Microsoft addressed three zero-day vulnerabilities March 2022 Patch Tuesday Update

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Microsoft addressed 71 the following vulnerabilities in their March 2022 Patch Tuesday Update. This advisory briefs about six vulnerabilities out of which three of them have been rated critical in severity and three of them ar...

Text2Shell: Vulnerability like Log4Shell in Apache Common Texts

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new vulnerability in Apache Commons Text has been named text2shell. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code on servers running affected applications. Due to t...

Weekly Threat Digest: 4 – 10 April 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 438 3 3 53 16 54 The second week of April 2022 witnessed the discovery of 438 vulnerabilities out of which 3 gaine...

Grafana releases an emergency patch for a Zero-Day vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. A vulnerability in Chrome and Microsoft Edge Chromium-based exists as a result of a use-after-free Grafana, a database analyzing, and monitoring tool used by major companies has been affected by a high severe zero-day...

VMware products impacted by an authentication bypass vulnerability and other flaws

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary VMware has addressed multiple vulnerabilities, including an authentication bypass CVE-2022-31656, remote code execution CVE-2022-31658, CVE-2022-31659, and CVE-2022-31665, and many more flaws...

Mozilla Firefox patches multiple vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Mozilla Firefox has released a major security update which patches 9 high, 6 moderate and 3 low impact vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities classified as high are: CVE-2022-22746: Callnnto reportValdty could ave lead to...

Vulnerabilities & Threats that Matter 08 – 14th Aug

Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Active Threat Groups Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 563 14 3 69 08 71 For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary The second week of August 2022 witnessed the discovery of 563 vulnerabilities out of whi...

Bypass Authentication vulnerability in Atlassian Jira Seraph

THREAT LEVEL: Green. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Atlassian has addressed a vulnerability in its Jira Seraph software, tracked as CVE-2022-0540. An unauthenticated attacker can use to bypass authentication. By submitting a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected...

Atlassian Addresses Critical RCE Flaws

Summary: Four critical vulnerabilities, namely CVE-2023-22522, CVE-2023-22523, CVE-2023-22524, and CVE-2022-1471, have been identified impacting the Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket servers, along with a companion app for macOS. If successfully exploited, these vulnerabilities could lead to remote...

Exploitation of Follina leads to takeover of domain controller

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The recent incident is related to TA570, wherein the attackers exploited the Follina vulnerability CVE-2022-30190 to compromise the Domain Controller and eventually gain access to confidential files...

Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in WordPress PHP everywhere Plugin

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Three critical remote code execution RCE vulnerabilities in a WordPress plugin PHP everywhere have been discovered. It is a plugin that allows web developers to utilize PHP code in pages, posts, the sidebar, or anywhere on...

Critical VMware Vulnerabilities Leading To Sandbox Escape

Summary: Critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-22252, CVE-2024-22253, CVE-2024-22254, and CVE-2024-22255 have been addressed by Vmware. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to bypass virtual machines and execute commands on the host machine. Workstation, Fusion, Cloud Foundation, and VMwa...

Critical Security Vulnerabilities Uncovered in Nagios XI

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Several security vulnerabilities have been identified in Nagios XI, a network monitoring software, which could potentially lead to privilege escalation and information disclosure. These...

Google patches chrome zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Google just released a major security update for Google Chrome that addresses eleven vulnerabilities, including two zero-day flaws that have been exploited in the wild. A remote attacker might take use of the flaws by trickin...

Security Updates in Multiple Products of Adobe

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Products: 16 critical vulnerabilities have been fixed in Adobe Acrobat and Reader which are listed below: Code execution: CVE-2021-44701, CVE-2021-44704, CVE-2021-44705...

New Attack Group Clasiopa Targets Materials Research Organization in Asia with Custom Malware

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A new attack group called Clasiopa has been observed targeting materials research organizations in Asia using a distinct toolset that includes a custom malware called Backdoor.Atharvan. It is unclear wher...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 19 June to 25 June 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, the fact that there were a total of twelve attacks executed, taking advantage of seventeen different vulnerabilities ...

Cisco IOS XR Flaws Enable Privilege Elevation and DoS Attacks

Summary: Three high-severity vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Cisco IOS XR software, posing risks of denial-of-service DoS attacks and elevation of privilege. These vulnerabilities are tracked as CVE-2024-20320, CVE-2024-20318, and CVE-2024-20327. Threat Level - Amber | Vulnerability...

Attackers could gain root access using vulnerability in Linux Kernel Netfilter Firewall

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. A flaw in the Linux kernel has been discovered. If exploited, this flaw could allow a local attacker to gain privileges on targeted systems, allowing them to escape containers, execute arbitrary code, or cause a kernel pani...

Randori discovered Zero-day in Palo Alto’s GlobalProtect Firewall, affecting ~10,000 assets.

Outline Palo Alto Networks PAN released an update on November 10, 2021, that patched CVE-2021-3064, which was discovered and disclosed by Randori. This vulnerability affects PAN firewalls that use the GlobalProtect Portal VPN, and it allows for unauthenticated remote code execution on susceptible...

Sophos Firewall RCE vulnerability actively exploited

THREAT LEVEL: Amber For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A security researcher has discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability that resides in the User Portal and Webadmin areas of Sophos Firewall. Attackers are actively exploiting this vulnerability to attack enterprises in...

New BOLDMOVE Backdoor uses FortiOS vulnerability for initial access

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A suspected China-nexus campaign has exploited a vulnerability in Fortinets FortiOS SSL-VPN, known as CVE-2022-42475. The exploitation was believed to have occurred as early as October 2022 and the targe...

Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Zyxel Firmware

THREAT LEVEL: Amber For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A severe vulnerability CVE-2022-0342 has been discovered in the firmware of some of Zyxels business-grade firewall and VPN products, potentially allowing attackers administrator-level access to affected devices. This...

Ivanti Addressed A New Zero-Day Flaw in Ivanti Sentry

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The zero-day vulnerability CVE-2023-38035 in Ivanti Sentry versions 9.18 and earlier allows unauthenticated access to sensitive APIs via port 8443, posing a risk of configuration manipulation and...

Zero-day vulnerability leveraged to deploy Cuba Ransomware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The threat actors behind the Cuba ransomware have stepped up their game by using a new Remote Access Trojan called ROMCOM and weaponizing a local privilege escalation vulnerabilityCVE-2022-24521. A wide range o...

Zero-Day vulnerability in WPGateway Plugin compromises WordPress sites

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The recently uncovered CVE-2022-3180 zero-day vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to add an administrator account to WPGateway-powered websites. WPGateway is a commercial plugin that...

Zero-Click Outlook RCE Exploitation Chain in Windows

Summary: Two vulnerabilities CVE-2023-35384 and CVE-2023-36710 in Microsoft Windows can be chained to achieve remote code execution RCE on vulnerable Outlook clients. Attackers can exploit these flaws by sending a crafted email with a custom notification sound file to trigger the download of a...

VMware Unveils Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in VCD Appliance

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary VMware has disclosed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Cloud Director appliance deployments. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-34060, the flaw could be exploited by...

Ransomware Threats Exploit CVE-2023-46604 in Apache ActiveMQ Servers

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Ransomware groups and SparkRAT exploiting a critical vulnerability CVE-2023-46604 in Apache ActiveMQ, despite a security update on October 27, 2023, affecting systems with outdated ActiveMQ...

Microsoft’s privilege escalation vulnerability that refuses to go away

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here After seven months, a vulnerability that was addressed in August 2021 patch Tuesday remained unpatched. This locally exploited vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2021-34484 and affects the Windows User Profile Service. While...

Microsoft Rolled Out SPNEGO NEGOEX Critical Vulnerability

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Microsoft updated the severity level of the CVE-2022-37958 vulnerability from high to critical after discovering that threat actors can use the vulnerability to execute code remotely...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday April 2022 addressed two zero-day vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Microsoft addressed 128 vulnerabilities in there April patch Tuesday update. Two of them have been categorized as zero-day vulnerabilities. One of the two zero-days is exploited-in-the-wild as well. The vulnerability,...

Admins Urged to Uninstall VMware EAP Amid Critical Flaws

Summary: VMware has issued a warning to administrators regarding two unaddressed security vulnerabilities necessitating the removal of an outdated authentication plugin. Identified as CVE-2024-22245 and CVE-2024-22250, these vulnerabilities enable session hijacking and authentication relay attack...

Cinoshi A Novel Malware-as-a-Service Platform

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Cinoshi is a new MaaS platform with a toolkit including a stealer, botnet, clipper, and crypto-miner. Offering free stealer and web panel is rare. To receive real-time threat advisories, please follow...

Akira Ransomware Exploits Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerability

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The zero-day vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-20269, is a concerning security issue that impacts the remote access VPN feature of Cisco ASA Adaptive Security Appliance and FTD Firepower Threa...

Actors, Threats and Vulnerabilities 5 June to 11 June 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, the fact that there were a total of seven attacks executed, taking advantage of five different vulnerabilities in...

First zero-day vulnerability of Google Chrome this year actively exploited in wild

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Google released a stable channel update for their Chrome browser that contains a zero-day vulnerability and is actively being exploited-in-wild. This is the first zero-day bug reported in Chrome browser this year. A...

Critical Magento zero-day vulnerability actively exploiting multiple e-commerce websites

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Adobe issued an emergency advisory informing Adobe Commerce and Magento Open-Source product users of a critical zero-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. A zero-day vulnerability which has been...

Microsoft’s February 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses Two Zero-day Vulnerabilities

Summary: Microsofts February 2024 Patch Tuesday addresses 73 vulnerabilities, including actively exploited zero-days, spanning various products like Office, Exchange Server, and Windows Kernel. Critical flaws in Windows SmartScreenCVE-2024-21351, Internet Shortcut FilesCVE-2024-21412, and Microso...

Zero-day vulnerability in WebKit affects Apple macOS

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A third zero-day vulnerability has been identified since the latest zero-day bugs discovery in macOS Monterey in the year 2022. This flaw impacts the WebKit component, which is a cross-platform web browser engine that is...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 15 January to 21 January 2024

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, we identified a total of six executed attacks, two instances of adversary activity, and eight exploited...

Kinsing Exploits Looney Tunables Vulnerability to Breach Cloud Environments

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The threat actor Kinsing has recently been observed exploiting the Linux privilege escalation vulnerability known as "Looney Tunables CVE-2023-4911" as part of a new campaign aimed at breaching cloud...

Apple addresses the macOS code execution flaws

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary MacOS Ventura contains two security flaws that can be exploited to cause an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code. The CVE-2022-40303 vulnerability exists as a result of an integer overflow ...

SolarWinds Serv-U vulnerability exploited to deliver Log4j attack

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. SolarWinds is affected by a vulnerability CVE-2021-35247 due to improper input validation when processing LDAP queries in the Serv-U web login screen. Serv-U versions up to 15.2.5 are affected by this flaw and were fixed in...

Weekly Threat Digest: 28 February – 6 March 2022

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Published Vulnerabilities Interesting Vulnerabilities Targeted Countries Targeted Industries ATT&CK TTPs 381 19 3 5 22 The first week of March 2022 witnessed the discovery of 381 vulnerabilities out of which 19 garnered the attention of...

Emergency patches have been released by Microsoft for PrintNightmare

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Attackers have been targeting Windows Print Spooler services for almost 2 months now. It started with the vulnerabilityCVE-2021-1675 being exploited in the wild. Soon a patch was released for the same. It was after 2 days tha...

REvil Ransomware gang behind the Kaseya VSA Supply-Chain attack

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. The REvil ransomware group was successful in carrying out a supply chain attack by exploiting the zero-day vulnerability CVE-2021-30116 in the Kaseya VSA server and delivering a malicious script to all the computer devices...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 9 October to 15 October 2023

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs has recently made several significant discoveries related to cybersecurity threats. Over the past week, we identified a total of twenty executed attacks, two instance of adversary activity, and fourteen vulnerabilitie...

Iranian hackers leveraged Log4Shell to penetrate US federal agency

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Iranian APT activity was detected on the networks of federal agencies. The intruders utilized an exploit targeting Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 to install XMRig crypto mining software on an unpatched VMware...

‘ThemeBleed’ flaw in Windows 11 Enables Code Execution

Threat Level Vulnerability Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The CVE-2023-38146 vulnerability in Windows 11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, potentially compromising the affected systems security and integrity, and posing a significant...