Fortinet Firewalls Hit with New Zero-Day Attack, Older Data Leak

Executive summary Rapid7 is investigating two separate events affecting Fortinet firewall customers: Zero-day exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, an authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy disclosed earlier this week. Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to gain...

Patch Tuesday, December 2024 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 70 security holes in Windows and Windows software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited in active attacks. The zero-day seeing exploitation involves CVE-2024-49138, a security weakness in the Windows Common Log File System...

APT-C-60 Group Exploit WPS Office Flaw to Deploy SpyGlace Backdoor

A South Korea-aligned cyber espionage has been linked to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched critical remote code execution flaw in Kingsoft WPS Office to deploy a bespoke backdoor dubbed SpyGlace. The activity has been attributed to a threat actor dubbed APT-C-60, according to cybersecuri...

Chinese Volt Typhoon Exploits Versa Director Flaw, Targets U.S. and Global IT Sectors

The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Volt Typhoon has been attributed with moderate confidence to the zero-day exploitation of a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Versa Director. The attacks targeted four U.S. victims and one non-U.S. victim in the Internet...

UNC3886 Uses Fortinet, VMware 0-Days and Stealth Tactics in Long-Term Spying

The China-nexus cyber espionage actor linked to the zero-day exploitation of security flaws in Fortinet, Ivanti, and VMware devices has been observed utilizing multiple persistence mechanisms in order to maintain unfettered access to compromised environments. "Persistence mechanisms encompassed...

Rapid7 Releases the 2024 Attack Intelligence Report

Today, during our Take Command Summit, we released our 2024 Attack Intelligence Report, which pulls in expertise from our researchers, our detection and response teams, and threat intelligence teams. The result is the clearest picture yet of the expanding attack surface and the threats security...

Warning: New Malware Emerges in Attacks Exploiting Ivanti VPN Vulnerabilities

Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other threat groups during post-exploitation activity targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. This includes custom web shells such as BUSHWALK,...

CVE-2023-46805

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the web component of Ivanti ICS 9.x, 22.x and Ivanti Policy Secure allows a remote attacker to access restricted resources by bypassing control checks. Recent assessments: cbeek-r7 at January 11, 2024 10:43am UTC reported: CVE-2023-46805 is an...

Mandiant Tracks Four Uncategorized Groups Exploiting Citrix Vulnerability

By Waqas Mandiant Investigates Zero-Day Exploitation in Citrix Vulnerability, CVE-2023-4966. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mandiant Tracks Four Uncategorized Groups Exploiting Citrix Vulnerability...

Nation State Hackers Exploiting Zero-Day in Roundcube Webmail Software

The threat actor known as Winter Vivern has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Roundcube webmail software on October 11, 2023, to harvest email messages from victims' accounts. "Winter Vivern has stepped up its operations by using a zero-day vulnerability in Roundcube," ESET security...

CVE-2023-28252

Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability Recent assessments: ccondon-r7 at April 12, 2023 3:18pm UTC reported: This was discovered because of zero-day exploitation perpetrated by a skilled adversary — final payload was Nokoyawa ransomware in at least one case, as...

The Bug Report October 2022 Edition

The Bug Report — October 2022 Edition By Trellix · November 2, 2022 This story was written by Richard Johnson. Do ROP exploits count as jmp scares? Why am I here? Welcome back to the Bug Report: Spooky Edition, and we’ve got bugs crawling out of the walls! Of all the months we do this, we’ve foun...

Zero-Day Exploitation Increasingly Demonstrates Access to Money, Rather than Skill — Intelligence for Vulnerability Management, Part One

One of the critical strategic and tactical roles that cyber threat intelligence CTI plays is in the tracking, analysis, and prioritization of software vulnerabilities that could potentially put an organization’s data, employees and customers at risk. In this four-part blog series, FireEye Mandian...

FTPRush - Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== FTPRush - Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/20.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxr35RAcaUA Release Date: ============= 2011-06-16 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...