Critical Vulnerability Alert: VMware Aria Operations Networks at Risk from Remote Attacks

VMware has released software updates to correct two security vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks that could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution. The most severe of the flaws is CVE-2023-34039 CVSS score: 9.8, which relates to a case of...

FBI confirms Barracuda patch is not effective for exploited ESG appliances

In an FBI Flash about a Barracuda ESG vulnerability, listed as CVE-2023-2868, the FBI has stated that the patches released by Barracuda in response to this CVE were ineffective for anyone previously infected. Although both Barracude and Mandiant have already made this determination, the agency sa...

LockBit 3.0 Ransomware Builder Leak Gives Rise to Hundreds of New Variants

The leak of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware builder last year has led to threat actors abusing the tool to spawn new variants. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said it detected a ransomware intrusion that deployed a version of LockBit but with a markedly different ransom demand procedure. "The...

New "Whiffy Recon" Malware Triangulates Infected Device Location via Wi-Fi Every Minute

The SmokeLoader malware is being used to deliver a new Wi-Fi scanning malware strain called Whiffy Recon on compromised Windows machines. "The new malware strain has only one operation. Every 60 seconds it triangulates the infected systems' positions by scanning nearby Wi-Fi access points as a da...

GHSA-X2MH-8FMC-RQGH Apache Airflow denial of service vulnerability

Apache Airflow, in versions prior to 2.7.0, contains a security vulnerability that can be exploited by an authenticated user possessing Connection edit privileges. This vulnerability allows the user to access connection information and exploit the test connection feature by sending many requests,...

Apache Airflow denial of service vulnerability

Apache Airflow, in versions prior to 2.7.0, contains a security vulnerability that can be exploited by an authenticated user possessing Connection edit privileges. This vulnerability allows the user to access connection information and exploit the test connection feature by sending many requests,...

HiatusRAT Malware Resurfaces: Taiwan Firms and U.S. Military Under Attack

The threat actors behind the HiatusRAT malware have returned from their hiatus with a new wave of reconnaissance and targeting activity aimed at Taiwan-based organizations and a U.S. military procurement system. Besides recompiling malware samples for different architectures, the artifacts are sa...

New BlackCat Ransomware Variant Adopts Advanced Impacket and RemCom Tools

Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it found a new version of the BlackCat ransomware aka ALPHV and Noberus that embeds tools like Impacket and RemCom to facilitate lateral movement and remote code execution. "The Impacket tool has credential dumping and remote service execution modules that cou...

CVE-2023-39974

Exposure of Sensitive Information vulnerability in AcyMailing Enterprise component for Joomla. It allows unauthorized actors to get the number of subscribers in a specific list...

CVE-2023-39974 Extension - acymailing.com - Exposure of Sensitive Information in AcyMailing Enterprise component for Joomla 6.7.0-8.6.3

Exposure of Sensitive Information vulnerability in AcyMailing Enterprise component for Joomla. It allows unauthorized actors to get the number of subscribers in a specific list...

CVE-2023-40165

rubygems.org is the Ruby community's primary gem library hosting service. Insufficient input validation allowed malicious actors to replace any uploaded gem version that had a platform, version number, or gem name matching /-\d/, permanently replacing the legitimate upload in the canonical gem...

Input validation

rubygems.org is the Ruby community's primary gem library hosting service. Insufficient input validation allowed malicious actors to replace any uploaded gem version that had a platform, version number, or gem name matching /-\d/, permanently replacing the legitimate upload in the canonical gem...

CVE-2023-40165 Unauthorized gem replacement for full names ending in numbers on rubygems.org

rubygems.org is the Ruby community's primary gem library hosting service. Insufficient input validation allowed malicious actors to replace any uploaded gem version that had a platform, version number, or gem name matching /-\d/, permanently replacing the legitimate upload in the canonical gem...

CVE-2023-40165

The CVE-2023-40165 entry concerns RubyGems.org, the Ruby community gem hosting service. The vulnerability arose from insufficient input validation that allowed replacement of uploaded gems whose platform, version, or gem name matched “/-\d/,” enabling a malicious upload to temporarily override a ...

CVE-2023-40165 Unauthorized gem replacement for full names ending in numbers on rubygems.org

rubygems.org is the Ruby community's primary gem library hosting service. Insufficient input validation allowed malicious actors to replace any uploaded gem version that had a platform, version number, or gem name matching /-\d/, permanently replacing the legitimate upload in the canonical gem...

CISA Adds Citrix ShareFile Flaw to KEV Catalog Due to In-the-Wild Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added a critical security flaw in Citrix ShareFile storage zones controller to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active in-the-wild exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2023-24489 CVSS score: 9.8, the...

CVE-2023-33237

TN-5900 Series firmware version v3.3 and prior is vulnerable to improper-authentication vulnerability. This vulnerability arises from inadequate authentication measures implemented in the web API handler, allowing low-privileged APIs to execute restricted actions that only high-privileged APIs ar...

Authentication flaw

TN-5900 Series firmware version v3.3 and prior is vulnerable to improper-authentication vulnerability. This vulnerability arises from inadequate authentication measures implemented in the web API handler, allowing low-privileged APIs to execute restricted actions that only high-privileged APIs ar...

Malvertisers up their game against researchers

Threat actors constantly take notice of the work and takedown efforts initiated by security researchers. In this constant game of cat and mouse chasing, tactics and techniques keep evolving from simple to more complex, and more covert. This is a trend we have observed time and time again, no matt...

What's the State of Credential theft in 2023?

At a little overt halfway through 2023, credential theft is still a major thorn in the side of IT teams. The heart of the problem is the value of data to cybercriminals and the evolution of the techniques they use to get hold of it. The 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR revealed...