2024 Threat Landscape Statistics: Ransomware Activity, Vulnerability Exploits, and Attack Trends

Now that we’ve reached the end of another year, you may be looking around the cybersecurity infosphere and seeing a glut of posts offering “hot takes” on the 2024 threat landscape and predictions about what’s coming next. At Rapid7, we don’t truck in hot takes, but rather, cold hard facts. Stayin...

Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2023-52524: Fixed possible corruption in nfc/llcp bsc1220927. CVE-2024-49925: fbdev: efifb: Register sysfs groups through driver core bsc1232224 CVE-2024-50089:...

kcp's impersonation allows access to global administrative groups

Impact Impersonation is a feature of the Kubernetes API, allowing to override user information. As downstream project, kcp inherits this feature. As per the linked documentation a specific level of privilege usually assigned to cluster admins is required for impersonation. The vulnerability in kc...

Researchers Uncover Espionage Tactics of China-Based APT Groups in Southeast Asia

A suspected China-based threat actor has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting high-profile organizations in Southeast Asia since at least October 2023. The espionage campaign targeted organizations in various sectors spanning government ministries in two different countries, an air...

OESA-2024-2508 proftpd security update

ProFTPD is an enhanced FTP server with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based...

Hackers Leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels, DNS Fast-Flux to Hide GammaDrop Malware

The threat actor known as Gamaredon has been observed leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels as a tactic to conceal its staging infrastructure hosting a malware called GammaDrop. The activity is part of an ongoing spear-phishing campaign targeting Ukrainian entities since at least early 2024 that's design...

Unauthorized Access

Mattermost is vulnerable to unauthorized access. The vulnerability is due to improper authorization, which allows users or system managers with "Read Groups" permission to retrieve details about private channels they are not members of by sending requests to /api/v4/channels...

SUSE CVE-2024-48651

In ProFTPD through 1.3.8b before cec01cc, supplemental group inheritance grants unintended access to GID 0 because of the lack of supplemental groups from modsql...

[SECURITY] [DLA 3975-1] proftpd-dfsg security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3975-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Bastien Roucariès November 29, 2024 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-48651

In ProFTPD through 1.3.8b before cec01cc, supplemental group inheritance grants unintended access to GID 0 because of the lack of supplemental groups from modsql...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-48651

In ProFTPD through 1.3.8b before cec01cc, supplemental group inheritance grants unintended access to GID 0 because of the lack of supplemental groups from modsql...

CVE-2024-36467

An authenticated user with API access e.g.: user with default User role, more specifically a user with access to the user.update API endpoint is enough to be able to add themselves to any group e.g.: Zabbix Administrators, except to groups that are disabled or having restricted GUI access...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-36467

An authenticated user with API access e.g.: user with default User role, more specifically a user with access to the user.update API endpoint is enough to be able to add themselves to any group e.g.: Zabbix Administrators, except to groups that are disabled or having restricted GUI access...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-36467

An authenticated user with API access e.g.: user with default User role, more specifically a user with access to the user.update API endpoint is enough to be able to add themselves to any group e.g.: Zabbix Administrators, except to groups that are disabled or having restricted GUI access...

CVE-2024-36467 Authentication privilege escalation via user groups due to missing authorization checks

An authenticated user with API access e.g.: user with default User role, more specifically a user with access to the user.update API endpoint is enough to be able to add themselves to any group e.g.: Zabbix Administrators, except to groups that are disabled or having restricted GUI access...

CVE-2024-36467 Authentication privilege escalation via user groups due to missing authorization checks

An authenticated user with API access e.g.: user with default User role, more specifically a user with access to the user.update API endpoint is enough to be able to add themselves to any group e.g.: Zabbix Administrators, except to groups that are disabled or having restricted GUI access...

Advanced threat predictions for 2025

We at Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team monitor over 900 APT advanced persistent threat groups and operations. At the end of each year, we take a step back to assess the most complex and sophisticated attacks that have shaped the threat landscape. These insights enable us to anticipat...

Russian Hackers Deploy HATVIBE and CHERRYSPY Malware Across Europe and Asia

Threat actors with ties to Russia have been linked to a cyber espionage campaign aimed at organizations in Central Asia, East Asia, and Europe. Recorded Future's Insikt Group, which has assigned the activity cluster the name TAG-110, said it overlaps with a threat group tracked by the Computer...

Vulnerability of components of the Linux operating system’s kernel, net/mlx5e, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure

The vulnerability of the net/mlx5e components in the Linux operating system is related to errors in the double release function of arfscreategroups. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

The vulnerability of the Asset Manager’s automation and accounting software lies in the ability to assign users to inappropriate groups, which allows them to increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Asset Manager’s automation and accounting software lies in the ability to route users into inappropriate groups. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges...