CISA Issues Emergency Directive and Releases Advisory Related to VMware Vulnerabilities

CISA has issued Emergency Directive ED 22-03 and released a Cybersecurity Advisory CSA in response to active and expected exploitation of multiple vulnerabilities in the following VMware products: VMware Workspace ONE Access Access, VMware Identity Manager vIDM, VMware vRealize Automation vRA,...

DEA Investigating Breach of Law Enforcement Data Portal

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration DEA says it is investigating reports that hackers gained unauthorized access to an agency portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. KrebsOnSecurity has learned the alleged compromise is tied to a cybercrime and online harassment...

Conti Ransomware Attack Spurs State of Emergency in Costa Rica

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of national cybersecurity emergency over the weekend following a financially motivated Conti ransomware attack against his administration that has hamstrung the government and economy of the Latin American nation. The attack—attributed to the...

Costa Rica continues defence against sustained Conti ransomware attacks

Its not been plain sailing recently for Conti ransomware, the Ransomware as a Service RaaS group with several major attacks under its belt. In August last year, a pen tester leaked valuable manuals and documents related to the operation. These leaks continued as the Conti gang expressed support f...

The vulnerability of the InnoDB component of the MySQL Database Server allows a attacker to cause a service failure or trigger an emergency shutdown.

The vulnerability of the InnoDB component of the MySQL Database Server exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause service failures or trigger a crash through network packets...

Vulnerability of the Server component: The Replication function of the MySQL Server database management system, which allows attackers to trigger an emergency shutdown.

The vulnerability of the MySQL Server database management system’s replication component exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to trigger an emergency shutdown through network packets...

Vulnerability of the MySQL Server component: The MySQL Server component of the database management system allows a hacker to cause service interruptions or unexpected shutdowns.

The vulnerability of the InnoDB component of the MySQL Database Server exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failures or trigger an emergency shutdown through network packets...

Vulnerability of the Server component: The Optimizer component of the MySQL Server database management system, which allows attackers to cause a crash or, in rare cases, an emergency shutdown.

The vulnerability of the MySQL Server component of the database management system exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause the system to become unresponsive or, in rare cases, to crash through network packets...

Usage of deprecated transfer to send ETH

Lines of code Vulnerability details Vulnerability details The usage of address.send is considered a bad practice as it only uses 2300 gas and you create a high dependency of gas. It is true that this is only used in an emergency to transfer the funds to the vault, but it always a better practice ...

CVE-2022-20084

In telephony, there is a possible way to disable receiving emergency broadcasts due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06498874; Issue ID:...

CVE-2022-20084

In telephony, there is a possible way to disable receiving emergency broadcasts due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06498874; Issue ID:...

Privilege escalation

In telephony, there is a possible way to disable receiving emergency broadcasts due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06498874; Issue ID:...

CVE-2022-20084

In telephony, there is a possible way to disable receiving emergency broadcasts due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06498874; Issue ID:...

CVE-2022-20084

The CVE-2022-20084 entry affects MediaTek telephony, where a missing permission check could allow local privilege escalation to disable emergency broadcast reception. The issue is documented with a patch reference (ALPS06498874/ALPS06498874) and is associated with MediaTek’s devices, containing n...

ASB-A-223071148

In telephony, there is a possible way to disable receiving emergency broadcasts due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation...

Function recoverERC20 in StakingRewards allows an owner to transfer out any token except stakingToken

Judge @GalloDaSballo has assessed the 1st item in QA Report 254 as Medium risk. The relevant finding follows: … Function recoverERC20 in StakingRewards allows an owner to transfer out any token except stakingToken. I see 2 problems with this: 1. It should also forbid transferring of rewardsToken,...

Google Chrome issues an emergency update to address the third zero-day of year 2022

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome versions prior to 100.0.4896.127. A type of confusion vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1364, is said to be exploited in the wild. This vulnerability affects the V8...

Google Releases Urgent Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaw

Google on Thursday shipped emergency patches to address two security issues in its Chrome web browser, one of which it says is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-1364, the tech giant described the high-severity bug as a case of type confusion in the V8 JavaScript engine...

Ukraine Thwart Russian Industroyer 2 Malware Attack on Energy Provider

By Deeba Ahmed The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA claims to thwart a malware attack by the Russian military… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukraine Thwart Russian Industroyer 2 Malware Attack on Energy Provider...

The vulnerability of the centralized system for managing emergency messages and events in CAMS for HIS distributed control systems CENTUM VP and CENTUM VP Entry Class, along with the OPC-server Exaopc, allows a perpetrator to execute arbitrary commands.

The vulnerability of the centralized system for managing emergency messages and events in CAMS for HIS distributed control systems CENTUM VP and CENTUM VP Entry Class, along with the OPC-server Exaopc, is related to authentication process flaws. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow attackers...