annual list of the Top 25 “most dangerous software weaknesses” for the year 2023. “These weaknesses lead to serious vulnerabilities in software,” the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said. “An attacker can often exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system, steal data, or prevent applications from […]

Which Hole to Plug First? Solving Chronic Vulnerability Patching Overload

According to folklore, witches were able to sail in a sieve, a strainer with holes in the bottom. Unfortunately, witches don’t work in cybersecurity – where networks generally have so many vulnerabilities that they resemble sieves. For most of us, keeping the sieve of our networks afloat requires nightmarishly hard work and frequent compromises on […]