May 06, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Server Security More than 50% of the 90,310 hosts have been found exposing a Tinyproxy service on the internet that's vulnerable to a critical unpatched security flaw in the HTTP/HTTPS proxy tool. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-49606, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10, per Cisco Talos, which described it as a use-after-free … [Read more...] about Critical Tinyproxy Flaw Opens Over 50,000 Hosts to Remote Code Execution
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Microsoft Outlook Flaw Exploited by Russia’s APT28 to Hack Czech, German Entities
Czechia and Germany on Friday revealed that they were the target of a long-term cyber espionage campaign conducted by the Russia-linked nation-state actor known as APT28, drawing condemnation from the European Union (E.U.), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the U.K., and the U.S. The Czech Republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), in a statement, said some … [Read more...] about Microsoft Outlook Flaw Exploited by Russia’s APT28 to Hack Czech, German Entities
Popular Android Apps Like Xiaomi, WPS Office Vulnerable to File Overwrite Flaw
May 02, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Android Several popular Android applications available in Google Play Store are susceptible to a path traversal-affiliated vulnerability that could be exploited by a malicious app to overwrite arbitrary files in the vulnerable app's home directory. "The implications of this vulnerability pattern include arbitrary code execution and token … [Read more...] about Popular Android Apps Like Xiaomi, WPS Office Vulnerable to File Overwrite Flaw
Ukraine Targeted in Cyberattack Exploiting 7-Year-Old Microsoft Office Flaw
Apr 27, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The attack chain, which took place at the end of 2023 according to Deep Instinct, employs a PowerPoint slideshow file … [Read more...] about Ukraine Targeted in Cyberattack Exploiting 7-Year-Old Microsoft Office Flaw
Palo Alto Networks Discloses More Details on Critical PAN-OS Flaw Under Attack
Apr 20, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Network Security Palo Alto Networks has shared more details of a critical security flaw impacting PAN-OS that has come under active exploitation in the wild by malicious actors. The company described the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score: 10.0), as "intricate" and a combination of two bugs in versions PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS … [Read more...] about Palo Alto Networks Discloses More Details on Critical PAN-OS Flaw Under Attack
Chinese Hackers Silently Weaponized VMware Zero-Day Flaw for 2 Years
Jan 20, 2024NewsroomZero Day / Cyber Espionage An advanced China-nexus cyber espionage group previously linked to the exploitation of security flaws in VMware and Fortinet appliances has been linked to the abuse of a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server as a zero-day since late 2021. "UNC3886 has a track record of utilizing zero-day vulnerabilities to complete … [Read more...] about Chinese Hackers Silently Weaponized VMware Zero-Day Flaw for 2 Years
TensorFlow CI/CD Flaw Exposed Supply Chain to Poisoning Attacks
Jan 18, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain Attacks / AI Security Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) misconfigurations discovered in the open-source TensorFlow machine learning framework could have been exploited to orchestrate supply chain attacks. The misconfigurations could be abused by an attacker to "conduct a supply chain compromise of TensorFlow releases on … [Read more...] about TensorFlow CI/CD Flaw Exposed Supply Chain to Poisoning Attacks
PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions
Jan 17, 2024NewsroomFinancial Data / Vulnerability The point-of-sale (PoS) terminals from PAX Technology are impacted by a collection of high-severity vulnerabilities that can be weaponized by threat actors to execute arbitrary code. The STM Cyber R&D team, which reverse engineered the Android-based devices manufactured by the Chinese firm owing to their rapid deployment … [Read more...] about PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions
Google Cloud Resolves Privilege Escalation Flaw Impacting Kubernetes Service
Dec 28, 2023NewsroomCloud Security / Data Protection Google Cloud has addressed a medium-severity security flaw in its platform that could be abused by an attacker who already has access to a Kubernetes cluster to escalate their privileges. "An attacker who has compromised the Fluent Bit logging container could combine that access with high privileges required by Anthos … [Read more...] about Google Cloud Resolves Privilege Escalation Flaw Impacting Kubernetes Service
New Bluetooth Flaw Let Hackers Take Over Android, Linux, macOS, and iOS Devices
Dec 07, 2023The Hacker NewsMobile Security / Vulnerability A critical Bluetooth security flaw could be exploited by threat actors to take control of Android, Linux, macOS and iOS devices. Tracked as CVE-2023-45866, the issue relates to a case of authentication bypass that enables attackers to connect to susceptible devices and inject keystrokes to achieve code execution as … [Read more...] about New Bluetooth Flaw Let Hackers Take Over Android, Linux, macOS, and iOS Devices