CVE-2024-1021

CVE-2024-1021 affects Rebuild versions up to 3.5.5, where the readRawText function in the HTTP Request Handler is vulnerable to server-side request forgery via the url parameter. This can allowremote exploitation and may enable access to internal resources. Public exploit information is present i...

Control D Launches Control D for Organizations: Democratizing Cybersecurity

By cyberwire Toronto, Canada, January 29th, 2024, Cyberwire - In an era where online threats no longer discriminate by business… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Control D Launches Control D for Organizations: Democratizing Cybersecurity...

Cybersecurity Must De-Risk the Business

The Catalyst for My Return to Qualys “Necessity is the mother of all invention.” – Plato Introduction Cybersecurity as a problem and practice is evolving. This evolution is driven by business risk. Does this sound obvious? For far too long, we in security have put the technology cart way ahead of...

Bruce Schneier predicts a future of AI-powered mass spying: Lock and Code S05E03

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… If the internet helped create the era of mass surveillance, then artificial intelligence will bring about an era of mass spying. That’s the latest prediction from noted cryptographer and computer security professional Bruce Schneier, who, in December, share...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise also searched by Cozy Bear

Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE has disclosed that the state-sponsored actor known as Cozy Bear aka Midnight Blizzard, gained unauthorized access to HPE’s cloud-based email environment. This news comes only days after Microsoft broke very similar news that it got hacked by this same state sponsore...

Microsoft Executives Hacked

Microsoft is reporting that a Russian intelligence agency--the same one responsible for SolarWinds--accessed the email system of the companys executives. Beginning in late November 2023, the threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account and ga...

Riding the AI Waves: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence to Combat Cyber Threats

In nearly every segment of our lives, AI artificial intelligence now makes a significant impact: It can deliver better healthcare diagnoses and treatments; detect and reduce the risk of financial fraud; improve inventory management; and serve up the right recommendation for a streaming movie on...

Albabat, Kasseika, Kuiper: New Ransomware Gangs Rise with Rust and Golang

Cybersecurity researchers have detected in the wild yet another variant of the Phobos ransomware family known as Faust. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which detailed the latest iteration of the ransomware, said it's being propagated by means of an infection that delivers a Microsoft Excel document .XL...

NSA Admits Secretly Buying Your Internet Browsing Data without Warrants

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA has admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to identify the websites and apps Americans use that would otherwise require a court order, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said last week. "The U.S. government should not be funding and legitimizing a...

CVE-2024-0697

CVE-2024-0697 affects the WordPress plugin “Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone” up to version 1.2.3. Affected component: backuply_get_jstree using the node_id parameter, enabling a Directory Traversal that allows attackers with Administrator privileges or higher to read arbitrary serve...

Russian TrickBot Mastermind Gets 5-Year Prison Sentence for Cybercrime Spree

40-year-old Russian national Vladimir Dunaev has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison for his role in creating and distributing the TrickBot malware, the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ said. The development comes nearly two months after Dunaev pleaded guilty to committing comput...

Vinchin Backup And Recovery 7.2 Default MySQL Credentials

CVE ID: CVE-2024-22901 Title: Default MYSQL Credentials Vulnerability in Vinchin Backup & Recovery v7.2 Description: A critical security issue, identified as CVE-2024-22901, has been discovered in Vinchin Backup & Recovery version 7.2. The software has been found to use default MYSQL credentials,...

Why is the cost of cyber insurance rising?

I just bought an electric car last week, so Ive been shopping for new car insurance policies that could offer me a discount for ditching gas. Were all familiar with the boring process of entering the same information 10 times over into 10 different companies websites trying to see who comes out t...

Exploit for Improper Authentication in Ivanti Connect_Secure

PoC exploit for CVE-2023-46805, an RCE vulnerability in Ivanti...

SystemBC Malware's C2 Server Analysis Exposes Payload Delivery Tricks

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the command-and-control C2 server workings of a known malware family called SystemBC. "SystemBC can be purchased on underground marketplaces and is supplied in an archive containing the implant, a command-and-control C2 server, and a web administration...

Security Operations (SecOps)

Understanding the Basics of Security Operations SecOps SecOps represents the blending of cybersecurity proficiency with operational domains, forming a powerful bulwark. Its primary mission lies in safeguarding the fundamental data assets and technological infrastructures of an organization. More...

Critical Jenkins Vulnerability Exposes Servers to RCE Attacks - Patch ASAP!

The maintainers of the open-source continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment CI/CD automation software Jenkins have resolved nine security flaws, including a critical bug that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution RCE. The issue, assigned the CVE...

LODEINFO Fileless Malware Evolves with Anti-Analysis and Remote Code Tricks

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an updated version of a backdoor called LODEINFO that's distributed via spear-phishing attacks. The findings come from Japanese company ITOCHU Cyber & Intelligence, which said the malware "has been updated with new features, as well as changes to the...

China-backed Hackers Hijack Software Updates to Implant "NSPX30" Spyware

A previously undocumented China-aligned threat actor has been linked to a set of adversary-in-the-middle AitM attacks that hijack update requests from legitimate software to deliver a sophisticated implant named NSPX30. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET is tracking the advanced persistent threat APT...

New CherryLoader Malware Mimics CherryTree to Deploy PrivEsc Exploits

A new Go-based malware loader called CherryLoader has been discovered by threat hunters in the wild to deliver additional payloads onto compromised hosts for follow-on exploitation. Arctic Wolf Labs, which discovered the new attack tool in two recent intrusions, said the loader's icon and name...