Security News > 2023 > March
Some Exchange Online users who have the RPS feature turned off by Microsoft can now have it re-enabled - at least until September when the tool is retired. Microsoft is moving all of its Exchange Online tenants from the legacy - and increasingly insecure - Remote PowerShell Protocol to the PowerShell v3 module.
Attackers are exploiting a critical vulnerability in the IBM Aspera Faspex centralized file transfer solution to breach organizations. IBM Aspera Faspex is used by organizations to allow employees to quickly and securely exchange files with each other.
The war in Ukraine and political tensions around the globe, namely in India, China and Russia, have also impacted the IT outsourcing landscape, the report said. This means that at a time when there's a growing need for IT leaders to look to outsourcing to find talent, "they're also experiencing a decrease in access to some of their top outsourcing locations," the report said.
A group of academics from Northeastern University and KU Leuven has disclosed a fundamental design flaw in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi protocol standard, impacting a wide range of devices running Linux, FreeBSD, Android, and iOS. Successful exploitation of the shortcoming could be abused to hijack TCP connections or intercept client and web traffic, researchers Domien Schepers, Aanjhan Ranganathan, and Mathy Vanhoef said in a paper published this week. Besides manipulating the security context to leak frames from the queue, an attacker can override the client's security context used by an access point to receive packets intended for the victim.
Multi-cloud data storage, once merely a byproduct of the great cloud migration, has now become a strategy for data management. As ransomware attacks continue to rise at a 13% growth rate year over year, surely more cloud storage simply equals more data vulnerability gaps to fill, right? New developments in data technology address these concerns.
Suspected state-sponsored threat actors have trojanized the official Windows desktop app of the widely used 3CX softphone solution, a number of cybersecurity companies began warning on Wednesday. 3CX offers a Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS version of the app, a Chrome extension, and the PWA version so the software can be also used via any browser.
A new "Comprehensive toolset" called AlienFox is being distributed on Telegram as a way for threat actors to harvest credentials from API keys and secrets from popular cloud service providers. "The spread of AlienFox represents an unreported trend towards attacking more minimal cloud services, unsuitable for crypto mining, in order to enable and expand subsequent campaigns," SentinelOne security researcher Alex Delamotte said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
A new modular toolkit called 'AlienFox' allows threat actors to scan for misconfigured servers to steal authentication secrets and credentials for cloud-based email services. Researchers at SentinelLabs who analyzed AlienFox report that the toolset targets common misconfigurations in popular services like online hosting frameworks, such as Laravel, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Opencart, Prestashop, and WordPress.
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3CX said it's working on a software update for its desktop app after multiple cybersecurity vendors sounded the alarm on what appears to be an active supply chain attack that's using digitally signed and rigged installers of the popular voice and video conferencing software to target downstream customers."The trojanized 3CX desktop app is the first stage in a multi-stage attack chain that pulls ICO files appended with Base64 data from GitHub and ultimately leads to a third-stage infostealer DLL," SentinelOne researchers said.