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2023-01-29 11:17:00 | Gootkit Malware Continues to Evolve with New Components and Obfuscations (lien direct) | The threat actors associated with the Gootkit malware have made "notable changes" to their toolset, adding new components and obfuscations to their infection chains. Google-owned Mandiant is monitoring the activity cluster under the moniker UNC2565, noting that the usage of the malware is "exclusive to this group." Gootkit, also called Gootloader, is spread through compromised websites that | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-28 16:12:00 | Microsoft Urges Customers to Secure On-Premises Exchange Servers (lien direct) | Microsoft is urging customers to keep their Exchange servers updated as well as take steps to bolster the environment, such as enabling Windows Extended Protection and configuring certificate-based signing of PowerShell serialization payloads. "Attackers looking to exploit unpatched Exchange servers are not going to go away," the tech giant's Exchange Team said in a post. "There are too many | ★★★ | ||
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2023-01-28 16:11:00 | Eliminating SaaS Shadow IT is Now Available via a Self-Service Product, Free of Charge (lien direct) | The use of software as a service (SaaS) is experiencing rapid growth and shows no signs of slowing down. Its decentralized and easy-to-use nature is beneficial for increasing employee productivity, but it also poses many security and IT challenges. Keeping track of all the SaaS applications that have been granted access to an organization's data is a difficult task. Understanding the risks that | ★★★ | ||
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2023-01-28 13:25:00 | ISC Releases Security Patches for New BIND DNS Software Vulnerabilities (lien direct) | The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. "A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to potentially cause denial-of-service conditions and system failures," the U.S. Cybersecurity | Guideline | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-28 11:19:00 | Ukraine Hit with New Golang-based \'SwiftSlicer\' Wiper Malware in Latest Cyber Attack (lien direct) | Ukraine has come under a fresh cyber onslaught from Russia that involved the deployment of a previously undocumented Golang-based data wiper dubbed SwiftSlicer. ESET attributed the attack to Sandworm, a nation-state group linked to Military Unit 74455 of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). "Once executed it deletes shadow | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-01-27 19:20:00 | Experts Uncover the Identity of Mastermind Behind Golden Chickens Malware Service (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the real-world identity of the threat actor behind Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service, who goes by the online persona "badbullzvenom." eSentire's Threat Response Unit (TRU), in an exhaustive report published following a 16-month-long investigation, said it "found multiple mentions of the badbullzvenom account being shared between two people." The | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-27 17:23:00 | Researchers Discover New PlugX Malware Variant Spreading via Removable USB Devices (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a PlugX sample that employs sneaky methods to infect attached removable USB media devices in order to propagate the malware to additional systems. "This PlugX variant is wormable and infects USB devices in such a way that it conceals itself from the Windows operating file system," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Mike Harbison and Jen Miller-Osborn | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-27 16:25:00 | 3 Lifehacks While Analyzing Orcus RAT in a Malware Sandbox (lien direct) | Orcus is a Remote Access Trojan with some distinctive characteristics. The RAT allows attackers to create plugins and offers a robust core feature set that makes it quite a dangerous malicious program in its class. RAT is quite a stable type that always makes it to the top. ANY.RUN's top malware types in 2022 That's why you'll definitely come across this type in your practice, and the Orcus | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-27 16:07:00 | British Cyber Agency Warns of Russian and Iranian Hackers Targeting Key Industries (lien direct) | The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) on Thursday warned of spear-phishing attacks mounted by Russian and Iranian state-sponsored actors for information-gathering operations. "The attacks are not aimed at the general public but targets in specified sectors, including academia, defense, government organizations, NGOs, think tanks, as well as politicians, journalists and activists," the | ★★ | ||
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2023-01-26 21:50:00 | Hive Ransomware Infrastructure Seized in Joint International Law Enforcement Effort (lien direct) | The infrastructure associated with the Hive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has been seized as part of a coordinated law enforcement effort involving 13 countries. "Law enforcement identified the decryption keys and shared them with many of the victims, helping them regain access to their data without paying the cybercriminals," Europol said in a statement. The U.S. Department of | Ransomware | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-26 21:36:00 | Google Takes Down 50,000 Instances of Pro-Chinese DRAGONBRIDGE Influence Operation (lien direct) | Google on Thursday disclosed it took steps to dismantle over 50,000 instances of activity orchestrated by a pro-Chinese influence operation known as DRAGONBRIDGE in 2022. "Most DRAGONBRIDGE activity is low quality content without a political message, populated across many channels and blogs," the company's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "However, a | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-26 20:22:00 | Researchers Release PoC Exploit for Windows CryptoAPI Bug Discovered by NSA (lien direct) | Proof-of-concept (Poc) code has been released for a now-patched high-severity security flaw in the Windows CryptoAPI that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) reported to Microsoft last year. Tracked as CVE-2022-34689 (CVSS score: 7.5), the spoofing vulnerability was addressed by the tech giant as part of Patch Tuesday updates released in | Vulnerability | ★★ | |
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2023-01-26 20:04:00 | Researchers Uncover Connection b/w Moses Staff and Emerging Abraham\'s Ax Hacktivists Group (lien direct) | New research has linked the operations of a politically motivated hacktivist group known as Moses Staff to another nascent threat actor named Abraham's Ax that emerged in November 2022. This is based on "several commonalities across the iconography, videography, and leak sites used by the groups, suggesting they are likely operated by the same entity," Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) said | Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-26 19:51:00 | Is Once-Yearly Pen Testing Enough for Your Organization? (lien direct) | Any organization that handles sensitive data must be diligent in its security efforts, which include regular pen testing. Even a small data breach can result in significant damage to an organization's reputation and bottom line. There are two main reasons why regular pen testing is necessary for secure web application development: Security: Web applications are constantly evolving, and new | Data Breach | ★★ | |
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2023-01-26 11:31:00 | PY#RATION: New Python-based RAT Uses WebSocket for C2 and Data Exfiltration (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new Python-based attack campaign that leverages a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT) to gain control over compromised systems since at least August 2022. "This malware is unique in its utilization of WebSockets to avoid detection and for both command-and-control (C2) communication and exfiltration," Securonix said in a report shared with The Hacker | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-01-26 09:57:00 | U.S. Federal Agencies Fall Victim to Cyber Attack Utilizing Legitimate RMM Software (lien direct) | At least two federal agencies in the U.S. fell victim to a "widespread cyber campaign" that involved the use of legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software to perpetuate a phishing scam. "Specifically, cyber criminal actors sent phishing emails that led to the download of legitimate RMM software – ScreenConnect (now ConnectWise Control) and AnyDesk – which the actors used in a | ★★ | ||
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2023-01-25 21:41:00 | Over 4,500 WordPress Sites Hacked to Redirect Visitors to Sketchy Ad Pages (lien direct) | A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named "track[.]violetlovelines[.]com" that's designed to redirect visitors to unwanted sites. The latest operation is | ★★ | ||
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2023-01-25 18:30:00 | The Definitive Browser Security Checklist (lien direct) | Security stakeholders have come to realize that the prominent role the browser has in the modern corporate environment requires a re-evaluation of how it is managed and protected. While not long-ago web-borne risks were still addressed by a patchwork of endpoint, network, and cloud solutions, it is now clear that the partial protection these solutions provided is no longer sufficient. Therefore, | ★★★★ | ||
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2023-01-25 16:11:00 | North Korean Hackers Turn to Credential Harvesting in Latest Wave of Cyberattacks (lien direct) | A North Korean nation-state group notorious for crypto heists has been attributed to a new wave of malicious email attacks as part of a "sprawling" credential harvesting activity targeting a number of industry verticals, marking a significant shift in its strategy. The state-aligned threat actor is being tracked by Proofpoint under the name TA444, and by the larger cybersecurity community as | Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-25 13:13:00 | LastPass Parent Company GoTo Suffers Data Breach, Customers\' Backups Compromised (lien direct) | LastPass-owner GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) on Tuesday disclosed that unidentified threat actors were able to steal encrypted backups of some customers' data along with an encryption key for some of those backups in a November 2022 incident. The breach, which targeted a third-party cloud storage service, impacted Central, Pro, join.me, Hamachi, and RemotelyAnywhere products, the company said. "The | Threat | LastPass | ★★ |
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2023-01-25 12:37:00 | VMware Releases Patches for Critical vRealize Log Insight Software Vulnerabilities (lien direct) | VMware on Tuesday released software to remediate four security vulnerabilities affecting vRealize Log Insight (aka Aria Operations for Logs) that could expose users to remote code execution attacks. Two of the flaws are critical, carrying a severity rating of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10, the virtualization services provider noted in its first security bulletin for 2023. Tracked as CVE-2022-31706 | ★ | ||
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2023-01-24 20:07:00 | Chinese Hackers Utilize Golang Malware in DragonSpark Attacks to Evade Detection (lien direct) | Organizations in East Asia are being targeted by a likely Chinese-speaking actor dubbed DragonSpark while employing uncommon tactics to go past security layers. "The attacks are characterized by the use of the little known open source SparkRAT and malware that attempts to evade detection through Golang source code interpretation," SentinelOne said in an analysis published today. A striking | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-01-24 17:28:00 | FBI Says North Korean Hackers Behind $100 Million Horizon Bridge Crypto Theft (lien direct) | The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday confirmed that North Korean threat actors were responsible for the theft of $100 million in cryptocurrency assets from Harmony Horizon Bridge in June 2022. The law enforcement agency attributed the hack to the Lazarus Group and APT38, the latter of which is a North Korean state-sponsored threat group that specializes in financial cyber | Hack Threat Medical | APT 38 | ★★ |
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2023-01-24 17:03:00 | Security Navigator Research: Some Vulnerabilities Date Back to the Last Millennium (lien direct) | Vulnerability analysis results in Orange Cyberdefenses' Security Navigator show that some vulnerabilities first discovered in 1999 are still found in networks today. This is concerning. Age of VOC findings Our Vulnerability Scans are performed on a recurring basis, which provides us the opportunity to examine the difference between when a scan was performed on an Asset, and when a given finding | Vulnerability | ★★ | |
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2023-01-24 16:33:00 | Emotet Malware Makes a Comeback with New Evasion Techniques (lien direct) | The Emotet malware operation has continued to refine its tactics in an effort to fly under the radar, while also acting as a conduit for other dangerous malware such as Bumblebee and IcedID. Emotet, which officially reemerged in late 2021 following a coordinated takedown of its infrastructure by authorities earlier that year, has continued to be a persistent threat that's distributed via | Malware Threat | ★★★★ | |
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2023-01-24 14:51:00 | Apple Issues Updates for Older Devices to Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability (lien direct) | Apple has backported fixes for a recently disclosed critical security flaw affecting older devices, citing evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-42856, is a type confusion vulnerability in the WebKit browser engine that could result in arbitrary code execution when processing maliciously crafted web content. While it was originally addressed by the company on November | Vulnerability | ★★★★ | |
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2023-01-24 11:14:00 | Facebook Introduces New Features for End-to-End Encrypted Messenger App (lien direct) | Meta Platforms on Monday announced that it has started to expand global testing of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger chats by default. "Over the next few months, more people will continue to see some of their chats gradually being upgraded with an extra layer of protection provided by end-to-end encryption," Meta's Melissa Miranda said. The social media behemoth said it intends to notify | ★★ | ||
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2023-01-23 17:31:00 | Samsung Galaxy Store App Found Vulnerable to Sneaky App Installs and Fraud (lien direct) | Two security flaws have been disclosed in Samsung's Galaxy Store app for Android that could be exploited by a local attacker to stealthily install arbitrary apps or direct prospective victims to fraudulent landing pages on the web. The issues, tracked as CVE-2023-21433 and CVE-2023-21434, were discovered by NCC Group and notified to the South Korean chaebol in November and December 2022. Samsung | ★★★ | ||
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2023-01-23 17:09:00 | SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) as a Layer in Your Identity Fabric (lien direct) | The move to SaaS and other cloud tools has put an emphasis on Identity & Access Management (IAM). After all, user identity is one of the only barriers standing between sensitive corporate data and any unauthorized access. The tools used to define IAM make up its identity fabric. The stronger the fabric, the more resistant identities are to pressure from threat actors. However, those pressures | Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-23 15:24:00 | Threat Actors Turn to Sliver as Open Source Alternative to Popular C2 Frameworks (lien direct) | The legitimate command-and-control (C2) framework known as Sliver is gaining more traction from threat actors as it emerges as an open source alternative to Cobalt Strike and Metasploit. The findings come from Cybereason, which detailed its inner workings in an exhaustive analysis last week. Sliver, developed by cybersecurity company BishopFox, is a Golang-based cross-platform post-exploitation | Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-23 12:05:00 | Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Targeted Over 11 Million Devices with 1,700 Spoofed Apps (lien direct) | Researchers have shut down an "expansive" ad fraud scheme that spoofed more than 1,700 applications from 120 publishers and impacted roughly 11 million devices. "VASTFLUX was a malvertising attack that injected malicious JavaScript code into digital ad creatives, allowing the fraudsters to stack numerous invisible video ad players behind one another and register ad views," fraud prevention firm | ★★ | ||
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2023-01-20 22:03:00 | Roaming Mantis Spreading Mobile Malware That Hijacks Wi-Fi Routers\' DNS Settings (lien direct) | Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers located in South Korea. | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-20 19:05:00 | Gamaredon Group Launches Cyberattacks Against Ukraine Using Telegram (lien direct) | The Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital onslaught against Ukraine, with recent attacks leveraging the popular messaging app Telegram to strike military and law enforcement sectors in the country. "The Gamaredon group's network infrastructure relies on multi-stage Telegram accounts for victim profiling and confirmation of geographic location, | ★★ | ||
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2023-01-20 18:27:00 | WhatsApp Hit with €5.5 Million Fine for Violating Data Protection Laws (lien direct) | The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Thursday imposed fresh fines of €5.5 million against Meta's WhatsApp for violating data protection laws when processing users' personal information. At the heart of the ruling is an update to the messaging platform's Terms of Service that was enforced in the days leading to the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018, | Guideline | ★ | |
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2023-01-20 12:29:00 | New Chinese Malware Spotted Exploiting Recent Fortinet Firewall Vulnerability (lien direct) | A suspected China-nexus threat actor exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN as a zero-day in attacks targeting a European government entity and a managed service provider (MSP) located in Africa. Telemetry evidence gathered by Google-owned Mandiant indicates that the exploitation occurred as early as October 2022, at least nearly two months before fixes were | Malware Vulnerability Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-01-19 19:50:00 | New Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Uncovered - Experts Warn of RCE Attacks (lien direct) | A new critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw discovered impacting multiple services related to Microsoft Azure could be exploited by a malicious actor to completely take control of a targeted application. "The vulnerability is achieved through CSRF (cross-site request forgery) on the ubiquitous SCM service Kudu," Ermetic researcher Liv Matan said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "By | Vulnerability | ★★★★★ | |
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2023-01-19 18:57:00 | Android Users Beware: New Hook Malware with RAT Capabilities Emerges (lien direct) | The threat actor behind the BlackRock and ERMAC Android banking trojans has unleashed yet another malware for rent called Hook that introduces new capabilities to access files stored in the devices and create a remote interactive session. ThreatFabric, in a report shared with The Hacker News, characterized Hook as a novel ERMAC fork that's advertised for sale for $7,000 per month while featuring | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-19 18:31:00 | New Research Delves into the World of Malicious LNK Files and Hackers Behind Them (lien direct) | Cybercriminals are increasingly leveraging malicious LNK files as an initial access method to download and execute payloads such as Bumblebee, IcedID, and Qakbot. A recent study by cybersecurity experts has shown that it is possible to identify relationships between different threat actors by analyzing the metadata of malicious LNK files, uncovering information such as the specific tools and | Threat | ★★★★ | |
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2023-01-19 17:34:00 | 6 Types of Risk Assessment Methodologies + How to Choose (lien direct) | An organization's sensitive information is under constant threat. Identifying those security risks is critical to protecting that information. But some risks are bigger than others. Some mitigation options are more expensive than others. How do you make the right decision? Adopting a formal risk assessment process gives you the information you need to set priorities. There are many ways to | ★★★★ | ||
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2023-01-19 16:13:00 | Bitzlato Crypto Exchange Founder Arrested for Aiding Cybercriminals (lien direct) | The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the arrest of Anatoly Legkodymov (aka Gandalf and Tolik), the cofounder of Hong Kong-registered cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato for allegedly processing $700 million in illicit funds. The 40-year-old Russian national, who was arrested in Miami, was charged in a U.S. federal court with "conducting a money transmitting business that | ★★ | ||
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2023-01-19 11:03:00 | Mailchimp Suffers Another Security Breach Compromising Some Customers\' Information (lien direct) | Popular email marketing and newsletter service Mailchimp has disclosed yet another security breach that enabled threat actors to access an internal support and account admin tool to obtain information about 133 customers. "The unauthorized actor conducted a social engineering attack on Mailchimp employees and contractors, and obtained access to select Mailchimp accounts using employee | Tool Threat | ★ | |
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2023-01-18 22:54:00 | Earth Bogle Campaign Unleashes NjRAT Trojan on Middle East and North Africa (lien direct) | An ongoing campaign dubbed Earth Bogle is leveraging geopolitical-themed lures to deliver the NjRAT remote access trojan to victims across the Middle East and North Africa. "The threat actor uses public cloud storage services such as files[.]fm and failiem[.]lv to host malware, while compromised web servers distribute NjRAT," Trend Micro said in a report published Wednesday. Phishing emails, | Threat Prediction | ★★ | |
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2023-01-18 16:35:00 | Iranian Government Entities Under Attack by New Wave of BackdoorDiplomacy Attacks (lien direct) | The threat actor known as BackdoorDiplomacy has been linked to a new wave of attacks targeting Iranian government entities between July and late December 2022. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which is tracking the activity under its constellation-themed moniker Playful Taurus, said it observed the government domains attempting to connect to malware infrastructure previously identified as associated | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-18 16:02:00 | Guide: How MSSPs and vCISOs can extend their services into compliance readiness without increasing cost (lien direct) | Compliance services are emerging as one of the hottest areas of cybersecurity. While compliance used to be mainly the province of large enterprises, times have changed, and it is now a day-to-day concern for a growing number of small and medium businesses. Even when these organizations are not regulated, SMEs often aim to follow compliance and/or security frameworks either for their own risk | ★ | ||
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2023-01-18 15:50:00 | Critical Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in Netcomm and TP-Link Routers (lien direct) | Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Netcomm and TP-Link routers, some of which could be weaponized to achieve remote code execution. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-4873 and CVE-2022-4874, concern a case of stack-based buffer overflow and authentication bypass and impact Netcomm router models NF20MESH, NF20, and NL1902 running software versions earlier than R6B035. "The two | ★★ | ||
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2023-01-18 14:58:00 | Git Users Urged to Update Software to Prevent Remote Code Execution Attacks (lien direct) | The maintainers of the Git source code version control system have released updates to remediate two critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by a malicious actor to achieve remote code execution. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-23521 and CVE-2022-41903, impacts the following versions of Git: v2.30.6, v2.31.5, v2.32.4, v2.33.5, v2.34.5, v2.35.5, v2.36.3, v2.37.4, v2.38.2, and v2.39.0. | ★★ | ||
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2023-01-18 11:26:00 | CISA Warns of Flaws in Siemens, GE Digital, and Contec Industrial Control Systems (lien direct) | The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published four Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories, calling out several security flaws affecting products from Siemens, GE Digital, and Contec. The most critical of the issues have been identified in Siemens SINEC INS that could lead to remote code execution via a path traversal flaw (CVE-2022-45092, CVSS score: 9.9) | Guideline Industrial | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-17 19:42:00 | Microsoft Azure Services Flaws Could\'ve Exposed Cloud Resources to Unauthorized Access (lien direct) | Four different Microsoft Azure services have been found vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. The security issues, which were discovered by Orca between October 8, 2022 and December 2, 2022 in Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Digital Twins, have since been addressed | ★★★ | ||
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2023-01-17 18:15:00 | Hackers Can Abuse Legitimate GitHub Codespaces Feature to Deliver Malware (lien direct) | New research has found that it is possible for threat actors to abuse a legitimate feature in GitHub Codespaces to deliver malware to victim systems. GitHub Codespaces is a cloud-based configurable development environment that allows users to debug, maintain, and commit changes to a given codebase from a web browser or via an integration in Visual Studio Code. It also comes with a port | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-01-17 16:37:00 | 4 Places to Supercharge Your SOC with Automation (lien direct) | It's no secret that the job of SOC teams continues to become increasingly difficult. Increased volume and sophistication of attacks are plaguing under-resourced teams with false positives and analyst burnout. However, like many other industries, cybersecurity is now beginning to lean on and benefit from advancements in automation to not only maintain the status quo, but to attain better security | ★★★★ |
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