Atlassian Bugs Could Have Led to 1-Click Takeover

Atlassian, a platform used by 180,000 customers to engineer software and manage projects, could have been hijacked with a single click due to security flaws, researchers have disclosed. On Thursday, Check Point Research CPR published a report PDF outlining how an attacker could have exploited the...

Prominent defibrillator management tool exposed to remote attacks

By Deeba Ahmed High-Risk security flaws found and patched in ZOLL defibrillator management software. Here's what happened and what was vulnerable. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Prominent defibrillator management tool exposed to remote attacks...

Hackers Can Exploit Samsung Pre-Installed Apps to Spy On Users

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in Samsung's pre-installed Android apps, which, if successfully exploited, could have allowed adversaries access to personal data without users' consent and take control of the devices. "The impact of these bugs could have allowed an attacker t...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2012:0472-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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 ifdescription...

GitHub Updates Policy to Remove Exploit Code When Used in Active Attacks

Code-hosting platform GitHub Friday officially announced a series of updates to the site's policies that delve into how the company deals with malware and exploit code uploaded to its service. "We explicitly permit dual-use security technologies and content related to research into vulnerabilitie...

Researchers Demonstrate 2 New Hacks to Modify Certified PDF Documents

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new attack techniques on certified PDF documents that could potentially enable an attacker to alter a document's visible content by displaying malicious content over the certified content without invalidating its signature. "The attack idea exploits the...

Newly Discovered Bugs in VSCode Extensions Could Lead to Supply Chain Attacks

Severe security flaws uncovered in popular Visual Studio Code extensions could enable attackers to compromise local machines as well as build and deployment systems through a developer's integrated development environment IDE. The vulnerable extensions could be exploited to run arbitrary code on ...

PDF Feature ‘Certified’ Widely Vulnerable to Attack

Certified portable document format PDF files are used to securely sign agreements between two parties while keeping the contents’ integrity protected, but a new report found the security protections on most certified PDF applications were inadequate and left organizations exposed to a number of...

Details Disclosed On Critical Flaws Affecting Nagios IT Monitoring Software

Cybersecurity researchers disclosed details about 13 vulnerabilities in the Nagios network monitoring application that could be abused by an adversary to hijack the infrastructure without any operator intervention. "In a telco setting, where a telco is monitoring thousands of sites, if a customer...

Latest Microsoft Windows Updates Patch Dozens of Security Flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out its scheduled monthly security update with patches for 55 security flaws affecting Windows, Exchange Server, Internet Explorer, Office, Hyper-V, Visual Studio, and Skype for Business. Of these 55 bugs, four are rated as Critical, 50 are rated as Important, and one ...

Top 12 Security Flaws Russian Spy Hackers Are Exploiting in the Wild

Cyber operatives affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR have switched up their tactics in response to previous public disclosures of their attack methods, according to a new advisory jointly published by intelligence agencies from the U.K. and U.S. Friday. "SVR cyber operato...

6 Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Remote Mouse App for Android and iOS

As many as six zero-days have been uncovered in an application called Remote Mouse, allowing a remote attacker to achieve full code execution without any user interaction. The unpatched flaws, collectively named 'Mouse Trap,' were disclosed on Wednesday by security researcher Axel Persinger, who...

New Qualcomm Chip Bug Could Let Hackers Spy On Android Devices

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new security vulnerability in Qualcomm's mobile station modems MSM that could potentially allow an attacker to leverage the underlying Android operating system to slip malicious code into mobile phones, undetected. "If exploited, the vulnerability would...

Severe Bugs Reported in EtherNet/IP Stack for Industrial Systems

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday issued an advisory warning of multiple vulnerabilities in the OpENer EtherNet/IP stack that could expose industrial systems to denial-of-service DoS attacks, data leaks, and remote code execution. All OpENer commits and...

EUVD-2021-11133

The Thrive Optimize WordPress plugin before 1.4.13.3, Thrive Comments WordPress plugin before 1.4.15.3, Thrive Headline Optimizer WordPress plugin before 1.3.7.3, Thrive Leads WordPress plugin before 2.3.9.4, Thrive Ultimatum WordPress plugin before 2.3.9.4, Thrive Quiz Builder WordPress plugin...

Windows, Ubuntu, Zoom, Safari, MS Exchange Hacked at Pwn2Own 2021

The 2021 spring edition of Pwn2Own hacking contest concluded last week on April 8 with a three-way tie between Team Devcore, OV, and Computest researchers Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade. A total of $1.2 million was awarded for 16 high-profile exploits over the course of the three-day virtual even...

Active Exploits Hit WordPress Sites Vulnerable to Thrive Themes Flaws

Attackers are actively exploiting two recently-patched vulnerabilities in a popular suite of tools for WordPress websites from marketing platform Thrive Themes. Thrive Themes offers various products to help WordPress websites “convert visitors into leads and customers.” Its suite of products,...

CISA Warns of Security Flaws in GE Power Management Devices

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is warning of critical-severity security flaws in GE’s Universal Relay UR family of power management devices. GE’s UR devices are the “basis of simplified power management for the protection of critical assets,” according to the company...

USN-4859-1 libmediainfo vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MediaInfoLib contained multiple security issues when handling certain multimedia files. If a user were tricked into opening a crafted multimedia file, an attacker could cause MediaInfoLib to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

The vulnerability of the LDAP library in the Samba networking software package allows attackers to compromise data integrity due to security flaws.

The vulnerability of the LDAP library in the Samba networking software package is related to security flaws. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to compromise data integrity remotely...