Over a Dozen New BMC Firmware Flaws Expose OT and IoT Devices to Remote Attacks

Over a dozen security flaws have been discovered in baseboard management controller BMC firmware from Lanner that could expose operational technology OT and internet of things IoT networks to remote attacks. BMC refers to a specialized service processor, a system-on-chip SoC, that's found in serv...

Millions of Android Devices Still Don't Have Patches for Mali GPU Flaws

A set of five medium-severity security flaws in Arm's Mali GPU driver has continued to remain unpatched on Android devices for months, despite fixes released by the chipmaker. Google Project Zero, which discovered and reported the bugs, said Arm addressed the shortcomings in July and August 2022...

Hackers Exploiting Abandoned Boa Web Servers to Target Critical Industries

Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed the intrusion activity aimed at Indian power grid entities earlier this year likely involved the exploitation of security flaws in a now-discontinued web server called Boa. The tech behemoth's cybersecurity division said the vulnerable component poses a "supply chai...

Multiple Vulnerabilities Reported in Checkmk IT Infrastructure Monitoring Software

Multiple vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Checkmk IT Infrastructure monitoring software that could be chained together by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to fully take over affected servers. "These vulnerabilities can be chained together by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain co...

Last Years Open Source - Tomorrow's Vulnerabilities

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and Git, has his own law in software development, and it goes like this: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." This phrase puts the finger on the very principle of open source: the more, the merrier - if the code is easily available for anyone and...

MGASA-2022-0380 Updated kernel-linus packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.15.74 and fixes at least the following security issues: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The existing KVM SEV API has a vulnerability that allows a non-root host user-level application to crash the host kernel by creating a confidential guest V...

WordPress 5.0.x < 5.0.18 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version number, the detected WordPress application is affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - A stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS via wp-mail.php post by email. - An open redirect in wpnonceays. - Sender's email address is exposed in wp-mail.php. - A Cross-Site...

CVE-2022-21625 vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities for packages: mysql...

Microsoft Issues Improved Mitigations for Unpatched Exchange Server Vulnerabilities

Microsoft on Friday disclosed it has made more improvements to the mitigation method offered as a means to prevent exploitation attempts against the newly disclosed unpatched security flaws in Exchange Server. To that end, the tech giant has revised the blocking rule in IIS Manager from...

SUSE-SU-2022:3422-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP5 RT kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2021-4203: Fixed use-after-free read flaw that was found in sockgetsockopt in net/core/sock.c due to SOPEERCRED and SOPEERGROUPS race with listen...

Hackers Targeting WebLogic Servers and Docker APIs for Mining Cryptocurrencies

Malicious actors such as Kinsing are taking advantage of both recently disclosed and older security flaws in Oracle WebLogic Server to deliver cryptocurrency-mining malware. Cybersecurity company Trend Micro said it found the financially-motivated group leveraging the vulnerability to drop Python...

Responsible Disclosure for Cryptocurrency Security

Stewart Baker discusses why the industry-norm responsible disclosure for software vulnerabilities fails for cryptocurrency software. Why can’t the cryptocurrency industry solve the problem the way the software and hardware industries do, by patching and updating security as flaws are found? Two...

Stealthy Linux Malware Shikitega Deploying Monero Cryptominer

By Deeba Ahmed The stealthy malware leverages security flaws to gain privilege escalation and establish persistence. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Stealthy Linux Malware Shikitega Deploying Monero Cryptominer...

New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild

Google on Tuesday rolled out patches for Chrome browser for desktops to contain an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-2856, the issue has been described as a case of insufficient validation of untrusted input in Intents. Security researchers Ashley She...

Xiaomi Phones with MediaTek Chips Found Vulnerable to Forged Payments

Security flaws have been identified in Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T and Redmi Note 11 models, which could be exploited to disable the mobile payment mechanism and even forge transactions via a rogue Android app installed on the devices. Check Point said it found the flaws in devices powered by MediaTek...

Emergency Alert System Flaws Could Let Attackers Transmit Fake Messages

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS has warned of critical security vulnerabilities in Emergency Alert System EAS encoder/decoder devices. If left unpatched, the issues could allow an adversary to issue fraudulent emergency alerts over TV, radio, and cable networks. The August 1 advisory...

The Bug Report – July 2022 Edition

The Bug Report – July 2022 Edition By Trellix · August 3, 2022 This story was also written by Kasimir Schulz and Jesse Chick Your Cybersecurity Comic Relief Why am I here? Welcome to the Bug Report, Heat Wave Edition! In the face of chronic irritability and soggy-pants syndrome, we are back at it...

Apache Axis <= 1.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Apache Axis is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:apache:axis"; if description...

Magecart Hacks Food Ordering Systems to Steal Payment Data from Over 300 Restaurants

Three restaurant ordering platforms MenuDrive, Harbortouch, and InTouchPOS were the target of two Magecart skimming campaigns that resulted in the compromise of at least 311 restaurants. The trio of breaches has led to the theft of more than 50,000 payment card records from these infected...

Mind the Gap – How to Ensure Your Vulnerability Detection Methods are up to Scratch — The Hacker News

With global cybercrime costs expected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, it comes as little surprise that the risk of attack is companies' biggest concern globally. To help businesses uncover and fix the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations affecting their systems, there is an overabundan...