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North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity
The Department of Homeland Security DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have identified a malware variant—referred to as ELECTRICFISH—used by the North Korean government. The U.S. Government refers to malicious cyber activity by the North Korean government as HIDDEN COBRA. The...
ASUS Releases Security Update for Live Update Software
ASUS has released Live Update version 3.6.8. This version addresses vulnerabilities that a remote attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. These vulnerabilities were detected in exploits in the wild. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users a...
Internet Romance Scams
The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an article addressing a rise in reports of internet romance scams. In this type of fraud, cyber criminals gain the confidence of their victims and trick them into sending money. Use caution when online dating, and never send money or gifts to someone...
Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox
Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox and Firefox ESR. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part of the Cybersecurity and...
Data Privacy Day
January 28 is Data Privacy Day DPD, an annual effort to promote data privacy awareness and education. This year’s DPD events, sponsored by the National Cyber Security Alliance NCSA, focus around the theme, A New Era in Privacy. The NCSA Stay Safe Online website will feature a live stream of the...
Drupal Releases Security Updates
Drupal has released security updates addressing vulnerabilities in Drupal 7.x, 8.5.x, and 8.6.x. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part of the Cybersecurity and...
Cisco Releases Security Updates
Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliance. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service condition. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part o...
Adobe Releases Security Updates
Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...
Bomb Threats Emailed Around the World
The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC, part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, is aware of a worldwide email campaign targeting businesses and organizations with bomb threats. The emails claim that a device will detonate unless a ransom ...
3ve – Fraudulent Online Advertising
The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have released a joint Technical Alert TA on a major online ad fraud operation—referred to by the U.S. Government as "3ve." NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Alert TA18-331A: 3ve – Major Online Ad Fraud...
Holiday Scams and Malware Campaigns
As the holidays approach, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA reminds users to be aware of seasonal scams and malware campaigns. Users should be cautious of unsolicited emails that contain malicious links or attachments with malware, advertisements infected with malware, and...
Mozilla Releases Security Update for Thunderbird ESR
Mozilla has released a security update to address vulnerabilities in Thunderbird ESR. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Thunderbird ESR 60.3 and apply...
Drupal Releases Security Updates
Drupal has released security updates addressing multiple vulnerabilities in Drupal 7.x and 8.x. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Drupal's Security Advisory and apply the necessa...
NCCIC Webinar Series on Protecting Enterprise Network Infrastructure Devices
NCCIC is conducting a series of webinars on protecting enterprise network infrastructure devices. The webinar on Thursday, October 4, 2018, is the last in the series, and will be held from 1-2:30 p.m. ET. NCCIC encourages decision makers, network defenders, and procurement analysts to register fo...
Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox
Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox and Firefox ESR. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Firefox 62.0.3 and Firefo...
Adobe Releases Security Updates
Adobe has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Adobe Security Bulletin APSB18-30 and apply the...
Cisco Releases Security Update
Cisco has released a security update to address a vulnerability in Cisco Data Center Network Manager. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain access to sensitive information. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the Cisco Security Advisory and apply the necessa...
Oracle Releases July 2018 Security Bulletin
Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for July 2018 to address 334 vulnerabilities across multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the Oracle July 2018 Critic...
Adobe Releases Security Updates
Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Connect, and Adobe Experience Manager. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrato...
Apple Releases Multiple Security Updates
Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Apple security pages for the following products and apply the...
CIS Releases 2017 Year in Review
The Center for Internet Security CIS has released its 2017 Year in Review. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center MS-ISAC, an NCCIC partner focused on cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. state, local, tribal, and territorial...
Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products
Cisco has released several updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the following Cisco Security Advisories and apply the...
Microsoft Releases June 2018 Security Updates
Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft's June 2018 Security Update Summary and Deployment...
Mozilla Releases Security Update for Thunderbird
Mozilla has released a security update to address vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. A remote attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Thunderbird 52.8 and apply th...
Red Hat Addresses DHCP Client Vulnerability
Red Hat has released security updates to address a vulnerability in its Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP client packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to...
Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox
Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox ESR and Firefox. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisories for Firefox ESR 52.8 and...
Cisco Releases Security Updates
Cisco has released updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the following Cisco Security Advisories and apply the necessa...
Apple Releases Multiple Security Updates
Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review Apple security pages for the following products and apply the...
Tax Guidance as Deadline Approaches
As this year's April 17 tax deadline approaches, NCCIC/US-CERT offers taxpayers guidance to help protect their personal, financial, and tax information. Hackers can take advantage of taxpayers by using social engineering scams to attempt to steal personally identifiable information. NCCIC...
Apache Software Foundation Releases Security Update
The Apache Software Foundation has released a security update to address a vulnerability in Struts 2. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Apache Security Bulletin and make the...
OpenSSL Releases Security Updates
OpenSSL has released security updates to address a vulnerability in previous versions of 1.1.0 and 1.0.2. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the OpenSSL Security Advisory and apply the...
Red Hat Releases Security Guidance for Memcached
Red Hat has released security recommendations to address potential Distributed Denial of Service attacks using Memcached. This misconfiguration could allow an attacker to exploit Memcached services as a reflection and amplification vector, causing unexpected volumes of traffic to be sent to...
VMware Releases Security Updates
VMware has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in vRealize Automation, vSphere Integrated Containers, and AirWatch Console. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the VMwar...
Google Releases Security Update for Chrome
Google has released Chrome version 64.0.3282.119 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that a remote attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Chrome Releases page and apply the...
Oracle Releases January 2018 Security Bulletin
Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for January 2018 to address 237 vulnerabilities across multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to obtain access to sensitive information. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Oracle...
Meltdown and Spectre Side-Channel Vulnerabilities
US-CERT is aware of a set of security vulnerabilities—known as Meltdown and Spectre—that affect modern computer processors. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain access to sensitive information. Users and administrators are encouraged to review Vulnerability Note...
Mozilla Releases Security Update for Thunderbird
Mozilla has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Thunderbird 52.5....
Google Releases Security Update for Chrome
Google has released Chrome version 63.0.3239.108 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses a vulnerability that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Chrome Releases page and apply the necessary update...
Microsoft Releases December 2017 Security Updates
Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft's December 2017 Security Update Summary and...
Mozilla Releases Security Update for Firefox
Mozilla has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Firefox 57. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Firefox 57.0.1 and apply t...
Apache Software Foundation Releases Security Updates
The Apache Software Foundation has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Apache Struts versions 2.5 to 2.5.14. A remote attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apache Securit...
Holiday Scams and Malware Campaigns
US-CERT reminds users to remain vigilant when browsing or shopping online this holiday season. Emails and ecards from unknown senders may contain malicious links. Fake advertisements or shipping notifications may deliver attachments infected with malware. Spoofed email messages and phony posts on...
Apple Releases Multiple Security Updates
Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple security pages for the following products and apply...
IC3 Issues Alert on IoT Devices
In conjunction with National Cyber Security Awareness Month, the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert to individuals and businesses about the security risks involved with the Internet of Things IoT. IoT refers to the emerging network of devices e.g., smart TVs, home automation...
Adobe Releases Security Updates
Adobe has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Adobe Security Bulletin APSB17-32 and apply the necessary updates...
FTC Releases Alerts on Protecting Against Identity Theft
The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released two alerts to educate consumers on recommended protections against identity theft after the recent data breach at Equifax. Users should consider placing security freezes with the three major credit reporting agencies: Equifax, Transunion, and Experian...
DNSSEC Key Signing Key Rollover
On October 11, 2017, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN will be changing the Root Zone Key Signing Key KSK used in the domain name system DNS Security Extensions DNSSEC protocol. DNSSEC is a set of DNS protocol extensions used to digitally sign DNS information, which is...
Symantec Releases Security Update
Symantec has released an update to address vulnerabilities in the Symantec Messaging Gateway. Exploitation of one of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Symantec Security Advisory and...
Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome
Google has released Chrome version 60.0.3112.78 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses multiple vulnerabilities that, if exploited, may allow an attacker to take control of an affected system. Users and administrators are encouraged to review the Chrome Releases page and apply the...
Joomla! Releases Security Update
Joomla! has released version 3.7.3 of its Content Management System CMS software to address several vulnerabilities. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected website. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Joomla! Security...