PHP's Git Server Hacked to Insert Secret Backdoor to Its Source code

In yet another instance of a software supply chain attack, unidentified actors hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed unauthorized updates to insert a secret backdoor into its source code. The two malicious commits were pushed to the self-hosted "php-src"...

Apple Issues Urgent Patch Update for Another Zero‑Day Under Attack

Merely weeks after releasing out-of-band patches for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS, Apple has issued yet another security update for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch to fix a critical zero-day weakness that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-1879 , the vulnerabilit...

Apple Issues Urgent Patch Update for Another Zero‑Day Under Attack

Merely weeks after releasing out-of-band patches for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS, Apple has issued yet another security update for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch to fix a critical zero-day weakness that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-1879, the vulnerability...

Another Critical RCE Flaw Discovered in SolarWinds Orion Platform

IT infrastructure management provider SolarWinds on Thursday released a new update to its Orion networking monitoring tool with fixes for four security vulnerabilities, counting two weaknesses that could be exploited by an authenticated attacker to achieve remote code execution RCE. Chief among...

Attacks Spike Following The Disclosure Of CVE-2021-22986: F5 Networks BIG-IP iControl Remote Command Execution Vulnerability

On March 10th F5 published a security advisory containing twenty one CVEs, the most critical one CVE-2021-22986 can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution attacks. In the past week, several security researchers have reverse engineered the Java software patch published by BIG-IP an...

A Homecoming Queen Was Arrested for Alleged Vote Hacking

Plus: A mysterious zero-day spree, a high-profile hacker indictment, and more of the week’s top security news...

Exchange Cyberattacks Escalate as Microsoft Rolls One-Click Fix

As dangerous attacks accelerate against Microsoft Exchange Servers in the wake of the disclosure around the ProxyLogon group of security bugs, a public proof-of-concept PoC whirlwind has started up. It’s all leading to a feeding frenzy of cyber-activity. The good news, however, is that Microsoft...

Google Warns Mac, Windows Users of Chrome Zero-Day Flaw

Google is hurrying out a fix for a vulnerability in its Chrome browser that’s under active attack – its third zero-day flaw so far this year. If exploited, the flaw could allow remote code-execution and denial-of-service attacks on affected systems. The vulnerability exists in Blink, the browser...

Microsoft Exchange and Verkada Hacks: Isolate Your Apps and APIs from the Internet Cesspool

It's been an interesting start to March in terms of public security incidents. This month kicked off with multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server. And, as if that wasn't enough, that attack was quickly followed by the news that a hacktivis...

Another Google Chrome 0-Day Bug Found Actively Exploited In-the-Wild

Google has addressed yet another actively exploited zero-day in Chrome browser, marking the second such fix released by the company within a month. The browser maker on Friday shipped 89.0.4389.90 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which is expected to be rolling out over the coming days/weeks to all...

Another Google Chrome 0-Day Bug Found Actively Exploited In-the-Wild

Google has addressed yet another actively exploited zero-day in Chrome browser, marking the second such fix released by the company within a month. The browser maker on Friday shipped 89.0.4389.90 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which is expected to be rolling out over the coming days/weeks to all...

ProxyLogon PoC Exploit Released; Likely to Fuel More Disruptive Cyber Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI on Wednesday issued a joint advisory warning of active exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange on-premises products by nation-state actors and cybercriminals. "CISA and FBI...

Security Advisory: Mitigating the Risk of Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day ProxyLogon Vulnerabilities

Microsoft recently released several security updates for Microsoft Exchange Server to address vulnerabilities that sophisticated nation-state actors are exploiting to exfiltrate critical data from a variety of organizations. Reports suggest attackers have been targeting these vulnerabilities sinc...

Schneider Electric IGSS SCADA Software

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Schneider Electric Equipment: IGSS Interactive Graphical SCADA System Vulnerabilities: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these...

More on the Chinese Zero-Day Microsoft Exchange Hack

Nick Weaver has an excellent post on the Microsoft Exchange hack: The investigative journalist Brian Krebs has produced a handy timeline of events and a few things stand out from the chronology. The attacker was first detected by one group on Jan. 5 and another on Jan. 6, and Microsoft acknowledg...

Microsoft Issues Security Patches for 89 Flaws — IE 0-Day Under Active Attacks

Microsoft plugged as many as 89 security flaws as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday updates released today, including fixes for an actively exploited zero-day in Internet Explorer that could permit an attacker to run arbitrary code on target machines. Of these flaws, 14 are listed as Critical, an...

Microsoft Issues Security Patches for 89 Flaws — IE 0-Day Under Active Attacks

Microsoft plugged as many as 89 security flaws as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday updates released today, including fixes for an actively exploited zero-day in Internet Explorer that could permit an attacker to run arbitrary code on target machines. Of these flaws, 14 are listed as Critical, an...

Microsoft Exchange attacks cause panic as criminals go shell collecting

Only last week we posted a blog about multiple zero-day exploits being used to attack on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server in limited and targeted attacks. Seeing how this disclosure came with a patch being available, under normal circumstances you would see some companies update...

SolarWinds Hack — New Evidence Suggests Potential Links to Chinese Hackers

A malicious web shell deployed on Windows systems by leveraging a previously undisclosed zero-day in SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring software may have been the work of a possible Chinese threat group. In a report published by Secureworks on Monday, the cybersecurity firm attributed the...

SolarWinds Hack — New Evidence Suggests Potential Links to Chinese Hackers

A malicious web shell deployed on Windows systems by leveraging a previously undisclosed zero-day in SolarWinds' Orion network monitoring software may have been the work of a possible Chinese threat group. In a report published by Secureworks on Monday, the cybersecurity firm attributed the...