Navigating Vendor Risk Management as IT Professionals

One of the great resources available to businesses today is the large ecosystem of value-added services and solutions. Especially in technology solutions, there is no end to the services of which organizations can avail themselves. In addition, if a business needs a particular solution or service...

Titan Framework <= 1.12.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Description The iframe-font-preview.php file of the titan-framework does not properly escape the font-weight and font-family GET parameters before outputting them back in an href attribute, leading to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting issues Edit WPScanTeam: - The original report mentioned the issue...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2021-20090

Arcadyan Buffalo firmware contains a path traversal vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to bypass authentication and access sensitive information. This vulnerability affects multiple routers across several different vendors...

Smart car chargers. Plug-n-play for hackers?

Over the last 18 months, we’ve been investigating the security of smart electric vehicle chargers. These allow the owner to remotely monitor and manage the charge state, speed and timing of their car charger, among many functions. We bought 6 different brands of chargers and also reviewed securit...

New Collaboration with Adobe and MAPP

Collaboration with industry partners is helping secure the digital world by distributing Trend Micro vulnerability information to security vendors more quickly so they can enhance protection for their customers...

China's New Law Requires Vendors to Report Zero-Day Bugs to Government

The Cyberspace Administration of China CAC has issued new stricter vulnerability disclosure regulations that mandate software and networking vendors affected with critical flaws to mandatorily disclose them first-hand to the government authorities within two days of filing a report. The...

Babuk Ransomware Builder Mysteriously Appears in VirusTotal

The Babuk ransomware gang’s source code has been uploaded to VirusTotal, making it available to all security vendors and competitors. It’s unclear however just how that happened. According to a Wednesday posting from Malwarebytes, the operators of the ransomware – perhaps best-known for hitting t...

Fixed vulnerabilities in various Intel processors, chipsets, firmware, drivers and tools

Intel has fixed a sizable number of vulnerabilities in a range of processors, chipsets, firmware, drivers and tools. Many of the named chipsets are integrated and mostly present in systems built with Intel hardware. The associated tooling is generally included and installed by default. A maliciou...

Microarchitectural Data Sampling Advisory

Summary: A potential security vulnerability in CPUs may allow information disclosure. Intel is releasing Microcode Updates MCU updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability. Vulnerability Details: CVEID: CVE-2018-12126 Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS: Store buffers on some...

Q2 2018 Speculative Execution Side Channel Update

Summary: Security researchers identified two software analysis methods that, if used for malicious purposes, have the potential to improperly gather sensitive data from multiple types of computing devices with different vendors’ processors and operating systems. Intel is committed to product and...

How a Former Netflix Exec Built a Brazen Bribery Scheme

The company’s ex-vice president of IT faces 20 years in prison for creating a pay-to-play environment with technology vendors...

IoT riddled with BadAlloc vulnerabilities

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has published advisory ICSA-21-119-04 about vulnerabilities found in multiple real-time operating systems RTOS and supporting libraries. Those operating systems and libraries are widely used in smart, Internet-connected "things". The numbe...

Microsoft Warns of 25 Critical Vulnerabilities in IoT, Industrial Devices

Security researchers at Microsoft are warning the industry about 25 as-yet undocumented critical memory-allocation vulnerabilities across a number of vendors’ IoT and industrial devices that threat actors could exploit to execute malicious code across a network or cause an entire system to crash...

CVE-2021-25317

It was found that some Linux vendors may assign the ownership of the /var/log/cups directory to the lp user. This could allow an attacker with such privileges to create empty files in arbitrary locations, or to force arbitrary files to be opened and closed, using a symlink attack. This has a low...

Cybersecurity Webinar: Understanding the 2020 MITRE ATT&CK Results

The release of MITRE Engenuity's Carbanak+Fin7 ATT&CK evaluations every year is a benchmark for the cybersecurity industry. The organization's tests measure how well security vendors can detect and respond to threats and offers an independent metric for customers and security leaders to understan...

Passwordstate Password Manager Update Hijacked to Install Backdoor on Thousands of PCs

Click Studios, the Australian software company behind the Passwordstate password management application, has notified customers to reset their passwords following a supply chain attack. The Adelaide-based firm said a bad actor used sophisticated techniques to compromise the software's update...

Researchers uncover a new Iranian malware used in recent cyberattacks

An Iranian threat actor has unleashed a new cyberespionage campaign against a possible Lebanese target with a backdoor capable of exfiltrating sensitive information from compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Check Point attributed the operation to APT34, citing similarities with previous...

MITRE Madness: A Guide to Weathering the Upcoming Vendor Positioning Storm

April is usually a whirlwind month for the cybersecurity industry as it coincides with the release of the highly regarded and influential MITRE ATT&CK test results. The ATT&CK test measures cybersecurity platforms' abilities to detect and react to emulated, multistep attacks that can be used as a...

MITRE Madness: A Guide to Weathering the Upcoming Vendor Positioning Storm

April is usually a whirlwind month for the cybersecurity industry as it coincides with the release of the highly regarded and influential MITRE ATT&CK test results. The ATT&CK test measures cybersecurity platforms' abilities to detect and react to emulated, multistep attacks that can be used as a...

MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 2: Ingestion of Network Device Data

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” There are many factors to consider when assessing which Managed Detection and Response MDR vendor is the right f...