Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/09/2024

Black Hat & DEF CON Hopefully folks were able to catch our Rapid7 researchers @zeroSteiner & Jack Heysel show off the Metasploit 6.4's features, focusing on combinations that allow for new, streamlined attack workflows at Black Hat. If not they will also be demoing at DEF CON tomorrow in room W30...

Sonos Speaker Flaws Could Have Let Remote Hackers Eavesdrop on Users

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in Sonos smart speakers that could be exploited by malicious actors to clandestinely eavesdrop on users. The vulnerabilities "led to an entire break in the security of Sonos's secure boot process across a wide range of devices and remotely being...

The top stories coming out of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference

Over the next two weeks, two of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world will take place in Las Vegas: Black Hat and DEF CON. That means product announcements, buzzwords and stories about "X smart appliance could burn your house down!" or something like that. Over the next two weeks, Il...

Black Hat USA 2024: Chip Flaw ‘GhostWrite’ Steals Data from CPU Memory

Black Hat USA 2024: Critical RISC-V CPU vulnerability discovered. Dubbed GhostWrite; attackers can exploit this flaw to steal…...

Black Hat USA 2024: AWS ‘Bucket Monopoly’ Flaw Led to Account Takeover

Black Hat USA 2024 is up and running at full pace as critical AWS vulnerabilities are exposed! Learn…...

Windows Downgrade Attack Risks Exposing Patched Systems to Old Vulnerabilities

Microsoft said it is developing security updates to address two loopholes that it said could be abused to stage downgrade attacks against the Windows update architecture and replace current versions of the operating system files with older versions. The vulnerabilities are listed below -...

De-risk Generative AI: Enterprise TruRisk Platform Advances to Secure AI and LLM Workloads

As we stand at the frontier of technological innovation, artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs are reshaping industries, driving automation, enhancing customer experiences, optimizing processes, and unlocking business opportunities for modern enterprises. However, this rapid...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/02/2024

Metasploit goes to Hacker Summer Camp Next week, Metasploit will have demos at both Black Hat and DEF CON where the latest functionality from this year will be presented. The Black Hat demo will be on Thursday the 8th from 10:10 to 11:25 and the DEF CON demo will be on Saturday the 10th from 12:0...

CVE-2024-39644

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Modernaweb Studio Black Widgets For Elementor allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Black Widgets For Elementor: from n/a through 1.3.5...

CVE-2024-39644

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Modernaweb Studio Black Widgets For Elementor allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Black Widgets For Elementor: from n/a through 1.3.5...

CVE-2024-39644 WordPress Black Widgets For Elementor plugin <= 1.3.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Modernaweb Studio Black Widgets For Elementor allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Black Widgets For Elementor: from n/a through 1.3.5...

CVE-2024-39644

CVE-2024-39644 concerns the WordPress plugin Black Widgets For Elementor (Modernaweb Studio) with stored XSS due to improper neutralization of input during web page generation. Public sources indicate affected versions are up to 1.3.5; a fix exists in 1.3.6. Red Hat and Patchstack corroborate Cro...

CVE-2024-39644 WordPress Black Widgets For Elementor plugin <= 1.3.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Modernaweb Studio Black Widgets For Elementor allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Black Widgets For Elementor: from n/a through 1.3.5...

CVE-2024-39662

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Modernaweb Studio Black Widgets For Elementor allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Black Widgets For Elementor: from n/a through 1.3.5...

CVE-2024-39662

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Modernaweb Studio Black Widgets For Elementor allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Black Widgets For Elementor: from n/a through 1.3.5...

CVE-2024-39662 WordPress Black Widgets For Elementor plugin <= 1.3.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Modernaweb Studio Black Widgets For Elementor allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Black Widgets For Elementor: from n/a through 1.3.5...

CVE-2024-39662

CVE-2024-39662 – Black Widgets For Elementor : Stored XSS in the WordPress plugin Black Widgets For Elementor (

CVE-2024-39662 WordPress Black Widgets For Elementor plugin <= 1.3.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting' vulnerability in Modernaweb Studio Black Widgets For Elementor allows Stored XSS.This issue affects Black Widgets For Elementor: from n/a through 1.3.5...

WordPress Black Widgets For Elementor plugin <= 1.3.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Michael Patchstack Alliance in WordPress Plugin Black Widgets For Elementor versions = 1.3.5...

New Cloud Risk Dashboard: Identifying Toxic Combinations to Drive Faster Remediation

Co-authored by Andrea Ruddy Risks identified within a cloud environment compound to represent a real threat of exploitation. Our cloud risk scoring, introduced recently to insightCloudSec, focuses on these toxic combinations. Toxic combinations are attractive for bad actors who can target multipl...