Top CVEs Actively Exploited By People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors

Summary This joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA provides the top Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs used since 2020 by People’s Republic of China PRC state-sponsored cyber actors as assessed by the National Security Agency NSA, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and Feder...

BOD 23-01: Improving asset visibility and vulnerability detection on federal networks

On October 3, 2022, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued Binding Operational Directive 23-01 BOD 23-10. This directive requires all Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB entities to maintain an inventory of all IPv4- and IPv6-networked assets, perform regular, periodi...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Cisco products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page. CISA...

Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software Improper Signature Verification Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the upgrade signature verification of Cisco Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software NFVIS could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to provide an unauthentic upgrade file for upload. This vulnerability is due to insufficient cryptographic signature verification of upgrade...

FBI and CISA Publish a PSA on Malicious Cyber Activity Against Election Infrastructure

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and CISA have published a joint public service announcement that: Assesses malicious cyber activity aiming to compromise election infrastructure is unlikely to result in large-scale disruptions or prevent voting. Confirms “the FBI and CISA have no reporting...

CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Regularly Track Network Assets and Vulnerabilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has issued a new Binding Operational Directive BOD that directs federal agencies in the country to keep track of assets and vulnerabilities on their networks six months from now. To that end, Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB...

Researcher Spotlight: Globetrotting with Yuri Kramarz

From the World Cup in Qatar to robotics manufacturing in east Asia, this incident responder combines experience from multiple arenas By Jon Munshaw. Yuri “Jerzy” Kramarz helped secure everything from the businesses supporting the upcoming World Cup in Qatar to the Black Hat security conference an...

Researcher Spotlight: Globetrotting with Yuri Kramarz

From the World Cup in Qatar to robotics manufacturing in east Asia, this incident responder combines experience from multiple arenas Yuri "Jerzy" Kramarz helped secure everything from the businesses supporting the upcoming World Cup in Qatar to the Black Hat security conference and critical...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : cosign (SUSE-SU-2022:3486-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3486-1 advisory. Updated to version 1.12.0 jscSLE-23879: - CVE-2022-36056: Fixed verify-blob could successfully verify an...

Local government cybersecurity: 5 best practices

It seems like not a day goes by where we dont hear about a local government cyberattack. Indeed, from 911 call centers to public schools, cyberattacks on local governments are as common as they are devastating. Just how often do threat actors attack local governments? A survey of 14 mainly larger...

Researchers Uncover Covert Attack Campaign Targeting Military Contractors

A new covert attack campaign singled out multiple military and weapons contractor companies with spear-phishing emails to trigger a multi-stage infection process designed to deploy an unknown payload on compromised machines. The highly-targeted intrusions, dubbed STEEPMAVERICK by Securonix, also...

Dismantling a Prolific Cybercriminal Empire: REvil Arrests and Reemergence

Dismantling a Prolific Cybercriminal Empire: REvil Arrests and Reemergence By John Fokker · September 29, 2022 We’ve recently seen reports that the REvil ransomware gang is back online after the January 2022 arrests of several its members by Russian authorities claiming to dismantle the group and...

Researchers Warn of New Go-based Malware Targeting Windows and Linux Systems

A new, multi-functional Go-based malware dubbed Chaos has been rapidly growing in volume in recent months to ensnare a wide range of Windows, Linux, small office/home office SOHO routers, and enterprise servers into its botnet. "Chaos functionality includes the ability to enumerate the host...

Cloudflare Takes a Stab at a Captcha That Doesn’t Suck

The internet infrastructure company has an alternative tool to check whether you’re human—and it doesn’t force you to pick out buses in tiny boxes...

Ukraine Says Russia Planning Massive Cyberattacks on its Critical Infrastructures

The Ukrainian government on Monday warned of "massive cyberattacks" by Russia targeting critical infrastructure facilities located in the country and that of its allies. The attacks are said to be targeting the energy sector, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of...

Control System Defense: Know the Opponent

Summary Traditional approaches to securing OT/ICS do not adequately address current threats. Operational technology/industrial control system OT/ICS assets that operate, control, and monitor day-to-day critical infrastructure and industrial processes continue to be an attractive target for...

Researchers Disclose Critical Vulnerability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Researchers have disclosed a new severe Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OCI vulnerability that could be exploited by users to access the virtual disks of other Oracle customers. "Each virtual disk in Oracle's cloud has a unique identifier called OCID," Shir Tamari, head of research at Wiz, said in a...

Security Bulletin: Potential security vulnerabilities with JavaTM SDKs

Summary Smarter Infrastructure Products - Potential security exposure when using JavaTM based applications due to vulnerabilities in Java Software Developer Kits. See Vulnerability Details for CVE IDs. Vulnerability Details CVE IDs: CVE-2014-0878 CVE-2014-0457 CVE-2014-2421 CVE-2014-0429...

CISA and NSA Publish Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Control System Defense

CISA and the National Security Agency NSA have published a joint cybersecurity advisory about control system defense for operational technology OT and industrial control systems ICSs. Control System Defense: Know the Opponent is intended to provide critical infrastructure owners and operators wit...

AttachMe – Oracle Patches “Severe” Vulnerability in its Cloud Infrastructure

By Deeba Ahmed Dubbed AttachMe by researchers; the vulnerability was a severe one since it targeted all OIC customers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: AttachMe - Oracle Patches "Severe" Vulnerability in its Cloud Infrastructure...