Chinese Tonto Team Hackers' Second Attempt to Target Cybersecurity Firm Group-IB Fails

The advanced persistent threat APT actor known as Tonto Team carried out an unsuccessful attack on cybersecurity company Group-IB in June 2022. The Singapore-headquartered firm said that it detected and blocked malicious phishing emails originating from the group targeting its employees. It's als...

ION starts bringing customers back online after LockBit ransomware attack

ION Group, a financial software firm, is reportedly beginning to bring clients back online after being hit by a ransomware attack late last week. The Russian-linked LockBit ransomware group claimed responsibility for attacking a division of ION Group, which affecting 42 clients in Europe and the...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2022-4701

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpractivaterequiredplugins' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to activate the...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2022-4708

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wprsavetemplateconditions' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to modify the...

Ransomware in December 2022

Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence builds a monthly picture of ransomware activity by monitoring the information published by ransomware gangs on their dark web leak sites. This information represents victims who were successfully attacked but opted not to pay a ransom. Lockbit has rebounded from i...

Quarterly Report: Incident Response Trends in Q4 2022

Syncro, a remote management and monitoring tool, emerges as an increasingly common tool for adversaries. By Caitlin Huey. Ransomware continued to be a top threat Cisco Talos Incident Response Talos IR responded to this quarter, with appearances from both previously seen and newly observed...

A week in security (January 9—15)

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Russian Ransomware Gang Attack Destabilizes UK Royal Mail

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Cyberattack halts Royal Mail's overseas post

If youre looking to send letters or parcels outside of the UK using Royal Mail, youll want to hold off for a little while. Royal Mail is suffering from "severe disruption" after an unnamed cyber incident. While no specifics are currently available, Royal Mail has disclosed enough to let us know...

CVE-2022-4700

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpractivaterequiredtheme' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to activate the...

CVE-2022-4703

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wprresetpreviousimport' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to reset previously imported da...

CVE-2022-4703

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wprresetpreviousimport' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to reset previously imported da...

CVE-2022-4709

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wprimportlibrarytemplate' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to import and activate...

CVE-2022-4707

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This is due to missing nonce validation in the 'wprcreatemegamenutemplate' AJAX function. This allows unauthenticated attackers to create Mega Menu templates,...

CVE-2022-4710

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59, due to due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping of the 'wprajaxsearchlinktarget' parameter in the 'datafetch' function. This makes it possibl...

CVE-2022-4705

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wprfinalsettingssetup' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to finalize activation of preset...

CVE-2022-4700

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wpractivaterequiredtheme' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to activate the...

CVE-2022-4705

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wprfinalsettingssetup' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to finalize activation of preset...

CVE-2022-4709

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wprimportlibrarytemplate' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to import and activate...

CVE-2022-4703

The Royal Elementor Addons plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to insufficient access control in the 'wprresetpreviousimport' AJAX action in versions up to, and including, 1.3.59. This allows any authenticated user, including those with subscriber-level permissions, to reset previously imported da...