The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 29, 2022

In the report’s findings, stolen credentials and exploited vulnerabilities are the top reasons for web breaches. Exploited vulnerabilities were the second leader at almost 20 percent. Poor password practices are responsible for most incidents involving web applications and data breaches since 2009.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2021

An authentication bypass flaw in the polkit auth system service used on most Linux distros can allow to get a root shell. An authentication bypass vulnerability in the polkit auth system service, tracked as CVE-2021-3560 , which is used on most Linux distros can allow an unprivileged attacker to get a root shell.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

Microsoft found several high-severity vulnerabilities in a mobile framework used in pre-installed Android System apps. The experts pointed out that the vulnerabilities affected apps with millions of downloads, the good news is that the flaws have been fixed. ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 11, 2023

today released software updates to quash 130 security bugs in its Windows operating systems and related software, including at least five flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. “Surprisingly, there is no patch yet for one of the five zero-day vulnerabilities,” said Adam Barnett , lead software engineer at Rapid7.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2021

After the disclosure of Microsoft Exchange zero-days, MS Exchange Server team has released a script to determine if an install is vulnerable. Researchers at the MS Exchange Server team have released a script that could be used by administrators to check if their installs are vulnerable to the recently disclosed vulnerabilities. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2023

CISA has added nine flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, including bugs exploited by commercial spyware on mobile devices. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added nine new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Vietnamese security firm GTSC published a blog post this week warning of a new zero-day remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server, which it said has been actively exploited at least since early August. Microsoft Offers Guidance on Vulnerabilities. respectively. respectively.

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2022

North Korea-linked Lazarus APT is exploiting the Log4J remote code execution (RCE) in attacks aimed at VMware Horizon servers. North Korea-linked group Lazarus is exploiting the Log4J RCE vulnerability ( CVE-2021-44228 ) to compromise VMware Horizon servers. ” reads the analysis published by the experts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2023

An ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware affiliate was spotted exploiting vulnerabilities in the Veritas Backup solution. An affiliate of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang, tracked as UNC4466, was observed exploiting three vulnerabilities in the Veritas Backup solution to gain initial access to the target network. CVSS score: 8.2).

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nation-state cyber threat groups and ransomware attackers are moving in to exploit a critical flaw found in the seemingly ubiquitous Apache Log4j open-source logging tool, as attacks spread just days after the vulnerability that could affect hundreds of millions of devices was made public late last week. Escalation of Exploit Attempts.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

MITRE has released a list of this year’s most hazardous programming, design, and architecture security issues affecting hardware. Vulnerabilities in hardware programming, design, or architecture can all lead to exploitable flaws leaving systems vulnerable to cyberattacks.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2023

UK and US agencies are warning of Russia-linked APT28 group exploiting vulnerabilities in Cisco networking equipment. The joint advisory provides detailed info on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with APT28’s attacks conducted in 2021 that exploited the flaw in Cisco routers. through 12.4 through 15.6

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2022

The number of zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in cyberattacks in the wild exploded in the last years, security firm report. Google and Mandiant have published two reports that highlight a surge in the discovery of zero-day flaws exploited by threat actors in attacks in the wild.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 10, 2022

2021 was a busy year for the cyber security community. Picus has curated a list of the top five threats observed in 2021, detailing ten lessons defenders can learn from them. . Microsoft Exchange Server Vulnerabilities. Details of the vulnerabilities are provided below: CVE Number. Vulnerability Type. CVSS Score.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Earlier this week, Apple announced security patches for various weaknesses in iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS, including a remote jailbreak exploit chain and several critical flaws in the Kernel and Safari web browser. These vulnerabilities were initially revealed in October at the International Cyber Security Contest Tianfu Cup in China.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 15, 2021

Our Real-Time Vulnerability Alerting Engine harnesses public data and applies proprietary data analytics to cut through the noise and get real-time alerts for highly seismic cloud vulnerability exposures and misconfigurations—making vulnerability fatigue a thing of the past. Each blue dot represents a vulnerability.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Google announced on Monday that it will be issuing patches for 11 high severity vulnerabilities found in Chrome, including two that are currently being exploited in the wild. Readers should note that other popular browsers such as Brave and Edge are also Chromium-based and therefore likely to be vulnerable to these flaws too.

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Heimadal Security

JULY 21, 2021

Unprivileged threat actors can obtain root privileges by exploiting a Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) flaw in default configurations of the Linux Kernel’s filesystem layer on exposed devices. The post Linux Kernel Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Acquire Root Privileges on Most Distros appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As with most years, there’s been a wide array of critical vulnerabilities found within content management systems, plugins, API keys, etc. We’ll be recapping our discoveries and how these vulnerabilities were exploited, or potentially could have been. . Adobe Patches Critical Magento Vulnerabilities.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Overview: On December 9th, a vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was released on Twitter along with a POC on Github for the Apache Log4J logging library. The impact of this vulnerability has the potential to be massive due to its effect on any product which has integrated the log4j library into its applications. What is it?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cybercriminals are quickly ramping up efforts to exploit the critical flaw found in the widely used Log4j open-source logging tool, targeting everything from cryptomining to data theft to botnets that target Linux systems. Also read: Cybersecurity ‘Vaccines’ Emerge as Ransomware, Vulnerability Defense. How the Log4j exploit works.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A critical vulnerability in the open-source logging software Apache Log4j 2 is fueling a chaotic race in the cybersecurity world, with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) issuing an emergency security update as bad actors searched for vulnerable servers. release of Log4j 2 that fixes the RCE vulnerability.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

Microsoft this week issued an advisory about three vulnerabilities referred to collectively as ProxyShell days after security researchers at a federal government cybersecurity agency warned that cybercriminals were actively trying to exploit them. The three vulnerabilities are CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523 and CVE-2021-31207.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 23, 2021

A pair of vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel disclosed this week expose major Linux operating systems that could let a hacker either gain root privileges on a compromised host or shut down the entire OS altogether. Further reading: Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2021. Finding Linux Vulnerabilities.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This is part five of our study about the Common Log File System (CLFS) and five vulnerabilities in this Windows OS component that have been used in ransomware attacks throughout the year. To discuss this vulnerability, we need to take a closer look at the CLFS_CONTROL_RECORD structure. It was fixed in February 2023.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Log4j/Log4shell is a remote code execution vulnerability (RCE) in Apache software allowing attackers unauthenticated access into the remote system. The framework is widely used across millions of enterprise applications and therefore a lucrative target for threat actors to exploit. CVE-2021-44228 – Apache Releases Log4j Version 2.15.0

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2021

Cybercriminals using an IP address in China are trying to exploit a vulnerability disclosed earlier this month to deploy a variant of the Mirai malware on network routers affected by the vulnerability, according to researchers with Juniper Threat Labs. The threat is only heightened when it involves IoT devices , they wrote.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2021

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. As a result, we […].

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A critical server security vulnerability in the Java logging library Log4j is taking the internet by storm because code to actively exploit this vulnerability is already widely distributed across the web. It has been actively exploited by threat actors across the web.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 27, 2022

Vulnerabilities in web applications are the leading cause of high-profile breaches. Log4j, a widely publicized zero day vulnerability, was first identified in late 2021, yet security teams are still racing to patch and protect their enterprise apps and services. Related: Log4J’s big lesson.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Most of the APT28s’ campaigns leveraged spear-phishing and malware-based attacks. Recently, UK and US agencies are warned of the APT28 group exploiting vulnerabilities in Cisco networking equipment. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 9, 2021

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. Attackers are using the Exchange bugs to access vulnerable servers before establishing web shells to gain persistence and steal information. A timeline.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2022

VMware fixed critical vulnerabilities in multiple products that could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. The virtualization giant urges its customers to address the critical vulnerability immediately to prevent its exploitation.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 5, 2021

The Microsoft Exchange Zero-day exploit drop this week is a big one for 2021. The actions everyone needs to take when these exploits are being used in the wild is: 1. Is the exchange server vulnerable? Most likely unless you applied the latest out-of-band patches released….

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last Saturday the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an urgent warning that threat actors are actively exploiting three Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities— CVE-2021-34473 , CVE-2021-34523 , and CVE-2021-31207. This set of Exchange vulnerabilities is often grouped under the name ProxyShell.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2022

This vulnerability, dubbed by some as "Springshell " in the community, is a new, previously unknown security vulnerability. . Exclamation Circle icon NOTE : A separate Spring vulnerability CVE-2021-22963 (High) disclosed a few days ago impacts Spring Cloud Function. What is it? This was confirmed by Praetorian.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Log4Shell is a high severity vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) impacting Apache Log4j versions 2.0 It was discovered by Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba Cloud Security Team and disclosed via the project´s GitHub repository on December 9, 2021. in early December 2021. Executive summary. Background. DDoS family Elknot.

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