Leverage Virtual Patching to Prevent Network Threats

Implementing an intrusion prevention system is only one step in your cybersecurity efforts. Learn how virtual patching helps keep your IPS up to date and protect against zero-day threats, keeping your systems safe from attack...

Leverage Virtual Patching to Prevent Network Threats

Implementing an intrusion prevention system is only one step in your cybersecurity efforts. Learn how virtual patching helps keep your IPS up to date and protect against zero-day threats, keeping your systems safe from attack...

BillQuick Billing App Rigged to Inflict Ransomware

Threat actors have been caught exploiting a now-patched zero-day critical vulnerability in a popular timeclock and billing system, to take over vulnerable servers and inflict companies’ networks with ransomware. Discovered by Huntress Labs earlier this month, the ongoing attacks focus on an...

ICONICS GENESIS64 and Mitsubishi Electric MC Works64

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low attack complexity Vendor: ICONICS, Mitsubishi Electric Equipment: ICONICS GENESIS64, Mitsubishi Electric MC Works64 Vulnerabilities: Out-of-bounds Read, Out-of-bounds Write 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may...

Podcast: Could the Zoho Flaw Trigger SolarWinds 2.0?

A month ago, the FBI, CISA and the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command CGCYBER warned that state-backed advanced persistent threat APT actors are likely among those who’d been actively exploiting a critical flaw in a Zoho-owned single sign-on and password management tool since early August. At issue w...

Apple fixes zero-day in iOS and iPadOS 15.0.2 emergency release: Detect and Prioritize Vulnerabilities using VMDR for Mobile Devices

Apple recently released iOS and iPadOS 15.0.2 as an emergency security update that addresses 1 critical zero-day vulnerabilities, which is exploited in wild. Qualys recommends that security teams should immediately update all devices running iOS and iPadOS to the latest version. "Apple is aware o...

Hackers Keep Targeting the US Water Supply

Plus: The biggest Twitch hack, an iOS zero day, and more of the week's top security news...

Rickroll Grad Prank Exposes Exterity IPTV Bug

UPDATE When Township High School District 214 in Illinois got rickrolled all at once across its six different schools just before graduation, it was more than a meticulously executed senior prank. Cybersecurity star-in-the-making and recent high-school graduate Minh Duong found, and was able to...

Microsoft patches a vulnerability that was used in MysterySnail RAT Campaign

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. An APT espionage campaign leveraged a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows to escalate privileges and obtain access to Windows servers. The exploit chain culminated in the installation of a newly discovered remote access...

Update Your Windows PCs Immediately to Patch New 0-Day Under Active Attack

Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out security patches to contain a total of 71 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and other software, including a fix for an actively exploited privilege escalation vulnerability that could be exploited in conjunction with remote code execution bugs to take control ov...

Microsoft Oct. Patch Tuesday Squashes 4 Zero-Day Bugs

Today is Microsoft’s October 2021 Patch Tuesday, and it delivers fixes for four zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which is being exploited in a far-reaching espionage campaign that delivers the new MysterySnail RAT malware to Windows servers. Microsoft reported a total of 74 vulnerabilities, three...

Patch Tuesday, October 2021 Edition

Microsoft today issued updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited. This months Patch Tuesday also includes security fixes for the newly released Windows 11 operating system. Separatel...

Windows Zero-Day Actively Exploited in Widespread Espionage Campaign

Researchers have discovered a zero-day exploit for Microsoft Windows that was being used to elevate privileges and take over Windows servers as part of a Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat APT espionage campaign this summer. The exploit chain ended with a freshly discovered remote access...

MysterySnail attacks with Windows zero-day

Executive Summary In late August and early September 2021, Kaspersky technologies detected attacks with the use of an elevation of privilege exploit on multiple Microsoft Windows servers. The exploit had numerous debug strings from an older, publicly known exploit for vulnerability CVE-2016-3309,...

Apple Releases Urgent iOS Updates to Patch New Zero-Day Bug

Apple on Monday rushed out a security update for iOS 15.0.2 and iPadOS 15.0.2 to fix a remote code-execution RCE zero-day vulnerability that’s being actively exploited. Within hours, a security researcher had picked the bug apart and published both proof-of-concept code and an explanation of the...

Apple Releases Urgent iPhone and iPad Updates to Patch New Zero-Day Vulnerability

Apple on Monday released a security update for iOS and iPad to address a critical vulnerability that it says is being exploited in the wild, making it the 17th zero-day flaw the company has addressed in its products since the start of the year. The weakness, assigned the identifier CVE-2021-30883...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Apache Http_Server

CVE-2021-41773|CVE-2021-42013: Path Traversal Zero-Day in Apac...

For Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities, Patching Remains Patchy

If you've been keeping tabs on the state of vulnerabilities, you've probably noticed that Microsoft Exchange has been in the news more than usual lately. Back in March 2021, Microsoft acknowledged a series of threats exploiting zero-day CVEs in on-premises instances of Exchange Server. Since then...

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Apache HTTP Server

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. There is a zero-day vulnerability CVE-2021-41773 and a DoS vulnerability CVE-2021-41524 in Apache HTTP servers. After a publicly disclosed exploit, the zero-day vulnerability has been actively exploited in the wild. The Hiv...

Apache Warns of Zero-Day Exploit in the Wild — Patch Your Web Servers Now!

Apache has issued patches to address two security vulnerabilities, including a path traversal and file disclosure flaw in its HTTP server that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. "A flaw was found in a change made to path normalization in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49. An attacker could...