Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-37303

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Synapse is an open-source Matrix homeserver. Synapse before version 1.106 allows, by design, unauthenticated remote participants to trigger a download and cachi...

Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets

Here's a supply-chain attack just waiting to happen. A group of researchers searched for, and then registered, abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for about $400. These buckets contained software libraries that are still used. Presumably the projects don't realize that they have been abandoned, and still...

CVE-2024-36402

Matrix Media Repo MMR is a highly configurable multi-homeserver media repository for Matrix. MMR before version 1.3.5 allows, by design, unauthenticated remote participants to trigger a download and caching of remote media from a remote homeserver to the local media repository. Such content then...

Cross-Domain Attacks: A Growing Threat to Modern Security and How to Combat Them

In the past year, cross-domain attacks have gained prominence as an emerging tactic among adversaries. These operations exploit weak points across multiple domains – including endpoints, identity systems and cloud environments – so the adversary can infiltrate organizations, move laterally and...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Matrix-synapse is vulnerable to Denial Of Service. The vulnerability is due to insufficient rate limiting, allowing unauthenticated adversaries to trigger excessive remote media downloads and caching, potentially causing disk exhaustion and service unavailability...

Synapse's unauthenticated writes to the media repository allow planting of problematic content

Impact Synapse before version 1.106 allows, by design, unauthenticated remote participants to trigger a download and caching of remote media from a remote homeserver to the local media repository. Such content then also becomes available for download from the local homeserver in an unauthenticate...

More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump’s Return Means for US Cybersecurity

Experts expect Donald Trump’s next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights, and take an aggressive stance against the cyber armies of US adversaries...

Why your vote can’t be “hacked,” with Cait Conley of CISA (Lock and Code S05E23)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … The US presidential election is upon the American public, and with it come fears of "election interference." But "election interference" is a broad term. It can mean the now-regular and expected foreign disinformation campaigns that are launched to sow...

How to Plan and Prepare for Penetration Testing

As security technology and threat awareness among organizations improves so do the adversaries who are adopting and relying on new techniques to maximize speed and impact while evading detection. Ransomware and malware continue to be the method of choice by big game hunting BGH cyber criminals, a...

Backdoor.Win32.BlackAngel.13 MVID-2024-0695 Code Execution

Discovery / credits: Malvuln John Page aka hyp3rlinx c 2024 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/d1523df44da5fd40df92602b8ded59c8.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: x.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.BlackAngel.13 Vulnerability: Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution Description...

Backdoor.Win32.CCInvader.10 MVID-2024-0694 Authentication Bypass

Discovery / credits: Malvuln John Page aka hyp3rlinx c 2024 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/cb86af8daa35f6977c80814ec6e40d63.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: x.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.CCInvader.10 Vulnerability: Authentication Bypass Description: The malware runs a...

Microsoft Warns of Surge in Cyber Attacks Targeting Internet-Exposed OT Devices

Microsoft has emphasized the need for securing internet-exposed operational technology OT devices following a spate of cyber attacks targeting such environments since late 2023. "These repeated attacks against OT devices emphasize the crucial need to improve the security posture of OT devices and...

See a Sneak Peek of Tuesday’s Take Command Summit

In just a few short days, some of the best minds in cybersecurity will come together at Take Command to discuss the most pressing challenges and opportunities we face as an industry. The sessions include in-depth discussions on attacker trends and behaviors, a look into the Rapid7 SOC, top guest...

TYPO3 vulnerable to an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in the ShowImageController

Problem The ShowImageController eID txcmsshowpic lacks a cryptographic HMAC-signature on the frame HTTP query parameter e.g. /index.php?eID=txcmsshowpic?file=3&...&frame=12345. This allows adversaries to instruct the system to produce an arbitrary number of thumbnail images on the server side...

TYPO3 vulnerable to an HTML Injection in the History Module

Problem The history backend module is vulnerable to HTML injection. Although Content-Security-Policy headers effectively prevent JavaScript execution, adversaries can still inject malicious HTML markup. Exploiting this vulnerability requires a valid backend user account. Solution Update to TYPO3...

CVE-2024-34358 TYPO3 vulnerable to an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in the ShowImageController

TYPO3 is an enterprise content management system. Starting in version 9.0.0 and prior to versions 9.5.48 ELTS, 10.4.45 ELTS, 11.5.37 LTS, 12.4.15 LTS, and 13.1.1, the ShowImageController eID txcmsshowpic lacks a cryptographic HMAC-signature on the frame HTTP query parameter e.g...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : binutils Vulnerability (NS-SA-2024-0013)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has binutils packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - An issue was discovered in the Bidirectional Algorithm in the Unicode Specification through 14.0. It permits the visual reordering of characters via contro...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 4 to 10 March 2024

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries in the realm of cybersecurity threats. In the past week alone, a total of seven attacks were executed, four vulnerabilities were uncovered, and two active adversaries were...

QEMU Emulator Exploited as Tunneling Tool to Breach Company Network

Threat actors have been observed leveraging the QEMU open-source hardware emulator as tunneling software during a cyber attack targeting an unnamed "large company" to connect to their infrastructure. While a number of legitimate tunneling tools like Chisel, FRP, ligolo, ngrok, and Plink have been...

You’re going to start seeing more tax-related spam, but remember, that doesn’t actually mean there’s more spam

Its that time of the year when not only do you have to be worried about filing your federal taxes in the U.S., you must also be on the lookout for a whole manner of tax-related scams. These are something that pop up every year through email, texts, phone calls and even physical mail -- phony...