CVE-2023-28440 Denial of service via admin theme import route in Discourse

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. In affected versions a maliciously crafted request from a Discourse administrator can lead to a long-running request and eventual timeout. This has the greatest potential impact in shared hosting environments where admins are untruste...

5 Types of Cyber Crime Groups

Discover the five main types of cyber crime groups: access as a service, ransomware as a service, bulletproof hosting, crowd sourcing, and phishing as a service as well as tips to strengthen your defense strategy...

5 Types of Cyber Crime Groups

Discover the five main types of cyber crime groups: access as a service, ransomware as a service, bulletproof hosting, crowd sourcing, and phishing as a service as well as tips to strengthen your defense strategy...

PT-2023-21723 · Discourse · Discourse

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Discourse versions prior to 3.0.3 Discourse versions prior to 3.1.0.beta4 Description: Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A maliciously crafted request from a Discourse administrator can lead to a long-running...

Pakistan-based Transparent Tribe Hackers Targeting Indian Educational Institutions

The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a set of weaponized Microsoft Office documents in intrusions directed against the Indian education sector to deploy a continuously maintained piece of malware called Crimson RAT. While the suspected Pakistan-based threat group is known to targ...

A Modular AlienFox Toolkit Used in Cloud-Based Email and Web Hosting Service Attacks

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary AlienFox is a toolkit used by attackers to target email and web hosting services, particularly cloud-based and software-as-a-service SaaS email hosting services. To receive real-time threat advisories,...

GHSA-33PV-VCGH-JFG9 Wagtail vulnerable to denial-of-service via memory exhaustion when uploading large files

Impact A memory exhaustion bug exists in Wagtail's handling of uploaded images and documents. For both images and documents, files are loaded into memory during upload for additional processing. A user with access to upload images or documents through the Wagtail admin interface could upload a fi...

[slackware-security] irssi

New irssi packages are available for Slackware 14.2, 15.0, and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/irssi-1.4.4-i586-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. Do not crash Irssi when one line is printed as the result of another line being...

Mass Ransomware Attack

A vulnerability in a popular data transfer tool has resulted in a mass ransomware attack: TechCrunch has learned of dozens of organizations that used the affected GoAnywhere file transfer software at the time of the ransomware attack, suggesting more victims are likely to come forward. However,...

CVE-2023-20065

A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting subsystem of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on the hosted application. An attacker could exploit thi...

PT-2023-2224 · Cisco · Cisco Ios Xe

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco IOS XE Software affected versions not specified Description: A vulnerability in the Cisco IOx application hosting subsystem could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This issue is...

New ShellBot DDoS Malware Variants Targeting Poorly Managed Linux Servers

Poorly managed Linux SSH servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign that deploys different variants of a malware called ShellBot. "ShellBot, also known as PerlBot, is a DDoS Bot malware developed in Perl and characteristically uses IRC protocol to communicate with the C&C server," AhnLa...

A look at a Magecart skimmer using the Hunter obfuscator

Threat actors are notorious for trying to hide their code in various ways, from binary packers to obfuscators. On their own, these tools are not always malicious as they can also be be used by companies or individuals who wish to keep their work safe from piracy, but overall they tend to be large...

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks

In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the FBI on a distributed...

[slackware-security] mozilla-firefox

New mozilla-firefox packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-firefox-102.9.0esr-i686-1slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This update contains security fixes and improvements. For more...

PT-2023-2103 · Microsoft · Onedrive For Macos +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: OneDrive for Windows affected versions not specified OneDrive for MacOS affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to insufficient access restrictions in the file hosting service, which can be exploited by an attacker t...

CVE-2023-23711

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in A2 Hosting A2 Optimized WP plugin = 3.0.4 versions...

CVE-2023-23711

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in A2 Hosting A2 Optimized WP plugin = 3.0.4 versions...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in A2 Hosting A2 Optimized WP plugin = 3.0.4 versions...

Large-scale Cyber Attack Hijacks East Asian Websites for Adult Content Redirects

A widespread malicious cyber operation has hijacked thousands of websites aimed at East Asian audiences to redirect visitors to adult-themed content since early September 2022. The ongoing campaign entails injecting malicious JavaScript code to the hacked websites, often connecting to the target...