Vulnerabilities found in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ products

F5 has identified several vulnerabilities in the BIG-IP and BIG-IQ products, including components such as iControl REST, iControl SOAP, TMOS Shell, Traffic Management Microkernel TMM, Configuration Utility, Advanced WAF, ASM, PEM, DNS, Access Policy Manager APM, and SSL Orchestrator. The...

Fears Mount That US Federal Cybersecurity Is Stagnating—or Worse

Government staffing cuts and instability, including this year’s prolonged shutdown, could be hindering US digital defense and creating vulnerabilities...

Deliberate Internet Shutdowns

For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, reportedly instituted "to prevent immoral activities." No additional explanation...

CVE-2025-38735 gve: prevent ethtool ops after shutdown

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: prevent ethtool ops after shutdown A crash can occur if an ethtool operation is invoked after shutdown is called. shutdown is invoked during system shutdown to stop DMA operations without performing expensive deallocations. ...

CVE-2004-0090

Unknown vulnerability in Windows File Sharing for Mac OS X 10.1.5 through 10.3.2 does not "shutdown properly," which has unknown impact and attack vectors...

Citrix Cloud VDIs hosted in Azure by Citrix Cloud shut down constantly with user sessions

When creating VDIs from a Master image that are rolled out with MCS into a Azure subscription - Users machines are constantly shutting down - Even when users are logged onto the machines, they consistently get shutdown after several minutes it can vary between 3-5 | 25-30 -The user will see a...

Telecom Giant BT Group Hit by Black Basta Ransomware

BT Group, a major telecommunications firm, has been hit by a ransomware attack from the Black Basta group. The attack targeted the company's Conferencing division, leading to server shutdowns and potential data theft...

Zero-day Flaws Exposed EV Chargers to Shutdowns and Data Theft

NCC Group experts share details of how they exploited critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Phoenix Contact EV chargers electric…...

Solidigm DC Products 安全漏洞

Solidigm DC Products is a line of solid state drives from Solidigm. A security vulnerability exists in Solidigm DC Products that originates from improperly shutting down resources while performing certain operations, resulting in a denial of service...

Internet Blackouts in Gaza Are a New Weapon in the Israel-Hamas War

Israel has said it’s prepared to disrupt internet service in Gaza, signaling a new age of warfare. In the past two weeks, the Palestinian territory has already suffered three communications shutdowns...

Cloud : Load balancing and Autoscale does not work properly in citrix cloud

Issues with Auto-scale and Load balancing on Cloud. Autoscale is configured to shut down half of the servers during the weekend. They have noticed there were once 138 sessions on Server until server crashed. Loadbalancing was not working as expected. Least loaded servers were not accepting sessio...

Major cyberattack leaves MGM Resorts reeling

A major incident impacting MGM Resorts has caused computer shutdowns all over the US. The systems most impacted are tied to casinos and hotel computer systems. According to the AP, locations caught by this shutdown range from New York and Ohio to Michigan and Mississippi. At this point Id link to...

WhatsApp Upgrades Proxy Feature Against Internet Shutdowns

Meta's WhatsApp has rolled out updates to its proxy feature, allowing more flexibility in the kind of content that can be shared in conversations. This includes the ability to send and receive images, voice notes, files, stickers and GIFs, WhatsApp told The Hacker News. The new features were firs...

WhatsApp Subverts Censorship with New Proxy Feature

By Habiba Rashid The new feature is specifically meant to help people maintain access to WhatsApp even if they are living in a repressive regime where internet shutdowns are common. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WhatsApp Subverts Censorship with New Proxy Feature...

This Week in Security News - January 7, 2022

This week, read about Log4j vulnerabilities in connected cars and charging stations and how iOS malware can fake iPhone shutdowns to snoop on cameras and microphones...

Unspecified vulnerability in DAQFactory

DAQFactory is a software and application development platform that provides a variety of tools that allow you to easily create HMI/SCADA applications. A security vulnerability exists in DAQFactory 18.1 Build 2347 and earlier versions. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker via a...

DarkSide Suffers ‘Oh, Crap!’ Server Shutdowns

DarkSide, the ransomware-as-a-server RaaS gang that crippled Colonial Pipeline Co. a week ago, extorted around $5 million, and sent the fuel company a decryption tool that reportedly could barely limp through the process of unlocking files, has now been paralyzed itself. In the wee hours of Frida...

CVE-2020-12926

The Trusted Platform Modules TPM reference software may not properly track the number of times a failed shutdown happens. This can leave the TPM in a state where confidential key material in the TPM may be able to be compromised. AMD believes that the attack requires physical access of the device...

Louisiana State Government Hit by Ransomware Attack Forcing Server Shutdowns

Targeted ransomware attacks on banking and finance, government, healthcare, and critical infrastructure are on the rise, with the latest victim being the state government of Louisiana. The state government of Louisiana was hit by a large-scale coordinated ransomware attack yesterday, which forced...

Baltimore City Shuts Down Most of Its Servers After Ransomware Attack

For the second time in just over a year, the city of Baltimore has been hit by a ransomware attack, affecting its computer network and forcing officials to shut down a majority of its computer servers as a precaution. Ransomware works by encryption files and locking them up so users can't access...