THN Cybersecurity Recap: Last Week's Top Threats and Trends (September 16-22)

Hold on tight, folks, because last week's cybersecurity landscape was a rollercoaster! We witnessed everything from North Korean hackers dangling "dream jobs" to expose a new malware, to a surprising twist in the Apple vs. NSO Group saga. Even the seemingly mundane world of domain names and cloud...

Apple Drops Spyware Case Against NSO Group, Citing Risk of Threat Intelligence Exposure

Apple has filed a motion to "voluntarily" dismiss its lawsuit against commercial spyware vendor NSO Group, citing a shifting risk landscape that could lead to exposure of critical "threat intelligence" information. The development was first reported by The Washington Post on Friday. The iPhone...

Russian APT29 Using NSO Group-Style Exploits in Attacks, Google

Google’s Threat Analysis Group TAG has exposed a new campaign by Russian state-backed APT29, also known as Cozy…...

Russian Hackers Exploit Safari and Chrome Flaws in High-Profile Cyberattack

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged multiple in-the-wild exploit campaigns that leveraged now-patched flaws in Apple Safari and Google Chrome browsers to infect mobile users with information-stealing malware. "These campaigns delivered n-day exploits for which patches were available, but would...

Powerful Spyware Exploits Enable a New String of ‘Watering Hole’ Attacks

Suspected Russian hackers have compromised a series of websites to utilize sophisticated spyware exploits that are eerily similar to those created by NSO Group and Intellexa...

Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Multiple Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-esa-sma-wsa-xss-bgG5WHOD)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. - A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct an XSS attack again...

CVE-2024-20369

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Crosswork Network Services Orchestrator NSO could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to redirect a user to a malicious web page. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation of a parameter in an HTTP request. An...

CVE-2024-20383 Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct an XSS attack against a user of the interface. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user input. An...

CVE-2024-20383 Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to conduct an XSS attack against a user of the interface. This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user input. An...

CVE-2024-20383

Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager (Cisco AsyncOS) web-based management interface is affected by a stored XSS vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An authenticated, remote attacker can lure a user to click a crafted link, potentially executing arbitrary script code in the interface...

CVE-2024-20366

A vulnerability in the Tail-f High Availability Cluster Communications HCC function pack of Cisco Crosswork Network Services Orchestrator NSO could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because a user-controlled searc...

CVE-2024-20369

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Crosswork Network Services Orchestrator NSO could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to redirect a user to a malicious web page. This vulnerability is due to improper input validation of a parameter in an HTTP request. An...

CVE-2024-20369

CVE-2024-20369 affects Cisco Crosswork Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) Web UI. The issue is improper input validation of a parameter in an HTTP request, enabling an unauthenticated, remote attacker to persuade a user to click a crafted link and be redirected to a malicious website. Documented...

Cisco Crosswork Network Services Orchestrator Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Tail-f High Availability Cluster Communications HCC function pack of Cisco Crosswork Network Services Orchestrator NSO could allow an authenticated, local attacker to elevate privileges to root on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because a user-controlled searc...

Apple warns people of mercenary attacks via threat notification system

Apple has reportedly sent alerts to individuals in 92 nations on Wednesday, April 10, to say its detected that they may have been a victim of a mercenary attack. The company says it has sent out these types of threat notifications to over 150 countries since the start in 2021. Mercenary spyware i...

Pegasus spyware creator ordered to reveal code used to spy on WhatsApp users

A California federal judge has ordered spyware maker NSO Group to hand over the code for Pegasus and other spyware products that were used to spy on WhatsApp users. Meta-owned WhatsApp has been fighting NSO in court since 2019, after Pegasus was allegedly used against 1,400 WhatsApp users over th...

The Privacy Danger Lurking in Push Notifications

Plus: Apple warns about sideloading apps, a court orders NSO group to turn over the code of its Pegasus spyware, and an investigation finds widely available security cams are wildly insecure...

U.S. Court Orders NSO Group to Hand Over Pegasus Spyware Code to WhatsApp

A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other remote access trojans to Meta as part of the social media giant's ongoing litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor. The decision marks a major legal victory for Meta, which filed the lawsuit in October 2019...

Israeli NSO Group Suspected of “MMS Fingerprint” Attack on WhatsApp

By Waqas The latest report from Swedish telecom security firm Enea sheds light on security vulnerabilities within the widely used messaging platform, WhatsApp. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Israeli NSO Group Suspected of "MMS Fingerprint" Attack on WhatsApp...

Pegasus Spyware Targeted iPhones of Journalists and Activists in Jordan

The iPhones belonging to nearly three dozen journalists, activists, human rights lawyers, and civil society members in Jordan have been targeted with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to joint findings from Access Now and the Citizen Lab. Nine of the 35 individuals have been publicly confirm...