CVE-2020-28483

This affects all versions of package github.com/gin-gonic/gin. When gin is exposed directly to the internet, a client's IP can be spoofed by setting the X-Forwarded-For header...

Don't Let DDoS Extortionists Deliver a KO Punch

Since mid-August, a variety of threat actors and copycats alike have been targeting organizations across all industries globally, threatening impending DDoS attacks unless Bitcoin is paid out. It's apparent, as the campaign rages on, that some businesses must be paying the extortion demands, --...

2020 DDoS Extortion Campaign -- A Sequel More Thrilling Than the Original

Costarring Susan McReynolds and Tom Emmons As you might imagine, as the go-to enterprise DDoS mitigation experts, our phones have been "ringing off the hook" as the global extortion DDoS campaign sequel rages on. It's bigger, badder, and features a broader cast of criminal characters than seen...

How Cybersecurity Enables Government, Health, EduTech Cope With COVID-19

The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic and the impact on our society has resulted in many dramatic changes to how people are traveling, interacting with each other, and collaborating at work. There are several trends taking place as a consequence of the outbreak, which has only continued to heighten...

CVE-2020-8982

An unauthenticated arbitrary file read issue exists in all versions of Citrix ShareFile StorageZones aka storage zones Controller, including the most recent 5.10.x releases as of May 2020. RCE and file access is granted to everything hosted by ShareFile, be it on-premise or inside Citrix Cloud...

CVE-2020-8982

Summary: CVE-2020-8982 affects Citrix ShareFile StorageZones (Controller) versions through at least 5.10.x. It constitutes an unauthenticated arbitrary file read that can grant access to files stored in ShareFile or Citrix Cloud deployments. The issue’s exploitability depends on the storage zone ...

Critical Zoho Zero-Day Flaw Disclosed

UPDATE A zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed in the IT help desk ManageEngine software made by Zoho Corp. The serious vulnerability enables an unauthenticated, remote attacker to launch attacks on affected systems. Zoho has now released a security update addressing the vulnerability. As of...

GALLIUM: Targeting global telecom

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC is raising awareness of the ongoing activity by a group we call GALLIUM, targeting telecommunication providers. When Microsoft customers have been targeted by this activity, we notified them directly with the relevant information they need to protect...

CVE-2019-17526

An issue was discovered in SageMath Sage Cell Server through 2019-10-05. Python Code Injection can occur in the context of an internet facing web application. Malicious actors can execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system, as demonstrated by an import'os'.popen'whoami'.read...

CVE-2019-17526

SageMath Sage Cell Server is affected by a Python code injection vulnerability (CVE-2019-17526) in internet-facing web applications, demonstrated by import ('os').popen('whoami').read(). The issue is described across multiple sources (NVD, Red Hat, CNVD, Veracode, CVE list, etc.) as allowing arbi...

CVE-2019-17526

An issue was discovered in SageMath Sage Cell Server through 2019-10-05. Python Code Injection can occur in the context of an internet facing web application. Malicious actors can execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system, as demonstrated by an import'os'.popen'whoami'.read...

Privilege escalation

An unauthenticated privilege escalation exists in SailPoint Desktop Password Reset 7.2. A user with local access to only the Windows logon screen can escalate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\System. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit. The attacker must...

Many Factors Conspire in ICS/SCADA Attacks

Critical infrastructure operators can’t be blamed for a perpetual case of whiplash. They are mired between hackers targeting internet-facing and air-gapped systems with equal precision, and vendors and management unwilling to properly tackle security for fear of downtime and incompatibility. “The...

Exploit for OS Command Injection in Gnu Bash

Shellshock exploit + vulnerable envir...

Insecure Redis Instances at Core of Attacks Against Linux Servers

A recent run of attacks against Linux servers called Fairware has been traced to insecure internet-facing Redis installations that hackers have abused to delete web folders and, in some cases, install malicious code. Redis is an open source tool used by web application developers for the purpose ...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- Incorrect error handling in PAM policy parser (6e8f9003-6007-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8)

The OpenPAM library searches for policy definitions in several locations. While doing so, the absence of a policy file is a soft failure handled by searching in the next location while the presence of an invalid file is a hard failure handled by returning an error to the caller. The policy parser...

Patching Bash Vulnerability a Challenge for ICS, SCADA

While the most urgent focus where the Bash vulnerability is concerned is around Internet-facing web servers, embedded systems and industrial control systems are not exempt from worry. Experts are concerned about Linux-based industrial control systems and SCADA equipment, in particular, that may b...

ICS-CERT Confirms Public Utility Compromised Recently

Attackers recently compromised a utility in the United States through an Internet-connected system that gave the attackers access to the utility’s internal control system network. The utility, which has not been named, had remote access enabled on some of its Internet-connected hosts and the...

Researcher Hacks Google Office Management System

Industrial control minded researchers from the security firm Cylance launched a custom exploit against a building management system deployed at Google’s Sydney, Australia office, gaining access to a configuration file containing device administration passwords that could be used to gain complete...

Password Cracker Targets Siemens S7 PLCs

Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers, the same PLC family exploited by the Stuxnet malware, are in the crosshairs of a password-cracking tool that is capable of stealing credentials from industrial control systems. PLCs are microprocessors that automate mechanical processes inside factories,...