New Zero-Trust API Offers Mobile Carrier Authentication to Developers

Zero Trust is increasingly being adopted as the best strategy to maintain application security and prevent data breaches. To help achieve progress on Zero Trust, there is now a new, easy way to implement continuous user verification by connecting directly to the authentication systems used by...

Detecting the "Next" SolarWinds-Style Cyber Attack

The SolarWinds attack, which succeeded by utilizing the sunburst malware, shocked the cyber-security industry. This attack achieved persistence and was able to evade internal systems long enough to gain access to the source code of the victim. Because of the far-reaching SolarWinds deployments, t...

Over 110,000 Websites Affected by Hijacked Polyfill Supply Chain Attack

Google has taken steps to block ads for e-commerce sites that use the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and modified the JavaScript library "polyfill.js" to redirect users to malicious and scam sites. "Protecting our users is our top priority. We detected a security...

Hackers Leak Personal Data from Hundreds of German Politicians On Twitter

Germany has been hit with the biggest hack in its history. A group of unknown hackers has leaked highly-sensitive personal data from more than 100 German politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brandenburg's prime minister Dietmar Woidke, along with some German artists, journalist...

New 'unc0ver' Tool Can Jailbreak All iPhone Models Running iOS 11.0 - 14.3

A popular jailbreaking tool called "unc0ver" has been updated to support iOS 14.3 and earlier releases, thereby making it possible to unlock almost every single iPhone model using a vulnerability that Apple in January disclosed was actively exploited in the wild. The latest release, dubbed unc0ve...

Microsoft Releases Emergency Patches for IE 0-Day and Windows Defender Flaw

It's not a Patch Tuesday, but Microsoft is rolling out emergency out-of-band security patches for two new vulnerabilities, one of which is a critical Internet Explorer zero-day that cyber criminals are actively exploiting in the wild. Discovered by Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Grou...

State-Sponsored SCADA Malware targeting European Energy Companies

Security researchers have discovered a new campaign targeting energy companies in Western Europe with a sophisticated malware that almost goes to great lengths in order to remain undetected while targeting energy companies. Researchers from SentinelOne Labs discovered the malware, which has alrea...

Hackers Could Turn Pre-Installed Antivirus App on Xiaomi Phones Into Malware

What could be worse than this, if the software that's meant to protect your devices leave backdoors open for hackers or turn into malware? Researchers today revealed that a security app that comes pre-installed on more than 150 million devices manufactured by Xiaomi, China's biggest and world's 4...

Hacking Instagram Accounts using OAuth vulnerability

'Nir Goldshlager' known as Facebook hacker and founder of Break Security , who reported many critical bugs in Facebook OAuth mechanism in past few months, today disclose a critical vulnerability in Instagram Oauth that allow an attacker to hack any account. Succesful hack allows attacker to acces...

Cytrox's Predator Spyware Targeted Android Users with Zero-Day Exploits

Google's Threat Analysis Group TAG on Thursday pointed fingers at a North Macedonian spyware developer named Cytrox for developing exploits against five zero-day aka 0-day flaws, four in Chrome and one in Android, to target Android users. "The 0-day exploits were used alongside n-day exploits as...

Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users' Data

Facebook yesterday removed its mobile VPN app called Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple declared the app violated the iPhone maker's App Store guidelines on data collection. For those who are unaware, Onavo Protect is a Facebook-owned Virtual Private Network VPN app that was primari...

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...

Japan, France, New Zealand Warn of Sudden Uptick in Emotet Trojan Attacks

Cybersecurity agencies across Asia and Europe have issued multiple security alerts regarding the resurgence of email-based Emotet malware attacks targeting businesses in France, Japan, and New Zealand. "The emails contain malicious attachments or links that the receiver is encouraged to download,...

Critical OpenSMTPD Bug Opens Linux and OpenBSD Mail Servers to Hackers

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new critical vulnerability CVE-2020-7247 in the OpenSMTPD email server that could allow remote attackers to take complete control over BSD and many Linux based servers. OpenSMTPD is an open-source implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol that was...

Chinese APT Hackers Used Log4Shell Exploit to Target Academic Institution

A never-before-seen China-based targeted intrusion adversary dubbed Aquatic Panda has been observed leveraging critical flaws in the Apache Log4j logging library as an access vector to perform various post-exploitation operations, including reconnaissance and credential harvesting on targeted...

DomainFactory Hacked—Hosting Provider Asks All Users to Change Passwords

Besides Timehop, another data breach was discovered last week that affects users of one of the largest web hosting companies in Germany, DomainFactory, owned by GoDaddy. The breach initially happened back in last January this year and just emerged last Tuesday when an unknown attacker himself...

Critical Flaws in Tank Gauge Systems Expose Gas Stations to Remote Attacks

Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in six different Automatic Tank Gauge ATG systems from five manufacturers that could expose them to remote attacks. "These vulnerabilities pose significant real-world risks, as they could be exploited by malicious actors to cause widespread...

Microsoft Warns of Unpatched IE Browser Zero-Day That's Under Active Attacks

Internet Explorer is dead, but not the mess it left behind. Microsoft earlier today issued an emergency security advisory warning millions of Windows users of a new zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer IE browser that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild — and there is no patch ye...

First Cyber Attack 'Mass Exploiting' BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new cyberattack that is believed to be the very first but an amateur attempt to weaponize the infamous BlueKeep RDP vulnerability in the wild to mass compromise vulnerable systems for cryptocurrency mining. In May this year, Microsoft released a patch for ...

Foxit PDF Software Company Suffers Data Breach—Asks Users to Reset Password

If you have an online account with Foxit Software, you need to reset your account password immediately—as an unknown attacker has compromised your personal data and log-in credentials. Foxit Software, a company known for its popular lightweight Foxit PDF Reader and PhantomPDF applications being...

CVE-2025-24054 Under Active Attack—Steals NTLM Credentials on File Download

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Microsoft Windows to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier...

The Incident Response Plan - Preparing for a Rainy Day

The unfortunate truth is that while companies are investing more in cyber defenses and taking cybersecurity more seriously than ever, successful breaches and ransomware attacks are on the rise. While a successful breach is not inevitable, it is becoming more likely despite best efforts to prevent...

8 New HTTP/2 Implementation Flaws Expose Websites to DoS Attacks

Various implementations of HTTP/2, the latest version of the HTTP network protocol, have been found vulnerable to multiple security vulnerabilities affecting the most popular web server software, including Apache, Microsoft's IIS, and NGINX. Launched in May 2015, HTTP/2 has been designed for bett...

Warning! Unprivileged Linux Users With UID > INT_MAX Can Execute Any Command

Hold tight, this may blow your mind… A low-privileged user account on most Linux operating systems with UID value anything greater than 2147483647 can execute any systemctl command unauthorizedly—thanks to a newly discovered vulnerability. The reported vulnerability actually resides in PolicyKit...

Microsoft Rolls Out Patches for 80 New Security Flaws — Two Under Active Attack

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday update for March 2023 is rolling out with remediations for a set of 80 security flaws, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Eight of the 80 bugs are rated Critical, 71 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. The updates are in...

Report: Nearly 75% of Infusion Pumps Affected by Severe Vulnerabilities

An analysis of data crowdsourced from more than 200,000 network-connected infusion pumps used in hospitals and healthcare entities has revealed that 75% of those medical devices contain security weaknesses that could put them at risk of potential exploitation. "These shortcomings included exposur...

Critical Root RCE Bug Affects Multiple Netgear SOHO Router Models

Networking equipment company Netgear has released yet another round of patches to remediate a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability affecting multiple routers that could be exploited by remote attackers to take control of an affected system. Tracked as CVE-2021-34991 CVSS score: 8.8,...

Zero-Day Alert: Google Chrome Under Active Attack, Exploiting New Vulnerability

Google has rolled out security updates to fix seven security issues in its Chrome browser, including a zero-day that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-6345, the high-severity vulnerability has been described as an integer overflow bug in Skia, an open source 2D...

New Woody RAT Malware Being Used to Target Russian Organizations

An unknown threat actor has been targeting Russian entities with a newly discovered remote access trojan called Woody RAT for at least a year as part of a spear-phishing campaign. The advanced custom backdoor is said to be delivered via either of two methods: archive files or Microsoft Office...

SideWinder Hackers Use Fake Android VPN Apps to Target Pakistani Entities

The threat actor known as SideWinder has added a new custom tool to its arsenal of malware that's being used in phishing attacks against Pakistani public and private sector entities. "Phishing links in emails or posts that mimic legitimate notifications and services of government agencies and...

Hackers Can Remotely Access Syringe Infusion Pumps to Deliver Fatal Overdoses

Internet-of-things are turning every industry into the computer industry, making customers think that their lives would be much easier with smart devices. However, such devices could potentially be compromised by hackers. There are, of course, some really good reasons to connect certain devices t...

Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway Devices Under Attack: CISA Urges Immediate Action

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued an advisory on Thursday warning that the newly disclosed critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller ADC and Gateway devices is being abused to drop web shells on vulnerable systems. "In June 2023...

Atlassian's Jira Service Management Found Vulnerable to Critical Vulnerability

Atlassian has released fixes to resolve a critical security flaw in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center that could be abused by an attacker to pass off as another user and gain unauthorized access to susceptible instances. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-22501 CVSS score: 9.4...

Android Issues Patches for 4 New Zero-Day Bugs Exploited in the Wild

Google on Wednesday updated its May 2021 Android Security Bulletin to disclose that four of the security vulnerabilities that were patched earlier this month by Arm and Qualcomm may have been exploited in the wild as zero-days. "There are indications that CVE-2021-1905, CVE-2021-1906,...

Russia to Fine Search Engines for Linking to Banned VPN services

In its years-long efforts to censor the Internet by blocking access to a large number of websites in the country, Russia has now approved a new bill introducing fines for search engines that provide links to banned sites, VPN services, and anonymization tools. VPNs, or Virtual Private Networks, a...

Salesforce Release Updates — A Cautionary Tale for Security Teams

On the surface, Salesforce seems like a classic Software-as-a-Service SaaS platform. Someone might even argue that Salesforce invented the SaaS market. However, the more people work with the full offering of Salesforce, the more they realize that it goes beyond a traditional SaaS platform's...

Critical Bug in Siemens SIMATIC PLCs Could Let Attackers Steal Cryptographic Keys

A vulnerability in Siemens Simatic programmable logic controller PLC can be exploited to retrieve the hard-coded, global private cryptographic keys and seize control of the devices. "An attacker can use these keys to perform multiple advanced attacks against Siemens SIMATIC devices and the relate...

APT Hackers Targeting Industrial Control Systems with ShadowPad Backdoor

Entities located in Afghanistan, Malaysia, and Pakistan are in the crosshairs of an attack campaign that targets unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers as an initial access vector to deploy the ShadowPad malware. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which first detected the activity in mid-October...

Alert: Hackers Exploit Adobe Reader 0-Day Vulnerability in the Wild

Adobe has released Patch Tuesday updates for the month of May with fixes for multiple vulnerabilities spanning 12 different products, including a zero-day flaw affecting Adobe Reader that's actively exploited in the wild. The list of updated applications includes Adobe Experience Manager, Adobe...

Critical Flaws Affecting GE's Universal Relay Pose Threat to Electric Utilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has warned of critical security shortcomings in GE's Universal Relay UR family of power management devices. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access sensitive information, reboot the UR, gain...

A Patient Dies After Ransomware Attack Paralyzes German Hospital Systems

German authorities last week disclosed that a ransomware attack on the University Hospital of Düsseldorf UKD caused a failure of IT systems, resulting in the death of a woman who had to be sent to another hospital that was 20 miles away. The incident marks the first recorded casualty as a...

Your Linux Can Get Hacked Just by Opening a File in Vim or Neovim Editor

Linux users, beware! If you haven't recently updated your Linux operating system, especially the command-line text editor utility, do not even try to view the content of a file using Vim or Neovim. Security researcher Armin Razmjou recently discovered a high-severity arbitrary OS command executio...

Wi-Fi Gets Simplified Version Numbers and Next Version is Wi-Fi 6

Do you know what is the latest version of Wi-Fi? It's okay if you don't know. It is — Wi-Fi is 802.11ac. I am sure many of us can't answer this question immediately because the Wi-Fi technology doesn't have a traditional format of version numbers… at least until yesterday. The Wi-Fi Alliance—the...

Popular Flight Tracker Flightradar24 Suffers Data Breach

One of the world's most popular flight tracking services Flightradar24, which shows real-time aircraft flight information on a map, has suffered a massive data breach that may have compromised email addresses and hashed passwords for more than 230,000 customers. Without revealing any information...

Rackspace Confirms Play Ransomware Gang Responsible for Recent Breach

Cloud services provider Rackspace on Thursday confirmed that the ransomware gang known as Play was responsible for last month's breach. The security incident, which took place on December 2, 2022, leveraged a previously unknown security exploit to gain initial access to the Rackspace Hosted...

Microsoft Issues Patches for In-the-Wild 0-day and 55 Others Windows Bugs

Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for 56 flaws, including a critical vulnerability that's known to be actively exploited in the wild. In all, 11 are listed as Critical, 43 are listed as Important, and two are listed as Moderate in severity — six of which are previously disclosed vulnerabilities...

1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack — ​Memcached UDP Reflections Set New Record

The bar has been raised. As more amplified attacks were expected following the record-breaking 1.35 Tbps Github DDoS attack, someone has just set a new record after only four days — 1.7 Tbps DDoS attack. Network security and monitoring company Arbor Networks claims that its ATLAS global traffic a...

Adobe Flash Player Update Patches 11 Critical Vulnerabilities

After the latest Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates that came with important patches for Stuxnet and FREAK encryption-downgrade attack, now its time to update your Adobe Flash Player. Adobe has rolled-out an update for its popular Flash Player software that patches a set of 11 critical security...

Warning: 3 Critical Vulnerabilities Expose ownCloud Users to Data Breaches

The maintainers of the open-source file-sharing software ownCloud have warned of three critical security flaws that could be exploited to disclose sensitive information and modify files. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2023-49103 CVSS score: 10.0 - Disclosure of...

7-Year-Old Polkit Flaw Lets Unprivileged Linux Users Gain Root Access

A seven-year-old privilege escalation vulnerability discovered in the polkit system service could be exploited by a malicious unprivileged local attacker to bypass authorization and escalate permissions to the root user. Tracked as CVE-2021-3560 CVSS score: 7.8, the flaw affects polkit versions...