CVE-2023-20198: Active Exploitation of Cisco IOS XE Zero-Day Vulnerability

On Monday, October 16, Cisco’s Talos group published a blog on an active threat campaign exploiting CVE-2023-20198, a “previously unknown” zero-day vulnerability in the web UI component of Cisco IOS XE software. IOS XE is an operating system that runs on a wide range of Cisco networking devices,...

An analysis of an in-the-wild iOS Safari WebContent to GPU Process exploit

By Ian Beer A graph representation of the sandbox escape NSExpression payload In April this year Google's Threat Analysis Group, in collaboration with Amnesty International, discovered an in-the-wild iPhone zero-day exploit chain being used in targeted attacks delivered via malicious link. The...

The vulnerability of backup and data recovery software on computers and servers with Acronis Agent, as well as Acronis Cyber Protect 15, stems from the use of unlimited IP addresses. This leads to an increase in the surface area for attacks, allowing attackers to gain unauthorized access to the system.

The vulnerability of backup and data recovery software on computers and servers involves Acronis Agent and Acronis CyberProtect 15 data protection software. This vulnerability is related to the use of an unlimited IP address, which increases the scope of possible attacks. Exploiting this...

A Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Guide for Leaders

Cybersecurity risk assessment provides the continuous asset detection, analysis, prioritization, and risk scoring needed to keep pace with a continuously growing digital attack surface...

Protecting your IT infrastructure with Security Configuration Assessment (SCA)

Security Configuration Assessment SCA is critical to an organization's cybersecurity strategy. SCA aims to discover vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that malicious actors exploit to gain unauthorized access to systems and data. Regular security configuration assessments are essential in...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023: 4 Actionable Tips

Make Cybersecurity Awareness Month a year-long initiative with these three actionable security tips to reduce cyber risk across the attack surface...

2023 OWASP Top-10 Series: API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management

Welcome to the 10th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API9:2023 Improper Inventory Management. In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impac...

Wallarm Webinar: NIST CSF 2.0, API Security, and CISO Imperatives

Last week, our good friend Raj Umadas, Director of Security at ActBlue, teamed up with our very own Tim Erlin, Head of Product, to talk about the newly proposed NIST Cybersecurity Framework CSF. It was a fantastic discussion covering the intent behind this update, the major changes from v1.1 to...

Think Your MFA and PAM Solutions Protect You? Think Again

When you roll out a security product, you assume it will fulfill its purpose. Unfortunately, however, this often turns out not to be the case. A new report, produced by Osterman Research and commissioned by Silverfort, reveals that MFA Multi-Factor Authentication and PAM Privileged Access...

China Unicom TEWA-800G Log Information Disclosure Vulnerability

The China Unicom TEWA-800G is a router from China Unicom China Unicom. A log information disclosure vulnerability exists in the China Unicom TEWA-800G version 4.16L.04CT2015Yueme, which stems from a debug log file that discloses sensitive information. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability ...

Security Updates for Windows Defender (September 2023)

The Malware Protection Engine version of Microsoft Windows Defender installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 1.1.23080.2005. It is, therefore, affected by an attack surface reduction vulnerability due to security features bypass. A remote attacker can trick a victim to open a specially...

CVE-2023-38163

Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction Security Feature Bypass...

CVE-2023-38163

Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction Security Feature Bypass...

Security feature bypass

Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction Security Feature Bypass...

CVE-2023-38163 Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction Security Feature Bypass

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Windows Defender Attack Surface Reduction Security Feature Bypass

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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-4576

On Windows, an integer overflow could occur in RecordedSourceSurfaceCreation which resulted in a heap buffer overflow potentially leaking sensitive data that could have led to a sandbox escape. This bug only affects Firefox on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected. This vulnerability...

Cybercriminals Weaponizing Legitimate Advanced Installer Tool in Crypto-Mining Attacks

A legitimate Windows tool used for creating software packages called Advanced Installer is being abused by threat actors to drop cryptocurrency-mining malware on infected machines since at least November 2021. "The attacker uses Advanced Installer to package other legitimate software installers,...

Cloud storage security: What’s new in the threat matrix

Today, we announce the release of a second version of the threat matrix for storage services, a structured tool that assists in identifying and analyzing potential security threats on data stored in cloud storage services. The matrix, first released in April 2021 as detailed in the blog post Thre...

CVE-2023-23623

Electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. A Content-Security-Policy that disables eval, specifically setting a script-src directive and not providing unsafe-eval in that directive, is not respected in renderers that have sandb...