Hackers Exploiting Spring4Shell Vulnerability to Deploy Mirai Botnet Malware

The recently disclosed critical Spring4Shell vulnerability is being actively exploited by threat actors to execute the Mirai botnet malware, particularly in the Singapore region since the start of April 2022. "The exploitation allows threat actors to download the Mirai sample to the '/tmp' folder...

CISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Connected UPS Devices

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Department of Energy DoE are jointly warning of attacks against internet-connected uninterruptible power supply UPS devices by means of default usernames and passwords. "Organizations can mitigate attacks against their UPS...

Linux “Dirty Pipe” vulnerability gives unprivileged users root access

A vulnerability in the Linux kernel, nicknamed "Dirty Pipe", allows an unprivileged user to overwrite data in read-only files. This can lead to privilege escalation as a result of unprivileged processes being able to inject code into root processes. If youre not sure what that means but you think...

SAP customers are urged to patch critical vulnerabilities in multiple products

German enterprise software maker SAP has patched three critical vulnerabilities affecting Internet Communication Manager ICM, a core component of SAP business applications. Customers are urged by both SAP and CISA to address these critical vulnerabilities as soon as possible. On February 8, SAP...

Hackers Exploit Log4j Vulnerability to Infect Computers with Khonsari Ransomware

Romanian cybersecurity technology company Bitdefender on Monday revealed that attempts are being made to target Windows machines with a novel ransomware family called Khonsari as well as a remote access Trojan named Orcus by exploiting the recently disclosed critical Log4j vulnerability. The atta...

Warning: Yet Another Zoho ManageEngine Product Found Under Active Attacks

Enterprise software provider Zoho on Friday warned that a newly patched critical flaw in its Desktop Central and Desktop Central MSP is being actively exploited by malicious actors, marking the third security vulnerability in its products to be abused in the wild in a span of four months. The...

Exchange, Fortinet Flaws Being Exploited by Iranian APT, CISA Warns

A state-backed Iranian threat actor has been using multiple CVEs – including both serious Fortinet vulnerabilities for months and a Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell weakness for weeks – looking to gain a foothold within networks before moving laterally and launching BitLocker ransomware and other...

Experts Detail Malicious Code Dropped Using ManageEngine ADSelfService Exploit

At least nine entities across the technology, defense, healthcare, energy, and education industries were compromised by leveraging a recently patched critical vulnerability in Zoho's ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus self-service password management and single sign-on SSO solution. The spying...

Critical Flaws in Philips TASY EMR Could Expose Patient Data

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is warning of critical vulnerabilities affecting Philips Tasy electronic medical records EMR system that could be exploited by remote threat actors to extract sensitive personal data from patient databases. "Successful exploitation of...

CISA warns of trojanized versions of JavaScript library’s NPM package

By Deeba Ahmed The warning comes days after three rogue packages, okhsa, klow, and klown discovered by DevSecOps firm Sonatype, were removed from the NPM repository. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CISA warns of trojanized versions of JavaScript librarys NPM package...

Protect yourself from BlackMatter ransomware: Advice issued

Despite promises made by the BlackMatter ransomware gang about which organizations and business types they would avoid, multiple US critical infrastructure entities have been targeted. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, in conjunction with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

Microsoft Exchange attacks cause panic as criminals go shell collecting

Only last week we posted a blog about multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server in limited and targeted attacks. Seeing how this disclosure came with a patch being available, under normal circumstances you would see some companies update...

Microsoft Caught Up in SolarWinds Spy Effort, Joining Federal Agencies

UPDATE Microsoft has become the latest victim of the ever-widening SolarWinds-driven cyberattack that has impacted rafts of federal agencies and tech targets. Its president, Brad Smith, warned late Thursday to expect many more victims to come to light as investigations continue. Adversaries were...