Microsoft's January 2024 Windows Update Patches 48 New Vulnerabilities

Microsoft has addressed a total of 48 security flaws spanning its software as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for January 2024. Of the 48 bugs, two are rated Critical and 46 are rated Important in severity. There is no evidence that any of the issues are publicly known or under active attack at...

8220 Gang Exploiting Oracle WebLogic Server Vulnerability to Spread Malware

The threat actors associated with the 8220 Gang have been observed exploiting a high-severity flaw in Oracle WebLogic Server to propagate their malware. The security shortcoming is CVE-2020-14883 CVSS score: 7.2, a remote code execution bug that could be exploited by authenticated attackers to ta...

Lazarus Group Using Log4j Exploits to Deploy Remote Access Trojans

The notorious North Korea-linked threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a new global campaign that involves the opportunistic exploitation of security flaws in Log4j to deploy previously undocumented remote access trojans RATs on compromised hosts. Cisco Talos is tracking...

New 5G Modem Flaws Affect iOS Devices and Android Models from Major Brands

A collection of security flaws in the firmware implementation of 5G mobile network modems from major chipset vendors such as MediaTek and Qualcomm impact USB and IoT modems as well as hundreds of smartphone models running Android and iOS. Of the 14 flaws – collectively called 5Ghoul a combination...

Adobe Coldfusion vulnerability used in attacks on government servers

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA put out a Cybersecurity Advisory CSA to alert government agencies about cybercriminals using a vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion to gain initial access to servers. Adobe ColdFusion is a platform for building and deploying web and mobile...

Sierra:21 - Flaws in Sierra Wireless Routers Expose Critical Sectors to Cyber Attacks

A collection of 21 security flaws have been discovered in Sierra Wireless AirLink cellular routers and open-source software components like TinyXML and OpenNDS. Collectively tracked as Sierra:21, the issues expose over 86,000 devices across critical sectors like energy, healthcare, waste...

Qualcomm Releases Details on Chip Vulnerabilities Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Chipmaker Qualcomm has released more information about three high-severity security flaws that it said came under "limited, targeted exploitation" back in October 2023. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2023-33063 CVSS score: 7.8 - Memory corruption in DSP Services during a remote call fro...

RHEL 8 : postgresql:12 (RHSA-2023:7667)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7667 advisory. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system DBMS. Security Fixes: postgresql: schemaelement defeats protective...

Warning for iPhone Users: Experts Warn of Sneaky Fake Lockdown Mode Attack

A new "post-exploitation tampering technique" can be abused by malicious actors to visually deceive a target into believing that their Apple iPhone is running in Lockdown Mode when it's actually not and carry out covert attacks. The novel method, detailed by Jamf Threat Labs in a report shared wi...

ownCloud vulnerability can be used to extract admin passwords

ownCloud has warned users about three critical security flaws in its file-sharing software which, if exploited, could reveal sensitive information and modify files. An especially and potentially impactful one is a vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive credentials and...

CISA Adds Three Security Flaws with Active Exploitation to KEV Catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2023-36584 CVSS score: 5.4 - Microsoft Windows...

RLSA-2023:6818 Important: Satellite 6.14 security and bug fix update

Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based infrastructure. It allows for provisioning, remote management, and monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single centralized tool. Security Fixes: golang: net/http, x/net/http2: rapid stream reset...

Apple, Google, and Microsoft Just Patched Some Spooky Security Flaws

Plus: Major vulnerability fixes are now available for a number of enterprise giants, including Cisco, VMWare, Citrix, and SAP...

Urgent: New Security Flaws Discovered in NGINX Ingress Controller for Kubernetes

Three unpatched high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in the NGINX Ingress controller for Kubernetes that could be weaponized by a threat actor to steal secret credentials from the cluster. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2022-4886 CVSS score: 8.8 - Ingress-nginx path...

N. Korean Lazarus Group Targets Software Vendor Using Known Flaws

The North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group has been attributed as behind a new campaign in which an unnamed software vendor was compromised through the exploitation of known security flaws in another high-profile software. The attack sequences, according to Kaspersky, culminated in the deployment of...

Critical OAuth Flaws Uncovered in Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak Platforms

Critical security flaws have been disclosed in the Open Authorization OAuth implementation of popular online services such as Grammarly, Vidio, and Bukalapak, building upon previous shortcomings uncovered in Booking.com and Expo. The weaknesses, now addressed by the respective companies following...

iOS Zero-Day Attacks: Experts Uncover Deeper Insights into Operation Triangulation

The TriangleDB implant used to target Apple iOS devices packs in at least four different modules to record microphone, extract iCloud Keychain, steal data from SQLite databases used by various apps, and estimate the victim's location. The new findings come from Kaspersky, which detailed the great...

GHSA-75J7-W798-CWWX Arduino Create Agent path traversal - local privilege escalation vulnerability

Impact The vulnerability affects the endpoint /upload which handles request with the filename parameter. A user who has the ability to perform HTTP requests to the localhost interface, or is able to bypass the CORS configuration, can escalate his privileges to those of the user running the Arduin...

Arduino Create Agent path traversal - local privilege escalation vulnerability

Impact The vulnerability affects the endpoint /upload which handles request with the filename parameter. A user who has the ability to perform HTTP requests to the localhost interface, or is able to bypass the CORS configuration, can escalate his privileges to those of the user running the Arduin...

GHSA-4X5Q-Q7WC-Q22P Arduino Create Agent Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity vulnerability

Impact The vulnerability affects the endpoint /v2/pkgs/tools/installed. A user who has the ability to perform HTTP requests to the localhost interface, or is able to bypass the CORS configuration, can escalate his privileges to those of the user running the Arduino Create Agent service via a...