APT42 Hackers Pose as Journalists to Harvest Credentials and Access Cloud Data

The Iranian state-backed hacking outfit called APT42 is making use of enhanced social engineering schemes to infiltrate target networks and cloud environments. Targets of the attack include Western and Middle Eastern NGOs, media organizations, academia, legal services and activists, Google Cloud...

NSA, FBI Alert on N. Korean Hackers Spoofing Emails from Trusted Sources

The U.S. government on Thursday published a new cybersecurity advisory warning of North Korean threat actors' attempts to send emails in a manner that makes them appear like they are from legitimate and trusted parties. The joint bulletin was published by the National Security Agency NSA, the...

CVE-2024-2109

The Booster Extension plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.0 via the 'boosterextensionauthorboxshortcodedisplay' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including user emails...

CVE-2024-3897 Popup Box – Best WordPress Popup Plugin <= 4.3.6 - Missing Authorization to Information Exposure

The Popup Box – Best WordPress Popup Plugin plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the ayspbcreateauthor AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.6. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to enumerate all...

PT-2024-18829 · WordPress · Booster Extension

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Booster Extension plugin for WordPress version 1.2.0 and earlier Description: The issue allows unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, including user emails, via the booster extension authorbox shortcode display function...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2023-7028

GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions contain an improper access control vulnerability. This allows an attacker to trigger password reset emails to be sent to an unverified email address to ultimately facilitate an account takeover...

Email Enumeration Attack

org.keycloak, keycloak-parent is vulnerable to Email Enumeration Attack. The vulnerability allows a logged-in user to enumerate valid account emails...

Booster Extension <= 1.2.0 - Basic Information Exposure via booster_extension_authorbox_shortcode_display

Description The Booster Extension plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.0 via the 'boosterextensionauthorboxshortcodedisplay' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data including...

Talos IR trends: BEC attacks surge, while weaknesses in MFA persist

Business email compromise BEC was the top threat observed by Cisco Talos Incident Response Talos IR in the first quarter of 2024, accounting for nearly half of engagements, which is more than double what was observed in the previous quarter. The most observed means of gaining initial access was t...

ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire

Internal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled...

CoralRaider Malware Campaign Exploits CDN Cache to Spread Info-Stealers

A new ongoing malware campaign has been observed distributing three different stealers, such as CryptBot, LummaC2, and Rhadamanthys hosted on Content Delivery Network CDN cache domains since at least February 2024. Cisco Talos has attributed the activity with moderate confidence to a threat actor...

Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects

After the XZ Utils discovery, people have been examining other open-source projects. Surprising no one, the incident is not unique: The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different names and overlapping GitHub-associated...

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Outlook email client for Windows operating systems, which allows attackers to perform spear-phishing attacks

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Outlook email client for Windows operating systems is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform spear-phishing attacks by sending specially crafted email messages...

OpenJS Foundation Targeted in Potential JavaScript Project Takeover Attempt

Security researchers have uncovered a "credible" takeover attempt targeting the OpenJS Foundation in a manner that evokes similarities to the recently uncovered incident aimed at the open-source XZ Utils project. "The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails...

WordPress Customer Reviews for WooCommerce plugin <= 5.46.0 - Missing Authorization to Authenticated (Subscriber+) Arbitrary Email Sending vulnerability

Missing Authorization to Authenticated Subscriber+ Arbitrary Email Sending vulnerability discovered by Thura Moe Myint mgthuramoemyint in WordPress Plugin Customer Reviews for WooCommerce versions = 5.46.0...

U.S. Federal Agencies Ordered to Hunt for Signs of Microsoft Breach and Mitigate Risks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday issued an emergency directive ED 24-02 urging federal agencies to hunt for signs of compromise and enact preventive measures following the recent compromise of Microsoft's systems that led to the theft of email...

Security Updates Outlook for Windows (April 2024)

The Microsoft Outlook application installed on the remote host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by a spoofing vulnerability. External attackers could send specially crafted emails that will cause a connection from the victim to an untrusted location of attackers' control...

Bricksforge < 2.1.1 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Email Sending

Description The Bricksforge plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access due to a missing capability check on the a function in versions up to, and including, 2.0.17. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send arbitrary emails...

CVE-2024-0872

The Watu Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 via the watu-userinfo shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive user meta data which ca...

CVE-2024-0872 Watu Quiz <= 3.4.1 - Sensitive Information Disclosure

The Watu Quiz plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.1 via the watu-userinfo shortcode. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to extract sensitive user meta data which ca...