Ongoing Phishing and Malware Campaigns in December 2024

Cyber attackers never stop inventing new ways to compromise their targets. That's why organizations must stay updated on the latest threats. Here's a quick rundown of the current malware and phishing attacks you need to know about to safeguard your infrastructure before they reach you. Zero-day...

Google Fends Off Fourth Zero-Day in May

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Hackers Deploy Python Backdoor in Palo Alto Zero-Day Attack

Threat actors have been exploiting the newly disclosed zero-day flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software dating back to March 26, 2024, nearly three weeks before it came to light yesterday. The network security company's Unit 42 division is tracking the activity under the name Operation...

CVE-2023-7102

Use of a Third Party library produced a vulnerability in Barracuda Networks Inc. Barracuda ESG Appliance which allowed Parameter Injection.This issue affected Barracuda ESG Appliance, from 5.1.3.001 through 9.2.1.001, until Barracuda removed the vulnerable logic...

CVE-2023-35078: Critical API Access Vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile

CVE-2023-35078 is a remote unauthenticated API access vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile, which was previously branded as MobileIron Core. The vulnerability has a CVSS v3 base score of 10.0 and has a severity rating of Critical. Ivanti has reported that they have received information...

Two Zero-day Supply Chain Attacks Found in the Python Package Index

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A zero-day supply chain attack called "aioconsol" was discovered on December 9, 2022 in a Python package published on the Python Package Index PyPI on December 6, 2022. All three versions of the package...

CVE-2022-41082

Microsoft Exchange Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Recent assessments: zeroSteiner at January 10, 2023 2:58pm UTC reported: CVE-2022-41082, also known as ProxyNotShell is an authenticated RCE in Microsoft Exchange. ProxyNotShell actually combines CVE-2022-41082 and CVE-2022-41040 for t...

Microsoft Issues Patches for 121 Flaws, Including Zero-Day Under Active Attack

As many as 121 new security flaws were patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for the month of August, which also includes a fix for a Support Diagnostic Tool vulnerability that the company said is being actively exploited in the wild. Of the 121 bugs, 17 are rated Critical, 10...

New 0-Day Attack Targeting Windows Users With Microsoft Office Documents

Microsoft on Tuesday warned of an actively exploited zero-day flaw impacting Internet Explorer that's being used to hijack vulnerable Windows systems by leveraging weaponized Office documents. Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 CVSS score: 8.8, the remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML aka Triden...

Chinese Hackers Exploited Latest SolarWinds 0-Day in Targeted Attacks

Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed that the latest string of attacks targeting SolarWinds Serv-U managed file transfer service with a now-patched remote code execution RCE exploit is the handiwork of a Chinese threat actor dubbed "DEV-0322." The revelation comes days after the Texas-based IT monitori...

CVE-2021-28310

Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at April 13, 2021 8:41pm UTC reported: Ah, another day, another Win32k privilege escalation used in the wild. Securelist has a good write-up on this bug, which they discovered because it was used in a BITTER APT zero-day...

Oracle Solaris Zero-Day Attack Revealed

A previously known threat group, called UNC1945, has been compromising telecommunications companies and targeting financial and professional consulting industries, by exploiting a security flaw in Oracle’s Solaris operating system. Researchers said that the group was exploiting the bug when it wa...

How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach

I'm not a huge fan of stories about stories, or those that explore the ins and outs of reporting a breach. But occasionally I feel obligated to publish such accounts when companies respond to a breach report in such a way that it's crystal clear they wouldn't know what to do with a data breach if...

Ransomware Attack Hobbles Prestigious University College London

University College London, one of the U.K.’s prestigious public research universities, has closed off access to personal and shared drives after a ransomware attack was detected late Wednesday afternoon. University officials said this morning that this was a web-based infection, reversing claims...

The EPS Awakens

On September 8, FireEye published details about an attack exploiting zero day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office CVE-2015-2545 and Windows CVE-2015-2546. The attack was particularly notable because it leveraged PostScript to drive memory corruption in a way that had never been seen before. The...

Cloud application security: preventing security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Currently, cloud-based applications are widely used, and with amazing speed growing. Since cloud-based applications can be accessed through the Internet, and anyone, anywhere can access – therefore, application security becomes particularly important. This is why the creation and management of...

MS14-017 Microsoft Word RTF Object Confusion Exploit

This Metasploit module creates a malicious RTF file that when opened in vulnerable versions of Microsoft Word will lead to code execution. The flaw exists in how a listoverridecount field can be modified to treat one structure as another. This bug was originally seen being exploited in the wild...

Japanese word processor 'Ichitaro' zero-day attack discovered in the wild

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Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack spreads on 9 other sites

Watering hole Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack on the US Department of Labor website last week has spread to 9 more global websites over the weekend, including those run by a big European company operating in the aerospace, defense, and security industries as well as non-profit groups and...

Facebook hacked in Zero-Day Attack

Facebook operator of the largest social network with more than 1 billion members, said on Friday it had been the target of an unidentified hacker group, but that no user information was compromised during the attack. The attack occurred when a handful of the company's employees visited a...