Hackers Exploit Signal's Linked Devices Feature to Hijack Accounts via Malicious QR Codes

Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors have been observed targeting individuals of interest via the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to gain unauthorized access to their accounts. "The most novel and widely used technique underpinning Russian-aligned attempts to compromise Signal accounts is t...

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Google Secrets Stolen, Windows Hack, New Crypto Scams and More

Welcome to this week's Cybersecurity News Recap. Discover how cyber attackers are using clever tricks like fake codes and sneaky emails to gain access to sensitive data. We cover everything from device code phishing to cloud exploits, breaking down the technical details into simple, easy-to-follo...

768 CVEs Exploited in 2024, Reflecting a 20% Increase from 639 in 2023

As many as 768 vulnerabilities with designated CVE identifiers were reported as exploited in the wild in 2024, up from 639 CVEs in 2023, registering a 20% increase year-over-year. Describing 2024 as "another banner year for threat actors targeting the exploitation of vulnerabilities," VulnCheck...

Google: Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations

Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence AI technology powered by Google to further enable their malicious cyber and information operations. "Threat actors are experimenting with Gemini to enable their...

The 2024 Ransomware Landscape: Looking back on another painful year

The ransomware landscape in 2024 continued to evolve at a rapid pace, outgrowing many of the trends we saw in 2023. Threat actors remained relentless and innovative, targeting organizations of all sizes and sectors. In this post, we’ll examine the latest data points, discuss notable groups, and...

redis: Redis allows denial-of-service due to malformed ACL selectors

A flaw was found in the Redis server. An authenticated attacker with sufficient privileges can create a malformed ACL selector which, when accessed, triggers a server panic and subsequent denial of service...

CISA and FBI Release Advisory on How Threat Actors Chained Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Applications

CISA, in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, released Threat Actors Chained Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Applications. This advisory was crafted in response to exploitation of vulnerabilities—CVE-2024-8963, an administrative bypass vulnerability; CVE-2024-9379, a...

U.S. Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm Over Treasury Hack Tied to Silk Typhoon

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC has imposed sanctions against a Chinese cybersecurity company and a Shanghai-based cyber actor for their alleged links to the Salt Typhoon group and the recent compromise of the federal agency. "People's Republic of China-linked...

Schneider Electric Modicon M340 信息泄露漏洞

The Schneider Electric Modicon M340 is a mid-range PLC programmable logic controller for industrial processes and infrastructure from Schneider Electric France. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Schneider Electric Modicon M340, which stems from the inclusion of an Exposure of...

Perfect Fit or Business Threat? How to Mitigate the Risk of Rogue Employees

Rogue employees present significant financial and cybersecurity risks to organizations. Rapid7 threat researchers and penetration testers are actively observing how malicious actors exploit hiring pipelines to infiltrate businesses. This blog highlights real-world tactics, including: Insider...

Fortinet Warns of New Zero-Day Used in Attacks on Firewalls with Exposed Interfaces

Threat hunters are calling attention to a new campaign that has targeted Fortinet FortiGate firewall devices with management interfaces exposed on the public internet. "The campaign involved unauthorized administrative logins on management interfaces of firewalls, creation of new accounts, SSL VP...

CVE-2024-42181 HCL MyXalytics is affected by a cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability

HCL MyXalytics is affected by a cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability. The application transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors...

CVE-2023-24012

CVE-2023-24012 describes a vulnerability in the Data Distribution Service (DDS) chain of trust where an attacker can craft malicious DDS Participants or ROS 2 Nodes with valid certificates to take full control of a secure DDS databus. The root cause is a non-compliant implementation of permission...

Neglected Domains Used in Malspam to Evade SPF and DMARC Security Protections

Cybersecurity researchers have found that bad actors are continuing to have success by spoofing sender email addresses as part of various malspam campaigns. Faking the sender address of an email is widely seen as an attempt to make the digital missive more legitimate and get past security...

SUSE CVE-2024-12426

Exposure of Environmental Variables and arbitrary INI file values to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in The Document Foundation LibreOffice. URLs could be constructed which expanded environmental variables or INI file values, so potentially sensitive information could be exfiltrated to a remo...

CISA: No Wider Federal Impact from Treasury Cyber Attack, Investigation Ongoing

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday said there are no indications that the cyber attack targeting the Treasury Department impacted other federal agencies. The agency said it's working closely with the Treasury Department and BeyondTrust to get a better...

Blurring the Lines: How Nation-States and Organized Cybercriminals Are Becoming Alike

Blurring the Lines: How Nation-States and Organized Cybercriminals Are Becoming Alike By Tomer Shloman · January 7, 2025 The distinction between nation-state actors and organized cybercriminals is becoming increasingly blurred in our rapidly evolving cyber landscape. Historically, these groups ha...

PT-2025-1201 · Ibm · Ibm Concert

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IBM Concert Software versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.3 Description: The issue is related to the disclosure of sensitive system information to an unauthorized actor, which could be used in further attacks against the system. Exploitation of this...

15,000+ Four-Faith Routers Exposed to New Exploit Due to Default Credentials

A high-severity flaw impacting select Four-Faith industrial routers has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12856 CVSS score: 7.2, has been described as an operating system OS command injection bug affecting...

Thousands Download Malicious npm Libraries Impersonating Legitimate Tools

Threat actors have been observed uploading malicious typosquats of legitimate npm packages such as typescript-eslint and @types/node that have racked up thousands of downloads on the package registry. The counterfeit versions, named @typescripteslinter/eslint and types-node, are engineered to...