Microsoft Warns of Another Unpatched Windows Print Spooler RCE Vulnerability

A day after releasing Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft acknowledged yet another remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler component, adding that it's working to remediate the issue in an upcoming security update. Tracked as CVE-2021-36958 CVSS score: 7.3, the unpatched flaw...

US Sanctions Russia and Expels 10 Diplomats Over SolarWinds Cyberattack

The U.S. and U.K. on Thursday formally attributed the supply chain attack of IT infrastructure management company SolarWinds with "high confidence" to government operatives working for Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service SVR. "Russia's pattern of malign behaviour around the world – whether in...

Why Cached Credentials Can Cause Account Lockouts and How to Stop it

When a user account becomes locked out, the cause is often attributed to a user who has simply entered an old or incorrect password too many times. However, this is far from being the only thing that can cause an account to become locked. Another common cause, for example, is an application or...

Facebook Messenger Bug Lets Hackers Listen to You Before You Pick Up the Call

Facebook has patched a bug in its widely installed Messenger app for Android that could have allowed a remote attacker to call unsuspecting targets and listen to them before even they picked up the audio call. The flaw was discovered and reported to Facebook by Natalie Silvanovich of Google's...

Microsoft Releases Patches For Critical Windows TCP/IP and Other Bugs

Microsoft on Tuesday issued fixes for 87 newly discovered security vulnerabilities as part of its October 2020 Patch Tuesday, including two critical remote code execution RCE flaws in Windows TCP/IP stack and Microsoft Outlook. The flaws, 11 of which are categorized as Critical, 75 are ranked...

5 High Impact Flaws Affect Cisco Routers, Switches, IP Phones and Cameras

Several Cisco-manufactured network equipments have been found vulnerable to five new security vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to take complete control over them, and subsequently, over the enterprise networks they power. Four of the five high-severity bugs are remote code execution issue...

Google DNS Service (8.8.8.8) Now Supports DNS-over-TLS Security

Almost every activity on the Internet starts with a DNS query, a key function of the Internet that works as an Internet's directory where your device looks up for the server IP addresses after you enter a human-readable web address e.g., thehackernews.com. Since DNS queries are sent in clear text...

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...

Researchers Warn of Ongoing Mass Exploitation of Zimbra RCE Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added two flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The two high-severity issues relate to weaknesses in Zimbra Collaboration, both of which could be chained to achieve...

5 Keys to Improve Your Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity isn't easy. If there was a product or service you could buy that would just magically solve all of your cybersecurity problems, everyone would buy that thing, and we could all rest easy. However, that is not the way it works. Technology continues to evolve. Cyber attackers adapt and...

Cynet's Free Incident Response Tool — Stop Active Attacks With Greater Visibility

The saying that there are two types of organizations, those that have gotten breached and those who have but just don't know it yet, has never been more relevant, making the sound incident response a required capability in any organization's security stack. To assist in this critical mission, Cyn...

Someone Stole Almost Half a BILLION Dollars from Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange

Coincheck, a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, has suffered what appears to be the biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrencies, losing $532 million in digital assets nearly $420 million in NEM tokens and $112 in Ripples. In 2014, Mt Gox, one of the largest bitcoin exchange at that time,...

CISA Issues Urgent Warning: Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on March 15 added a security vulnerability impacting Adobe ColdFusion to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The critical flaw in question is CVE-2023-26360 CVSS score: 8.6, which...

'Dirty Pipe' Linux Flaw Affects a Wide Range of QNAP NAS Devices

Network-attached storage NAS appliance maker QNAP on Monday warned of a recently disclosed Linux vulnerability affecting its devices that could be abused to elevate privileges and gain control of affected systems. "A local privilege escalation vulnerability, also known as 'Dirty Pipe,' has been...

Russian APT Hackers Used COVID-19 Lures to Target European Diplomats

The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT29 targeted European diplomatic missions and Ministries of Foreign Affairs as part of a series of spear-phishing campaigns mounted in October and November 2021. According to ESET's T3 2021 Threat Report shared with The Hacker News, the intrusions paved t...

Rethinking Application Security in the API-First Era

Securing applications it the API-first era can be an uphill battle. As development accelerates, accountability becomes unclear, and getting controls to operate becomes a challenge in itself. It's time that we rethink our application security strategies to reflect new priorities, principles and...

Use This Ultimate Template to Plan and Monitor Your Cybersecurity Budgets

Sound security budget planning and execution are essential for CIO's/CISO's success. Now, for the first time, the Ultimate Security Budget Plan and Track Excel template download here provide security executives a clear and intuitive tool to keep track of planned vs. actual spend, ensuring that...

DoorDash Breach Exposes 4.9 Million Users' Personal Data

Do you use DoorDash frequently to order your food online? If yes, you are highly recommended to change your account password right now. DoorDash—the popular on-demand food-delivery service—today confirmed a massive data breach that affects almost 5 million people using its platform, including its...

New malware found using Google Drive as its command-and-control server

Since most security tools also keep an eye on the network traffic to detect malicious IP addresses, attackers are increasingly adopting infrastructure of legitimate services in their attacks to hide their malicious activities. Cybersecurity researchers have now spotted a new malware attack campai...

No.1 Adware Removal Tool On Apple App Store Caught Spying On Mac Users

A highly popular top-tier app in Apple's Mac App Store that's designed to protect its users from adware and malware threats has been, ironically, found surreptitiously stealing their browsing history without their consent, and sending it to a server in China. What's more concerning? Even after...

New Threat: Stealthy HeadCrab Malware Compromised Over 1,200 Redis Servers

At least 1,200 Redis database servers worldwide have been corralled into a botnet using an "elusive and severe threat" dubbed HeadCrab since early September 2021. "This advanced threat actor utilizes a state-of-the-art, custom-made malware that is undetectable by agentless and traditional...

New 'Retbleed' Speculative Execution Attack Affects AMD and Intel CPUs

Security researchers have uncovered yet another vulnerability affecting numerous older AMD and Intel microprocessors that could bypass current defenses and result in Spectre-based speculative-execution attacks. Dubbed Retbleed by ETH Zurich researchers Johannes Wikner and Kaveh Razavi, the issue ...

VMware Releases Patches for New Vulnerabilities Affecting Multiple Products

VMware has issued patches to contain two security flaws impacting Workspace ONE Access, Identity Manager, and vRealize Automation that could be exploited to backdoor enterprise networks. The first of the two flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-22972 CVSS score: 9.8, concerns an authentication bypass that...

Multiple Critical Flaws Discovered in Honeywell Experion PKS and ACE Controllers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday released an advisory regarding multiple security vulnerabilities affecting all versions of Honeywell Experion Process Knowledge System C200, C200E, C300, and ACE controllers that could be exploited to achieve remote code...

Getting Started with Security Testing: A Practical Guide for Startups

A common misconception among startup founders is that cybercriminals won't waste time on them, because they're not big or well known enough yet. But just because you are small doesn't mean you're not in the firing line. The size of a startup does not exempt it from cyber-attacks – that's because...

Critical Cisco Jabber Bug Could Let Attackers Hack Remote Systems

Cisco on Wednesday released software updates to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting its Jabber messaging clients across Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Successful exploitation of the flaws could permit an "attacker to execute arbitrary programs on the underlying operating system with...

Researchers Discover New Ways to Hack WPA3 Protected WiFi Passwords

The same team of cybersecurity researchers who discovered several severe vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed as Dragonblood, in the newly launched WPA3 WiFi security standard few months ago has now uncovered two more flaws that could allow attackers to hack WiFi passwords. WPA, or WiFi Protected...

Millions of PCs Found Running Outdated Versions of Popular Software

It is 2019, and millions of computers still either have at least one outdated application installed or run outdated operating systems, making themselves vulnerable to online threats and known security vulnerabilities/exploits. Security vendor Avast has released its PC Trends Report 2019 revealing...

New iPhone Passcode Bypass Hack Exposes Photos and Contacts

Looking for a hack to bypass the passcode or screen lock on iPhones? Jose Rodriguez, an iPhone enthusiast, has discovered a passcode bypass vulnerability in Apple's new iOS version 12 that potentially allows an attacker to access photos and contacts, including phone numbers and emails, on a locke...

NK Hackers Deploy Browser Exploits on South Korean Sites to Spread Malware

A North Korean threat actor has been discovered taking advantage of two exploits in Internet Explorer to infect victims with a custom implant as part of a strategic web compromise SWC targeting a South Korean online newspaper. Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the watering hole attacks to a...

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...

Warning: Researcher Drops phpMyAdmin Zero-Day Affecting All Versions

A cybersecurity researcher recently published details and proof-of-concept for an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in phpMyAdmin—one of the most popular applications for managing the MySQL and MariaDB databases. phpMyAdmin is a free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB that's...

RunC Flaw Lets Attackers Escape Linux Containers to Gain Root on Hosts

A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in the core runC container code that affects several open-source container management systems, potentially allowing attackers to escape Linux container and obtain unauthorized, root-level access to the host operating system. The vulnerability,...

Hackers Using Zero-Width Spaces to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cybercriminals and email scammers are already being using in the wild to bypass security features of Microsoft Office 365, including Safe Links, which are originally designed to protect users from malware and phishing attacks...

Facebook Finds 'No Evidence' Hackers Accessed Connected Third-Party Apps

When Facebook last weekend disclosed a massive data breach—that compromised access tokens for more than 50 million accounts—many feared that the stolen tokens could have been used to access other third-party services, including Instagram and Tinder, through Facebook login. Good news is that...

Facebook admits public data of its 2.2 billion users has been compromised

Facebook dropped another bombshell on its users by admitting that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume malicious third-party scrapers have compromised their public profile information. On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that "malicious actors" took advantage of "Search" too...

Severe Security Flaw Found in "jsonwebtoken" Library Used by 22,000+ Projects

UPDATE: CVE-2022-23529 Retracted Following Review Auth0 and Unit 42 said they are formally retracting CVE-2022-23529 CVSS score: 7.6 based on the fact that several prerequisites are essential for exploitation. The cybersecurity company said "important security checks" have been added to fix the...

High-Severity Flaws in Juniper Junos OS Affect Enterprise Networking Devices

Multiple high-severity security flaws have been disclosed as affecting Juniper Networks devices, some of which could be exploited to achieve code execution. Chief among them is a remote pre-authenticated PHP archive file deserialization vulnerability CVE-2022-22241, CVSS score: 8.1 in the J-Web...

Google Researcher Reported 3 Flaws in Apache Web Server Software

If your web-server runs on Apache, you should immediately install the latest available version of the server application to prevent hackers from taking unauthorized control over it. Apache recently fixed multiple vulnerabilities in its web server software that could have potentially led to the...

Ivanti Warns of Critical Zero-Day Flaw Being Actively Exploited in Sentry Software

Software services provider Ivanti is warning of a new critical zero-day flaw impacting Ivanti Sentry formerly MobileIron Sentry that it said is being actively exploited in the wild, marking an escalation of its security woes. Tracked as CVE-2023-38035 CVSS score: 9.8, the issue has been described...

CISA Warns of 5 Actively Exploited Security Flaws: Urgent Action Required

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Friday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. This includes three high-severity flaws in the Veritas Backup Exec Agent software...

New UAF Vulnerability Affecting Microsoft Office to be Patched Today

Four security vulnerabilities discovered in the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel and Office online, could be potentially abused by bad actors to deliver attack code via Word and Excel documents. "Rooted from legacy code, the vulnerabilities could have granted an attacker the ability to...

New WhatsApp Bug Could Have Let Hackers Secretly Install Spyware On Your Devices

The recent controversies surrounding the WhatsApp hacking haven't yet settled, and the world's most popular messaging platform could be in the choppy waters once again. The Hacker News has learned that last month WhatsApp quietly patched yet another critical vulnerability in its app that could ha...

SIM Cards in 29 Countries Vulnerable to Remote Simjacker Attacks

Until now, I'm sure you all might have heard of the SimJacker vulnerability disclosed exactly a month ago that affects a wide range of SIM cards and can remotely be exploited to hack into any mobile phone just by sending a specially crafted binary SMS. If you are unaware, the name "SimJacker" has...

More SIM Cards Vulnerable to Simjacker Attack Than Previously Disclosed

In case you missed it. SimJacker vulnerability is concerning because it can be executed: ➡️ against mass audience, ➡️ against devices manufactured by any vendor, ➡️ with just a $10 GSM modem, ➡️ and there's nothing much affected users can do. Details — pic.twitter.com/ByXhMGB0Hl...

Hackers' Operating System Kali Linux Released for Raspberry Pi 4

We've got some really exciting news for you... Offensive Security has released an official version of Kali Linux for Raspberry Pi 4—the most powerful version of the compact computer board yet that was released just two weeks ago with the full 4GB of RAM at low cost and easy accessibility. Based o...

Warning: ASUS Software Update Server Hacked to Distribute Malware

Remember the CCleaner hack? CCleaner hack was one of the largest supply chain attacks that infected more than 2.3 million users with a backdoored version of the software in September 2017. Security researchers today revealed another massive supply chain attack that compromised over 1 million...

New Shamoon Malware Variant Targets Italian Oil and Gas Company

Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia's largest oil producer in 2012 and this time it has targeted energy sector organizations primarily operating in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Italian oil drilling company Saipem was attacked and...

Urgent: New Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild - Update ASAP

Google has rolled out security updates for the Chrome web browser to address a high-severity zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-7024, has been described as a heap-based buffer overflow bug in the WebRTC framework that...

Google Releases Urgent Chrome Update to Patch New Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google on Friday shipped emergency fixes to address a security vulnerability in the Chrome web browser that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-3075, concerns a case of insufficient data validation in Mojo, which refers to a collection of...