A new alert system from CISA seems to be effective — now we just need companies to sign up

One of the great cybersecurity challenges organizations currently face, especially smaller ones, is that they dont know what they dont know. Its tough to have your eyes on everything all the time, especially with so many pieces of software running and IoT devices extending the reach of networks...

Hackers Exploiting LiteSpeed Cache Bug to Gain Full Control of WordPress Sites

A high-severity flaw impacting the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue admin accounts on susceptible websites. The findings come from WPScan, which said that the vulnerability CVE-2023-40000, CVSS score: 8.3 has been leveraged to set u...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 29 April to 5 May 2024

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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog April 2024

Summary The Known Exploited Vulnerability KEV catalog, maintained by CISA, is the authoritative source of vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild. It is recommended that all organizations review and monitor the KEV catalog, prioritize remediation of listed vulnerabilities, and reduce...

Summary of Vulnerabilities, Actors & Attacks: April 2024

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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...

CISA and FBI Release Secure by Design Alert to Urge Manufacturers to Eliminate Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities

Today, CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI released a joint Secure by Design Alert, Eliminating Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities in Software. This Alert was crafted in response to recent well-publicized threat actor campaigns that exploited directory traversal vulnerabilities in...

Malwarebytes Premium Security earns “Product of the Year” from AVLab

After blocking 100% of “in-the-wild” malware samples that were deployed in multiple, consecutive third-party tests conducted by the AVLab Cybersecurity Foundation, Malwarebytes Premium Security has earned “Product of the Year.” The recognition cements Malwarebytes Premium Security’s perfect recor...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 22 to 28 April 2024

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Managed Detection and Response in 2023

Managed Detection and Response in 2023 PDF Alongside other security solutions, we provide Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response MDR to organizations worldwide, delivering expert monitoring and incident response 24/7. The task involves collecting telemetry for analysis by both machine-learning ...

Bogus npm Packages Used to Trick Software Developers into Installing Malware

An ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting software developers with bogus npm packages under the guise of a job interview to trick them into downloading a Python backdoor. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is tracking the activity under the name DEVPOPPER, linking it to North Korean threat...

Researchers Detail Multistage Attack Hijacking Systems with SSLoad, Cobalt Strike

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ongoing attack campaign that's leveraging phishing emails to deliver a malware called SSLoad. The campaign, codenamed FROZENSHADOW by Securonix, also involves the deployment of Cobalt Strike and the ConnectWise ScreenConnect remote desktop software...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 15 to 21 April 2024

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MITRE Corporation Breached by Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Ivanti Flaws

The MITRE Corporation revealed that it was the target of a nation-state cyber attack that exploited two zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances starting in January 2024. The intrusion led to the compromise of its Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment NERVE...

Hackers Exploit OpenMetadata Flaws to Mine Crypto on Kubernetes

Threat actors are actively exploiting critical vulnerabilities in OpenMetadata to gain unauthorized access to Kubernetes workloads and leverage them for cryptocurrency mining activity. That's according to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team, which said the flaws have been weaponized since the...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 8 to 14 April 2024

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AWS Amplify CLI has incorrect trust policy management

Amazon AWS Amplify CLI before 12.10.1 incorrectly configures the role trust policy of IAM roles associated with Amplify projects. When the Authentication component is removed from an Amplify project, a Condition property is removed but "Effect":"Allow" remains present, and consequently...

CVE-2024-28056

Amazon AWS Amplify CLI before 12.10.1 incorrectly configures the role trust policy of IAM roles associated with Amplify projects. When the Authentication component is removed from an Amplify project, a Condition property is removed but "Effect":"Allow" remains present, and consequently...

Constallation has pods exposed to peers in VPC

Impact Cilium allows outside actors world entity to directly access pods with their internal pod IP, even if they are not exposed explicitly e.g. via LoadBalancer. A pod that does not authenticate clients and that does not exclude world traffic via network policy may leak sensitive data to an...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-24898

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in openEuler kernel on Linux allows Resource Leak Exposure. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://gitee.Com/openeuler/kernel/blob/openEuler-1.0-LTS/drivers/staging/gmjstcm/tcm.C. This issue affects...