CVE-2020-35948

An issue was discovered in the XCloner Backup and Restore plugin before 4.2.13 for WordPress. It gave authenticated attackers the ability to modify arbitrary files, including PHP files. Doing so would allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution. The xclonerrestore.php writefileaction could...

CVE-2020-35948

An issue was discovered in the XCloner Backup and Restore plugin before 4.2.13 for WordPress. It gave authenticated attackers the ability to modify arbitrary files, including PHP files. Doing so would allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution. The xclonerrestore.php writefileaction could...

Remote code execution

An issue was discovered in the XCloner Backup and Restore plugin before 4.2.13 for WordPress. It gave authenticated attackers the ability to modify arbitrary files, including PHP files. Doing so would allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution. The xclonerrestore.php writefileaction could...

CVE-2020-35948

An issue was discovered in the XCloner Backup and Restore plugin before 4.2.13 for WordPress. It gave authenticated attackers the ability to modify arbitrary files, including PHP files. Doing so would allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution. The xclonerrestore.php writefileaction could...

CVE-2020-35948

The CVE-2020-35948 issue affects the WordPress plugin XCloner Backup and Restore (versions prior to 4.2.13). The root cause is an insecure write_file_action in xcloner_restore.php that can overwrite files (e.g., wp-config.php), enabling authenticated attackers to modify arbitrary files and achiev...

Newsletter Manager <= 1.5.1 - Unauthenticated Insecure Deserialisation

The plugin is affected by an insecure deserialisation issue, which could lead to an unauthenticated PHP object injection when a suitable gadget chain is present...

Using Microsoft 365 Defender to protect against Solorigate

Microsoft security researchers continue to investigate and respond to the sophisticated cyberattack known as Solorigate also referred to as Sunburst by FireEye involving a supply chain compromise and the subsequent compromise of cloud assets. While the related investigations and impact assessment...

Russia’s SolarWinds Attack

Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but thats wrong on two accounts. It wasnt a cyberattack in international relations terms, it was espionage. And the victim wasnt just the US, it was the entire world. But it was massive, an...

The Worst Hacks of 2020, a Surreal Pandemic Year

From ransomware schemes to supply chain attacks, this year melded classic hacks with extraordinary circumstances...

Microsoft Warns CrowdStrike of Hackers Targeting Azure Cloud Customers

New evidence amidst the ongoing probe into the espionage campaign targeting SolarWinds has uncovered an unsuccessful attempt to compromise cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and access the company's email. The hacking endeavor was reported to the company by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center on...

North Korean Hackers Trying to Steal COVID-19 Vaccine Research

Threat actors such as the notorious Lazarus group are continuing to tap into the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine research to steal sensitive information to speed up their countries' vaccine-development efforts. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky detailed two incidents at a pharmaceutical company and a...

North Korean Hackers Trying to Steal COVID-19 Vaccine Research

Threat actors such as the notorious Lazarus group are continuing to tap into the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine research to steal sensitive information to speed up their countries' vaccine-development efforts. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky detailed two incidents at a pharmaceutical company and a...

SUNBURST Additional Technical Details

FireEye has discovered additional details about the SUNBURST backdoor since our initial publication on Dec. 13, 2020. Before diving into the technical depth of this malware, we recommend readers familiarize themselves with our blog post about the SolarWinds supply chain compromise, which revealed...

How we protect our users against the Sunburst backdoor

What happened SolarWinds, a well-known IT managed services provider, has recently become a victim of a cyberattack. Their product Orion Platform, a solution for monitoring and managing their customers IT infrastructure, was compromised by threat actors. This resulted in the deployment of a custom...

Lazarus covets COVID-19-related intelligence

As the COVID-19 crisis grinds on, some threat actors are trying to speed up vaccine development by any means available. We have found evidence that actors, such as the Lazarus group, are going after intelligence that could help these efforts by attacking entities related to COVID-19 research. Whi...

CISA Releases CISA Insights and Creates Webpage on Ongoing APT Cyber Activity

CISA is tracking a known compromise involving SolarWinds Orion products that are currently being exploited by a malicious actor. An advanced persistent threat APT actor is responsible for compromising the SolarWinds Orion software supply chain, as well as widespread abuse of commonly used...

Two groups might have breached SolarWinds Orion software- Microsoft

By Deeba Ahmed The ongoing investigation into the SolarWinds supply chain cyberattack indicates the involvement of another APT group. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Two groups might have breached SolarWinds Orion software- Microsoft...

Threat Advisory: SolarWinds supply chain attack

Update 12/21: IOC section updated to include new information and associated stage. Update 12/18: We have been able to verify the name server for the DGA domain was updated as far back as late February. Compromised binaries appear to have been available on the SolarWinds website until very recentl...

A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says

As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider's Orion software to drop a similar persistent backdoor on target systems. "The investigation of the...

A Second Hacker Group May Have Also Breached SolarWinds, Microsoft Says

As the probe into the SolarWinds supply chain attack continues, new digital forensic evidence has brought to light that a separate threat actor may have been abusing the IT infrastructure provider's Orion software to drop a similar persistent backdoor on target systems. "The investigation of the...