Is the FSI innovation rush leaving your data and application security controls behind?

Fuelled by rising consumer expectations for innovative services and easy real-time access to financial products and information, financial services industries FSI and fintech organizations are racing to out-innovate each other and capture market share. The sizeable growth of investments into the...

Workload Injection

github.com/weaveworks/weave-gitops is vulnerable to workload injection. The library uses an S3 bucket for synchronising files, with no security controls to block unauthorised access in its endpoint, which allows local users on the same machine to see and alter the bucket content...

CVE-2023-22397 Junos OS Evolved: PTX10003: An attacker sending specific genuine packets will cause a memory leak in the PFE leading to a Denial of Service

An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness in the memory management of the Packet Forwarding Engine PFE on Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved PTX10003 Series devices allows an adjacently located attacker who has established certain preconditions and knowledge of the environme...

Italian Users Warned of Malware Attack Targeting Sensitive Information

A new malware campaign has been observed targeting Italy with phishing emails designed to deploy an information stealer on compromised Windows systems. "The info-stealer malware steals sensitive information like system info, crypto wallet and browser histories, cookies, and credentials of crypto...

GHSA-WR3C-G326-486C GitOps Run allows for Kubernetes workload injection

Impact A vulnerability in GitOps run could allow a local user or process to alter a Kubernetes cluster's resources. GitOps run has a local S3 bucket which it uses for synchronising files that are later applied against a Kubernetes cluster. Its endpoint had no security controls to block unauthoris...

GitOps Run allows for Kubernetes workload injection

Impact A vulnerability in GitOps run could allow a local user or process to alter a Kubernetes cluster's resources. GitOps run has a local S3 bucket which it uses for synchronising files that are later applied against a Kubernetes cluster. Its endpoint had no security controls to block unauthoris...

CVE-2022-23508 GitOps Run allows for Kubernetes workload injection

Weave GitOps is a simple open source developer platform for people who want cloud native applications, without needing Kubernetes expertise. A vulnerability in GitOps run could allow a local user or process to alter a Kubernetes cluster's resources. GitOps run has a local S3 bucket which it uses...

CVE-2022-23508 GitOps Run allows for Kubernetes workload injection

Weave GitOps is a simple open source developer platform for people who want cloud native applications, without needing Kubernetes expertise. A vulnerability in GitOps run could allow a local user or process to alter a Kubernetes cluster's resources. GitOps run has a local S3 bucket which it uses...

GHSA-CM9X-C3RH-7RC4 CRI-O vulnerable to /etc/passwd tampering resulting in Privilege Escalation

Impact It is possible to craft an environment variable with newlines to add entries to a container's /etc/passwd. It is possible to circumvent admission validation of username/UID by adding such an entry. Note: because the pod author is in control of the container's /etc/passwd, this is not...

Cyber Insurance Policy Underwriting Explained

Cybersecurity insurance is a must have for organizations of any size. John Hennessy, RVP at Cowbell discusses cyber insurance policy underwriting process, market trends, and the key security controls for businesses...

About Anomalous Data Transfer detection in InsightIDR

By Shivangi Pandey Shivangi is a Senior Product Manager for D&R at Rapid7. Data exfiltration is an unauthorized movement or transfer of data occurring on an organization’s network. This can occur when a malicious actor gains access to a corporation’s network with the intention of stealing or...

The vulnerability of Symantec Endpoint Protection’s antivirus software lies in its ability to bypass security elements, allowing attackers to circumvent password protection for security policy import/export.

The vulnerability of the Symantec Endpoint Protection antivirus software is related to the possibility of bypassing security elements. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a hacker to circumvent password protection for security policy import/export...

Security feature bypass

Symantec Endpoint Protection Windows agent, prior to 14.3 RU6/14.3 RU5 Patch 1, may be susceptible to a Security Control Bypass vulnerability, which is a type of issue that can potentially allow a threat actor to circumvent existing security controls. This CVE applies narrowly to the Client User...

Token tactics: How to prevent, detect, and respond to cloud token theft

As organizations increase their coverage of multifactor authentication MFA, threat actors have begun to move to more sophisticated techniques to allow them to compromise corporate resources without needing to satisfy MFA. Recently, the Microsoft Detection and Response Team DART has seen an increa...

How businesses are gaining integrated data protection with Microsoft Purview

Currently, our interconnected world is creating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day.1 Every purchase made, every email sent, every contract signed: all of it gets shared, accessed, and stored. We take it on faith that organizations are doing all this safely; however, data loss is becoming a...

DEV-0832 (Vice Society) opportunistic ransomware campaigns impacting US education sector

In recent months, Microsoft has detected active ransomware and extortion campaigns impacting the global education sector, particularly in the US, by a threat actor we track as DEV-0832, also known as Vice Society. Shifting ransomware payloads over time from BlackCat, QuantumLocker, and Zeppelin,...

Securing Applications in a Multicloud World

Widespread adoption of multicloud architecture presents challenges in securing applications. Learn about the benefits of deploying security controls on the edge...

Microsoft publishes new report on holistic insider risk management

The risk landscape for organizations has changed significantly in the past few years. The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes through 2025.1 Traditional ways of identifying and mitigating risks don’t always work. Historically, organization...

Prepare Your Organization for Compliance with the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation

Cyberattacks are on the rise, with bad actors accelerating their nefarious exfiltration of valuable and confidential data from financial institutions, Federal agencies, healthcare organizations, and more. According to an IBM study, the Financial Services industry saw an increase in the cost of da...

L2 network security controls can be bypassed using VLAN 0 stacking and/or 802.3 headers

Overview Layer-2 L2 network security controls provided by various devices, such as switches, routers, and operating systems, can be bypassed by stacking Ethernet protocol headers. An attacker can send crafted packets through vulnerable devices to cause Denial-of-service DoS or to perform a...