SolarWinds advanced cyberattack: What happened and what to do now

We learned more about the sophisticated attack first disclosed on December 8 when security firm FireEye reported it had been the victim of a state-sponsored adversary that stole Red Team assessment tools. On December 13 there was a new development when IT company SolarWinds announced it had been...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability in Rails Action View affects the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Infrastructure Management

Summary A security vulnerability in Rails Action View affects the IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Infrastructure Management . Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-15169 DESCRIPTION: Rails Action View is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability in Node.js acorn and bootstrap-select affects IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Infrastructure Management and Managed Service.

Summary A security vulnerability in Node.js acorn and bootstrap-select affects IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Infrastructure Management and Managed Service. Vulnerability Details Third Party Entry: 177309 DESCRIPTION: Node.js acorn module denial of service CVSS Base score: 5.3 CVSS...

U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise

Communications at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments were reportedly compromised by a supply chain attack on SolarWinds, a security vendor that helps the federal government and a range of Fortune 500 companies monitor the health of their IT networks. Given the breadth of the companys...

Adrozek Malware Delivers Fake Ads to 30K Devices a Day

A persistent malware campaign called Adrozek has been using an evolved browser modifier to deliver fraudulent ads to search-engine pages, according to Microsoft. At its peak in August, Adrozek was observed on more than 30,000 devices each day, researchers found, affecting multiple browsers. The...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Rui Jiang Cloud Hyperconverged Computing Platform

Guangdong Ruijiang Cloud Computing Co., Ltd. is a leading Internet infrastructure service provider in China, which is committed to providing professional Internet Data Center IDC, Cloud Computing private cloud solution and public cloud cloud platform and overall solutions for industry application...

Widespread malware campaign seeks to silently inject ads into search results, affects multiple browsers

A persistent malware campaign has been actively distributing an evolved browser modifier malware at scale since at least May 2020. At its peak in August, the threat was observed on over 30,000 devices every day. The malware is designed to inject ads into search engine results pages. The threat...

Smart DNS: Delivering the Best Subscriber Experience

The presence of public "over-the-top" DNS resolution alternatives is a strong motivator for internet service providers ISPs to invest in making their DNS resolution infrastructure the best that it can be. Resolvers are the glue that binds subscribers to their fixed and mobile broadband services...

PT-2020-5726

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science Notebook Sessions affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to insufficient input validation in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science platform, allowing a low-privileged...

Security Bulletin: Older version of common Open Source: batik-dom-1.9.1.jar found in the MaximoForgeViewerPlugIn which is shipped with IBM Maximo for Civil Infrastructure

Summary There is an older version of common Open Source: batik-dom-1.9.1.jar found in the Maximo data loader which is shipped with IBM Maximo for Civil Infrastructure. In Apache Batik 1.x before 1.10, when deserializing subclass of AbstractDocument, the class takes a string from the inputStream a...

Buffer Error Vulnerability in Multiple Qualcomm Products

A Qualcomm chip is a chip from Qualcomm Incorporated USA. a way of miniaturizing circuits mainly semiconductor devices, but also passive components, etc., and is manufactured from time to time on the surface of semiconductor wafers. A buffer error vulnerability exists in multiple Qualcomm product...

Security Vulnerabilities in Multiple Qualcomm Products

A Qualcomm chip is a chip from Qualcomm Incorporated USA. A way of miniaturizing circuits mainly semiconductor devices, but also passive components, etc., and from time to time manufactured on the surface of semiconductor wafers. A security vulnerability exists in several Qualcomm products that...

VMware Enables Zero Trust Through Intrinsic Security

For decades, the central philosophy behind security has been to treat the network like a castle: Build the walls higher, make the moat deeper and wider. But the onset of the primarily telework environment within the federal government has moved much of the activity outside the network perimeter, ...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Insecure ███████ credentials on staging app at ████ leads to application takeover

Summary: A ██████████ application called "████" has an old endpoint that accepts insecure/test ████████ credentials despite being a publicly-accessible IP. This endpoint also provides the ability to view information that may be FOUO, to exfiltrate information on registered personnel or contractor...

Cisco Releases Security Advisory for Vulnerability in AnyConnect Software

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Software and Security Manager. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and...

CA Unified Infrastructure Management Privilege Escalation (CA20201116-01)

According to its self-reported version number from the CA Unified Infrastructure Management UIM application running on the remote host is prior or equal to 9.0.2, 9.1.0, 9.2.0 or 20.x prior or equal to 20.1. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability in the robot component...

Using Akamai Edge DNS with PCI DSS Environments

Overview The PCI DSS scoping guidance indicates that common shared services that provide services to the CDE, such as DNS, can be in scope and must be assessed for PCI DSS compliance. This post discusses the application of this scoping guidance to the external authoritative DNS servers and provid...

Cyberattacks Target COVID-19 Vaccine 'Cold-Chain' Orgs

A sophisticated, global phishing campaign has been targeting the credentials of organizations associated with the COVID-19 “cold-chain” – companies that ensure the safe preservation of vaccines by making sure they are stored and transported in temperature-controlled environments. The phishing...

Kernel update: Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch 120.0 for Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7.0 and Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 3.5, 4.0

The cumulative Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch was updated with a stability fix. The patch applies to the kernels 3.10.0-1062.4.2.vz7.116.7 Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7.0.12 HF1 and Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 3.5, 3.10.0-1062.12.1.vz7.131.10 Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7.0.13, 3.10.0-1127.8.2.vz7.151.1...

National Instruments CompactRIO

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: National Instruments Corp. NI Equipment: CompactRIO Vulnerability: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow...