Microsoft Expands Cloud Logging to Counter Rising Nation-State Cyber Threats

Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it's expanding cloud logging capabilities to help organizations investigate cybersecurity incidents and gain more visibility after facing criticism in the wake of a recent espionage attack campaign aimed at its email infrastructure. The tech giant said it's...

Adobe Rolls Out New Patches for Actively Exploited ColdFusion Vulnerability

Adobe has released a fresh round of updates to address an incomplete fix for a recently disclosed ColdFusion flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The critical shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2023-38205 CVSS score: 7.5, has been described as an instance of improper access control...

FIN8 Group Using Modified Sardonic Backdoor for BlackCat Ransomware Attacks

The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN8 has been observed using a "revamped" version of a backdoor called Sardonic to deliver the BlackCat ransomware. According to the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, the development is an attempt on the part of the e-crime group to...

Owner of BreachForums Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime and Child Pornography Charges

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the cybercrime forum as well as having child pornography images. The development, first reported by DataBreaches.net last week, comes nearly four months after...

Cybercriminals Exploit Microsoft Word Vulnerabilities to Deploy LokiBot Malware

Microsoft Word documents exploiting known remote code execution flaws are being used as phishing lures to drop malware called LokiBot on compromised systems. "LokiBot, also known as Loki PWS, has been a well-known information-stealing Trojan active since 2015," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher...

Critical Security Flaws Uncovered in Honeywell Experion DCS and QuickBlox Services

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in various services, including Honeywell Experion distributed control system DCS and QuickBlox, that, if successfully exploited, could result in severe compromise of affected systems. Dubbed Crit.IX, the nine flaws in the Honeywell Experion D...

Defend Against Insider Threats: Join this Webinar on SaaS Security Posture Management

As security practices continue to evolve, one primary concern persists in the minds of security professionals—the risk of employees unintentionally or deliberately exposing vital information. Insider threats, whether originating from deliberate actions or accidental incidents, pose a significant...

Microsoft Thwarts Chinese Cyber Attack Targeting Western European Governments

Microsoft on Tuesday revealed that it repelled a cyber attack staged by a Chinese nation-state actor targeting two dozen organizations, some of which include government agencies, in a cyber espionage campaign designed to acquire confidential data. The attacks, which commenced on May 15, 2023,...

CVE-2023-28986

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in wp.Insider, wpaffiliatemgr Affiliates Manager plugin = 2.9.20 versions...

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We know customers of every size face ever-increasing security risks. In just the last 12 months the speed of attackers leveraging breaches is also increasing, as it only takes 72 minutes on average for an attacker to access private data from the time a user falls victim to a phishing email.1 Data...

CVE-2023-36002

A missing authorization check in multiple URL validation endpoints of the Insider Threat Management Server enables an anonymous attacker on an adjacent network to smuggle content via DNS lookups. All versions before 7.14.3 are affected...

CVE-2023-35998

A missing authorization check in multiple SOAP endpoints of the Insider Threat Management Server enables an attacker on an adjacent network to read and write unauthorized objects. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to first obtain a valid agent authentication token. All versions before...

CVE-2023-2818

An insecure filesystem permission in the Insider Threat Management Agent for Windows enables local unprivileged users to disrupt agent monitoring. All versions prior to 7.14.3 are affected. Agents for MacOS and Linux and Cloud are unaffected...

CVE-2023-35998

A missing authorization check in multiple SOAP endpoints of the Insider Threat Management Server enables an attacker on an adjacent network to read and write unauthorized objects. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to first obtain a valid agent authentication token. All versions before...

CVE-2023-2818

An insecure filesystem permission in the Insider Threat Management Agent for Windows enables local unprivileged users to disrupt agent monitoring. All versions prior to 7.14.3 are affected. Agents for MacOS and Linux and Cloud are unaffected...

Authorization

A missing authorization check in multiple URL validation endpoints of the Insider Threat Management Server enables an anonymous attacker on an adjacent network to smuggle content via DNS lookups. All versions before 7.14.3 are affected...

Authorization

A missing authorization check in multiple SOAP endpoints of the Insider Threat Management Server enables an attacker on an adjacent network to read and write unauthorized objects. Successful exploitation requires an attacker to first obtain a valid agent authentication token. All versions before...

Code injection

An insecure filesystem permission in the Insider Threat Management Agent for Windows enables local unprivileged users to disrupt agent monitoring. All versions prior to 7.14.3 are affected. Agents for MacOS and Linux and Cloud are unaffected...

CVE-2023-36002

CVE-2023-36002 affects Proofpoint Insider Threat Management Server prior to 7.14.3. A missing authorization check in multiple URL validation endpoints allows an anonymous attacker on an adjacent network to smuggle content via DNS lookups. Impact is limited to affected versions; mitigation is to u...

CVE-2023-36002 ITM Server Missing Authorization for URL validation

A missing authorization check in multiple URL validation endpoints of the Insider Threat Management Server enables an anonymous attacker on an adjacent network to smuggle content via DNS lookups. All versions before 7.14.3 are affected...