The End of an Era: Microsoft Phases Out VBScript for JavaScript and PowerShell

Microsoft on Wednesday outlined its plans to deprecate Visual Basic Script VBScript in the second half of 2024 in favor of more advanced alternatives such as JavaScript and PowerShell. "Technology has advanced over the years, giving rise to more powerful and versatile scripting languages such as...

Rockwell Advises Disconnecting Internet-Facing ICS Devices Amid Cyber Threats

Rockwell Automation is urging its customers to disconnect all industrial control systems ICSs not meant to be connected to the public-facing internet to mitigate unauthorized or malicious cyber activity. The company said it's issuing the advisory due to "heightened geopolitical tensions and...

From trust to trickery: Brand impersonation over the email attack vector

Cisco recently developed and released a new feature to detect brand impersonation in emails when adversaries pretend to be a legitimate corporation. Talos has discovered a wide range of techniques threat actors use to embed and deliver brand logos via emails to their victims. Talos is providing n...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 13 to 19 May 2024

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Critical Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager Flaw Allows Authentication Bypass

Users of Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager are being urged to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security flaw that could permit an adversary to bypass authentication protections. Tracked as CVE-2024-29849 CVSS score: 9.8, the vulnerability could allow an...

ISPM & ITDR Synergize for AI-Based Identity Security

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of malicious actors requires a multifaceted approach...

ISPM + ITDR: Proactive Cyber Defense in the AI Era

In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, staying ahead of malicious actors requires a multifaceted approach...

SolarMarker Malware Evolves to Resist Takedown Attempts with Multi-Tiered Infrastructure

The persistent threat actors behind the SolarMarker information-stealing malware have established a multi-tiered infrastructure to complicate law enforcement takedown efforts, new findings from Recorded Future show. "The core of SolarMarker's operations is its layered infrastructure, which consis...

NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect Under Attack - CISA Issues Urgent Warning

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added a security flaw impacting NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-43208 CVSS score: N/A, concerns a cas...

Foxit PDF Reader Flaw Exploited by Hackers to Deliver Diverse Malware Arsenal

Multiple threat actors are weaponizing a design flaw in Foxit PDF Reader to deliver a variety of malware such as Agent Tesla, AsyncRAT, DCRat, NanoCore RAT, NjRAT, Pony, Remcos RAT, and XWorm. "This exploit triggers security warnings that could deceive unsuspecting users into executing harmful...

Cyber Criminals Exploit GitHub and FileZilla to Deliver Malware Cocktail

A "multi-faceted campaign" has been observed abusing legitimate services like GitHub and FileZilla to deliver an array of stealer malware and banking trojans such as Atomic aka AMOS, Vidar, Lumma aka LummaC2, and Octo by impersonating credible software like 1Password, Bartender 5, and Pixelmator...

Kimsuky APT Deploying Linux Backdoor Gomir in South Korean Cyber Attacks

The Kimsuky aka Springtail advanced persistent threat APT group, which is linked to North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau RGB, has been observed deploying a Linux version of its GoBear backdoor as part of a campaign targeting South Korean organizations. The backdoor, codenamed Gomir, is...

CVE-2024-2248 JFrog Artifactory Header Injection

A Header Injection vulnerability in the JFrog platform in versions below 7.85.0 SaaS and 7.84.7 Self-Hosted may allow threat actors to take over the end user's account when clicking on a specially crafted URL sent to the victim’s user email...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 6 to 12 May 2024

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New Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability CVE-2024-4761 Under Active Exploitation

Google on Monday shipped emergency fixes to address a new zero-day flaw in the Chrome web browser that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4761, is an out-of-bounds write bug impacting the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It wa...

CISA and Partners Release Guidance for Civil Society Organizations on Mitigating Cyber Threats with Limited Resources

CISA, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security DHS, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and international partners, released Mitigating Cyber Threats with Limited Resources: Guidance for Civil Society. The joint guidance provides civil society organizations and individuals with...

Ongoing Campaign Bombards Enterprises with Spam Emails and Phone Calls

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing social engineering campaign that bombards enterprises with spam emails with the goal of obtaining initial access to their environments for follow-on exploitation. "The incident involves a threat actor overwhelming a user's email with junk and...

MantisBT 安全漏洞

MantisBT is a Web-based open source defect tracking system from the MantisBT team. The system provides project management and defect tracking services in a web-operable format. A security vulnerability exists in MantisBT versions prior to 2.26.2, which stems from an issue that exposes sensitive...

MITRE Unveils EMB3D: A Threat-Modeling Framework for Embedded Devices

The MITRE Corporation has officially made available a new threat-modeling framework called EMB3D for makers of embedded devices used in critical infrastructure environments. "The model provides a cultivated knowledge base of cyber threats to embedded devices, providing a common understanding of...

PT-2024-26346 · Gutenify · Gutenify

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Gutenify versions 1.4.0 and earlier Description: The issue is related to the exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor. Recommendations: For versions 1.4.0 and earlier, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue,...