Thousands of GitLab instances impacted by multiple security flaws

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered by researchers in GitLab, an open-source DevOps software. Some of these flaws could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to retrieve all information linked to GitLab...

Understanding and Mitigating Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure

Summary Actions Critical Infrastructure Organizations Should Implement to Immediately Strengthen Their Cyber Posture. • Patch all systems. Prioritize patching known exploited vulnerabilities. • Implement multi-factor authentication. • Use antivirus software. • Develop internal contact lists and...

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware By Taylor Mullins · February 28, 2022 BlackByte Ransomware has been in the news of late due to a successful attack against a National Football League NFL Franchise and a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory by the Federal Bureau ...

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware By Taylor Mullins · February 28, 2022 BlackByte Ransomware has been in the news of late due to a successful attack against a National Football League NFL Franchise and a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory by the Federal Bureau ...

Millions of WordPress site backups at risk due to a vulnerability in UpdraftPlus plugin

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here UpdraftPlus is a backup tool for WordPress files, databases, plug-ins, and themes that allows you to create, restore, and migrate backups. UpdraftPlus is utilized by more than three million WordPress websites, according to i...

Apache Cassandra database affected by easily exploitable Remote code execution

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Apache Cassandra is a database software being used by many companies such as Uber, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, Instacart, Reddit, and Accenture. A remote code execution flaw CVE-2021-44521 is reported whi...

VMware addresses security flaws discovered during Tianfu Cup Pwn Contest

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here VMware addressed vulnerabilities in ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation, few months after the discovery of these bugs by participants at Tianfu Cup Pwn Contest. VMware has rated some of these vulnerabilities as...

Critical Magento zero-day vulnerability actively exploiting multiple e-commerce websites

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Adobe issued an emergency advisory informing Adobe Commerce and Magento Open-Source product users of a critical zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. A zero-day vulnerability which has been...

Dropping Files on a Domain Controller Using CVE-2021-43893

On December 14, 2021, during the Log4Shell chaos, Microsoft published CVE-2021-43893, a remote privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Windows Encrypted File System EFS. The vulnerability was credited to James Forshaw of Google Project Zero, but perhaps owing to the Log4Shell atmosphere,...

Zero-day vulnerability in WebKit affects Apple macOS

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A third zero-day vulnerability has been identified since the latest zero-day bugs discovery in macOS Monterey in the year 2022. This flaw impacts the WebKit component, which is a cross-platform web browser engine that is...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses a zero-day vulnerability in Windows Kernel

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Microsoft addressed 51 vulnerabilities in the February 2022 patch Tuesday release, one of which was classified as a zero-day vulnerability. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to gain control of a...

Living Off the Land: How to Defend Against Malicious Use of Legitimate Utilities

Living-off-the-land binaries LOLBins are no joke: Cyberattackers have been increasingly making use of them to hide their malicious work from security solutions. It’s time for threat hunters and IT security staff to familiarize themselves with how these are used in the attack chains of some of the...

2021 Cybersecurity Superlatives: An InsightIDR Year in Review

We laughed, we cried, we added over 750 new detections. It's been a rollercoaster of a year for everyone. So let's have some fun with our 2021 year in review — shall we? The last year was an exciting one for InsightIDR, Rapid7's industry-leading extended detection and response XDR and SIEM...

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats By Trellix · January 31, 2022 This story was written by Raj Samani. Ransomware continues to threaten enterprises and assets around the globe, but it was the discovery of a new vulnerability affecting widely used Log4j library that...

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats By Trellix · January 31, 2022 This story was written by Raj Samani. Ransomware continues to threaten enterprises and assets around the globe, but it was the discovery of a new vulnerability affecting widely used Log4j library that...

Measure the effectiveness of your Microsoft security with AttackIQ

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. To improve an organization’s cybersecurity readiness, you need to test that your detection and prevention technologies work as intended and that your security program is performing a...

Measure the effectiveness of your Microsoft security with AttackIQ

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. To improve an organization’s cybersecurity readiness, you need to test that your detection and prevention technologies work as intended and that your security program is performing a...

NETGEAR XR1000 Trust Management Issue Vulnerability

The NETGEAR xr1000 is a router from Netgear, Inc. A hardware device that connects two or more networks and acts as a gateway between networks, the NETGEAR XR1000 device suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from the fact that NETGEAR XR1000 devices prior to 1.0.0.58 are subject to...

What's New in InsightIDR: Q4 2021 in Review

More context and customization around detections and investigations, expanded dashboard capabilities, and more. This post offers a closer look at some of the recent releases in InsightIDR, our extended detection and response XDR solution, from Q4 2021. Over the past quarter, we delivered updates ...

What the Rise in Cyber-Recon Means for Your Security Strategy

As we move into 2022, bad actors are ramping up their reconnaissance efforts to ensure more successful and more impactful cyberattacks. And that means more zero-day exploits are on the horizon. When seen through an attack chain such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework, campaigns are frequently discusse...