Zero-day vulnerability in Zimbra Servers being exploited-in-the-wild

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A zero-day cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability has been discovered in the Zimbra email software. A threat actor is taking advantage of this issue by launching a targeted spear-phishing attack named Operation EmailThief. Two...

Understanding and Mitigating Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats to U.S. Critical Infrastructure

Summary Actions Critical Infrastructure Organizations Should Implement to Immediately Strengthen Their Cyber Posture. • Patch all systems. Prioritize patching known exploited vulnerabilities. • Implement multi-factor authentication. • Use antivirus software. • Develop internal contact lists and...

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware By Taylor Mullins · February 28, 2022 BlackByte Ransomware has been in the news of late due to a successful attack against a National Football League NFL Franchise and a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory by the Federal Bureau ...

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware

Trellix Global Defenders: Analysis and Protections for BlackByte Ransomware By Taylor Mullins · February 28, 2022 BlackByte Ransomware has been in the news of late due to a successful attack against a National Football League NFL Franchise and a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory by the Federal Bureau ...

Millions of WordPress site backups at risk due to a vulnerability in UpdraftPlus plugin

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here UpdraftPlus is a backup tool for WordPress files, databases, plug-ins, and themes that allows you to create, restore, and migrate backups. UpdraftPlus is utilized by more than three million WordPress websites, according to i...

Critical: perl-Image-ExifTool

Issue Overview: lib/Image/ExifTool.pm in ExifTool before 12.38 mishandles a $file = /|$/ check. CVE-2022-23935 Affected Packages: perl-Image-ExifTool Issue Correction: Run yum update perl-Image-ExifTool or yum update --advisory ALAS-2022-1566 to update your system. New Packages: noarch: ...

Medium: openssh

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in OpenSSH. Helper programs for AuthorizedKeysCommand and AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand may run with privileges associated with group memberships of the sshd process, if the configuration specifies running the command as a different user. Depending on system...

Apache Cassandra database affected by easily exploitable Remote code execution

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Apache Cassandra is a database software being used by many companies such as Uber, Facebook, Netflix, Twitter, Instagram, Spotify, Instacart, Reddit, and Accenture. A remote code execution flaw CVE-2021-44521 is reported whi...

MITRE Caldera Command Injection (CVE-2021-42561)

A command injection vulnerability exists in MITRE Caldera Human plugin. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system...

VMware addresses security flaws discovered during Tianfu Cup Pwn Contest

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here VMware addressed vulnerabilities in ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation, few months after the discovery of these bugs by participants at Tianfu Cup Pwn Contest. VMware has rated some of these vulnerabilities as...

Critical Magento zero-day vulnerability actively exploiting multiple e-commerce websites

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Adobe issued an emergency advisory informing Adobe Commerce and Magento Open-Source product users of a critical zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. A zero-day vulnerability which has been...

Dropping Files on a Domain Controller Using CVE-2021-43893

On December 14, 2021, during the Log4Shell chaos, Microsoft published CVE-2021-43893, a remote privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Windows Encrypted File System EFS. The vulnerability was credited to James Forshaw of Google Project Zero, but perhaps owing to the Log4Shell atmosphere,...

Zero-day vulnerability in WebKit affects Apple macOS

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A third zero-day vulnerability has been identified since the latest zero-day bugs discovery in macOS Monterey in the year 2022. This flaw impacts the WebKit component, which is a cross-platform web browser engine that is...

Nokia Transport Module Authentication Bypass

title: Nokia Transport Module Authentication Bypass case id: CM-2020-02 product: BTS TRS web console FTMW20FP22019.08.160010 vulnerability type: Authentication Bypass severity: Critical found: 2020-09-28 CVE: CVE-2021-31932 by: Cristiano Maruti @cmaruti EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The TRS web console allow...

Medium: webkitgtk4

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in webkitgtk. This flaw could allow an attacker to use maliciously crafted web content leading to arbitrary code execution. CVE-2021-30858 Affected Packages: webkitgtk4 Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses a zero-day vulnerability in Windows Kernel

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Microsoft addressed 51 vulnerabilities in the February 2022 patch Tuesday release, one of which was classified as a zero-day vulnerability. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to gain control of a...

WordPress CP Blocks 1.0.14 Plugin - Stored Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit Title: WordPress Plugin CP Blocks 1.0.14 - Stored Cross Site Scripting XSS Exploit Author: Shweta Mahajan Vendor Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cp-blocks/ Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cp-blocks/ Tested on Windows CVE: CVE-2022-0448 Reference:...

Living Off the Land: How to Defend Against Malicious Use of Legitimate Utilities

Living-off-the-land binaries LOLBins are no joke: Cyberattackers have been increasingly making use of them to hide their malicious work from security solutions. It’s time for threat hunters and IT security staff to familiarize themselves with how these are used in the attack chains of some of the...

2021 Cybersecurity Superlatives: An InsightIDR Year in Review

We laughed, we cried, we added over 750 new detections. It's been a rollercoaster of a year for everyone. So let's have some fun with our 2021 year in review — shall we? The last year was an exciting one for InsightIDR, Rapid7's industry-leading extended detection and response XDR and SIEM...

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats By Trellix · January 31, 2022 This story was written by Raj Samani. Ransomware continues to threaten enterprises and assets around the globe, but it was the discovery of a new vulnerability affecting widely used Log4j library that...