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Ivanti warns of new Connect Secure zero-day exploited in attacks
2024-01-31 13:41

Today, Ivanti warned of two more vulnerabilities impacting Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateways, one of them a zero-day bug already under active exploitation. "As part of our ongoing investigation into the vulnerabilities reported on 10 January in Ivanti Connect Secure, Ivanti Policy Secure and ZTA gateways, we have discovered new vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities impact all supported versions - Version 9.x and 22.x," the company said today.

Alert: Ivanti Discloses 2 New Zero-Day Flaws, One Under Active Exploitation
2024-01-31 13:38

Ivanti is alerting of two new high-severity flaws in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, one of which is said to have come under targeted exploitation in the wild. The list of...

Telegram Marketplaces Fuel Phishing Attacks with Easy-to-Use Kits and Malware
2024-01-31 12:21

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to the "democratization" of the phishing ecosystem owing to the emergence of Telegram as an epicenter for cybercrime, enabling threat actors to...

CFPB’s Proposed Data Rules
2024-01-31 12:04

In October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a set of rules that if implemented would transform how financial institutions handle personal data about their customers. The rules put control of that data back in the hands of ordinary Americans, while at the same time undermining the data broker economy and increasing customer choice and competition.

The SEC Won't Let CISOs Be: Understanding New SaaS Cybersecurity Rules
2024-01-31 11:02

The SEC isn’t giving SaaS a free pass. Applicable public companies, known as “registrants,” are now subject to cyber incident disclosure and cybersecurity readiness requirements for data stored in...

Italian Businesses Hit by Weaponized USBs Spreading Cryptojacking Malware
2024-01-31 11:00

A financially motivated threat actor known as UNC4990 is leveraging weaponized USB devices as an initial infection vector to target organizations in Italy. Google-owned Mandiant said the attacks...

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2024-01-31 10:45

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Free ransomware recovery tool White Phoenix now has a web version
2024-01-31 08:06

White Phoenix is a free ransomware recovery tool for situations where files are encrypted with intermittent encryption. Intermittent encryption occurs when ransomware chooses not to encrypt every part of each file but instead encrypts sections, frequently in blocks of a set size or just the start of the targeted files.

Hackers Exploiting Ivanti VPN Flaws to Deploy KrustyLoader Malware
2024-01-31 07:23

A pair of recently disclosed zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) virtual private network (VPN) devices have been exploited to deliver a Rust-based payload called KrustyLoader that's used...

Does CVSS 4.0 solve the exploitability problem?
2024-01-31 06:00

The newest version of the vulnerability scoring system CVSS 4.0 is here! After a lengthy gap between version 3, as of November 2023 version 4.0 is officially live. Version 3.0 and CVSS in general, while being quite good at measuring the "Impact" of a vulnerability, wasn't very good at scoring its "Exploitability".