How to protect RDP

You didn’t really think that the ransomware wave was coming to an end, did you? You may be tempted to think so, given the decline in reports about massive ransomware campaigns. Dont be fooled. Over the last five years, one of the primary attack vectors for ransomware attacks has been the Remote...

RangnarLocker Ransomware hits Critical Infrastructure Compromising 50+ Organizations

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an alert on Ragnarlocker campaign that has affected nearly 52 organizations encompassing 10 critical infrastructure sectors, including entities in significant manufacturing,...

UNIVERGE WA Series vulnerable to OS command injection

Overview UNIVERGE WA Series provided by NEC Platforms, Ltd. contains an OS command injection vulnerability. Remote system maintenance feature of UNIVERGE WA series "Local maintenance console/Remote maintenance console/Web based remote console maintenance" contains an OS command injection...

JVN#72801744: UNIVERGE WA Series vulnerable to OS command injection

Remote system maintenance feature of UNIVERGE WA series "Local maintenance console/Remote maintenance console/Web based remote console maintenance" contains an OS command injection vulnerability CWE-78. Impact If an attacker who can access the product sends specific character strings or a special...

PT-2022-1643

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Redis versions prior to the fixed version Debian-specific Redis Server affected versions not specified Description A Lua sandbox escape vulnerability in Redis could result in remote code execution. The issue is related to a packaging problem a...

OS Command Injection in strong-nginx-controller

strong-nginx-controller through 1.0.2 is vulnerable to Command Injection. It allows execution of arbitrary command as part of the 'nginxCmd' function...

strong-arc (>=1.8.6, <=1.8.9), strong-mesh-client (>=1.3.5, <=2.0.2) +1 more potentially affected by CVE-2020-7621 via strong-nginx-controller (1.0.2)

strong-nginx-controller NPM version 1.0.2 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on strong-nginx-controller and may be impacted: - strong-arc =1.8.6, =1.3.5, =6.0.1, =6.0.3 Source cves: CVE-2020-7621 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-4V9W-PVWR-38H3...

GHSA-4V9W-PVWR-38H3 OS Command Injection in strong-nginx-controller

strong-nginx-controller through 1.0.2 is vulnerable to Command Injection. It allows execution of arbitrary command as part of the 'nginxCmd' function...

Ransomware Awareness for Holidays and Weekends

Summary Immediate Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against Ransomware • Make an offline backup of your data. • Do not click on suspicious links. • If you use RDP, secure and monitor it. • Update your OS and software. • Use strong passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. The Federal Bureau ...

Rapid7 Team Members Share Key Takeaways From AMP 2022

Each year, Rapid7 hosts AMP, our annual employee kickoff event where leaders from across the organization share their goals for the next 12 months. These goals bring us closer to achieving our mission of closing the security achievement gap. With the effects of COVID-19 still physically separatin...

Five Data Privacy Tips for Consumers

As a consumer, you must assume that your personal information is not 100% safe online. Hackers cause data breaches every single day, exposing our email addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers and other sensitive personal data in the process. Most people don’t think abou...

IBM Cognos Analytics 安全漏洞

IBM Cognos Analytics is a suite of business intelligence software from IBM Corporation. The software includes reports, dashboards and scorecards, and can help companies adjust their decisions by analyzing key factors and key people, etc. A security vulnerability exists in IBM Cognos Analytics,...

CVE-2021-20470

IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 and 11.2.0 does not require that users should have strong passwords by default, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 196339...

CISA Releases Capacity Enhancement Guides to Enhance Mobile Device Cybersecurity for Consumers and Organizations

CISA has released actionable Capacity Enhancement Guides CEGs to help users and organizations improve mobile device cybersecurity. The CEG: Mobile Device Cybersecurity Checklist for Consumers provides steps for consumers, including using strong authentication and enabling automatic operating syst...

Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Cyber Actors Exploiting Microsoft Exchange and Fortinet Vulnerabilities in Furtherance of Malicious Activities

Summary Actions to Take Today to Protect Against Iranian State-Sponsored Malicious Cyber Activity • Immediately patch software affected by the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-34473, 2018-13379, 2020-12812, and 2019-5591. • Implementmulti-factor authentication. • Usestrong, unique passwords.v...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : dhcp Vulnerability (NS-SA-2021-0111)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has dhcp packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - In ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 - 4.1-ESV-R16, ISC DHCP 4.4.0 - 4.4.2 Other branches of ISC DHCP i.e., releases in the 4.0.x series or lower and releases in the 4.3.x...

Feds Warn BlackMatter Ransomware Gang is Poised to Strike

Federal authorities are warning businesses to shore up cybersecurity defenses as it carefully monitors the reemergence of the DarkSide ransomware gang, believed responsible for the crippling Colonial Pipeline attack in May 2021. The ransomware-as-a-service gang has regrouped under the moniker...

3 key resources to accelerate your passwordless journey

Every organization today faces password-related challenges—phishing campaigns, productivity loss, and password management costs to name just a few. The risks now outweigh the benefits when it comes to passwords. Even the strongest passwords are easily phish-able and vulnerable to attacks, such as...

Keep Attackers Out of VPNs: NSA, CISA Offer Guidance

Unsecured VPNs can be a hot mess: Just ask Colonial Pipeline which got pwned by the REvil ransomware crooks with an old VPN password or the 87,000 at least Fortinet customers whose credentials for unpatched SSL-VPNs were posted online earlier this month. Vulnerabilities in VPN servers are like...

Securing mobile devices. A timely reminder

While home working might now be the norm for some, more and more people are going back to their place of work on a more regular basis. If you’re commuting again or if you’re responsible for securing your people’s devices it’s a good idea to revisit and review your security admin for mobile device...