CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added five new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly add...

Chinese Hackers Caught Exploiting Popular Antivirus Products to Target Telecom Sector

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...

Improper Access Control

Description The software does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Proof of Concept Unauthorized actors can access critical pages directly. - InstallDatabase.php - diagnostic.php...

Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Gain Network Access by Exploiting Default Multifactor Authentication Protocols and “PrintNightmare” Vulnerability

Summary Multifactor Authentication MFA: A Cybersecurity Essential • MFA is one of the most important cybersecurity practices to reduce the risk of intrusions—according to industry research, users who enable MFA are up to 99 percent less likely to have an account compromised. • Every organization...

The top 5 most routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2021

A joint Cybersecurity Advisory, coauthored by cybersecurity authorities of the United States CISA, NSA, and FBI, Australia ACSC, Canada CCCS, New Zealand NZ NCSC, and the United Kingdom NCSC-UK has detailed the top 15 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs routinely exploited by malicious cybe...

FBI warns food and agriculture to brace for seasonal ransomware attacks

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI recently released a Private Industry Notification warning agriculture cooperatives also known as "farmers co-ops" of the looming danger of well-timed ransomware attacks. The agency warns that during the critical planting and harvesting seasons, attacks coul...

Microsoft Issues Report of Russian Cyberattacks against Ukraine

Microsoft has a comprehensive report on the dozens of cyberattacks -- and even more espionage operations -- Russia has conducted against Ukraine as part of this war: At least six Russian Advanced Persistent Threat APT actors and other unattributed threats, have conducted destructive attacks,...

U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Lists 2021's Top 15 Most Exploited Software Vulnerabilities

Log4Shell, ProxyShell, ProxyLogon, ZeroLogon, and flaws in Zoho ManageEngine AD SelfService Plus, Atlassian Confluence, and VMware vSphere Client emerged as some of the top exploited security vulnerabilities in 2021. That's according to a "Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities" report released ...

Weekly Threat Digest: 18 – 24 April 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 430 5 2 Worldwide 17 46 The fourth week of April 2022 witnessed the discovery of 430 vulnerabilities out of which ...

Millions of Java Apps Remain Vulnerable to Log4Shell

Four months after the discovery of the zero-day Log4Shell critical flaw, millions of Java applications still remain vulnerable to compromise, researchers have found. Rezilion expected that due to the “massive amount of media coverage” the bug unsurprisingly received, the majority of applications...

2021 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS, the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre NZ NCSC, and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-UK have...

Newly patched VMware vulnerability exploited by Iranian espionage group, Rocket Kitten

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here An Iranian cyber espionage gang known as Rocket Kitten has began delivering the Core Impact penetration testing tool on susceptible computers by exploiting a newly fixed severe vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE...

Hive Ransomware targets organizations with ProxyShell exploit

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Hive Ransomware has been active since its discovery in June 2021, and it is constantly deploying different backdoors, including the Cobalt Strike beacon, on Microsoft Exchange servers that are vulnerable to ProxyShell...

Weekly Threat Digest: 11 – 17 April 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 765 14 1 2 6 25 The third week of April 2022 witnessed a huge spike on the discovery of 765 vulnerabilities out of...

Five Eyes Nations Warn of Russian Cyber Attacks Against Critical Infrastructure

The Five Eyes nations have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning of increased malicious attacks from Russian state-sponsored actors and criminal groups targeting critical infrastructure organizations amidst the ongoing military siege on Ukraine. "Evolving intelligence indicates that the...

Design/Logic Flaw

The affected product is vulnerable to a network-based attack by threat actors sending unimpeded requests to the receiving server, which could cause a denial-of-service condition due to lack of heap memory resources...

2022 Cloud Misconfigurations Report: A Quick Look at the Latest Cloud Security Breaches and Attack Trends

Every year, Rapid7's team of cloud security experts and researchers put together a report to review data from publicly disclosed breaches that occurred over the prior year. The goal of this report is to unearth patterns and trends in cloud-related breaches and persistent exposures, so organizatio...

Analyzing Attempts to Exploit the Spring4Shell Vulnerability CVE-2022-22965 to Deploy Cryptocurrency Miners

Recently, we observed attempts to exploit the Spring4Shell vulnerability — a remote code execution bug, assigned as CVE-2022-22965 — by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners...

Karakurt Ensnares Conti, Diavol Ransomware Groups in Its Web

Researchers have found financial and technological links between the Karakurt cybercriminal group and two high-profile ransomware actors that signal a shift in business operations and an expansion of opportunities for the threat actors to target victims, they said. Karakurt—a financially motivate...

InsightCloudSec Supports the Recently Updated NSA/CISA Kubernetes Hardening Guide

The National Security Agency NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA recently updated their Kubernetes Hardening Guide, which was originally published in August 2021. With the help and feedback received from numerous partners in the cybersecurity community, this guide...