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Microsoft has revoked several Microsoft hardware developer accounts after drivers signed through their profiles were used in cyberattacks, including ransomware incidents. "Microsoft was informed that drivers certified by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Developer Program were being used maliciously in post-exploitation activity. In these attacks, the attacker had already gained administrative privileges on compromised systems prior to use of the drivers," explains the advisory from Microsoft.

The Department of Finance in California has been the target of a cyberattack now claimed by the LockBit ransomware gang. California Governor's Office of Emergency Services has confirmed that the Department of Finance has been affected by a cyber incident but did not provide too many details.

In security updates released today, Apple has fixed the tenth zero-day vulnerability since the start of the year, with this latest one actively used in attacks against iPhones.The vulnerability was disclosed in security bulletins released today for iOS/iPadOS 15.7.2, Safari 16.2, tvOS 16.2, and macOS Ventura 13.1, with Apple warning that the flaw "May have been actively exploited" against previous versions.

Citrix is strongly urging admins to apply security updates for an actively exploited 'Critical' zero-day vulnerability in Citrix ADC and Gateway that allows a remote attacker to take control of a device. Citrix is warning admins to install the latest update "As soon as possible" as the vulnerability is actively exploited in attacks.

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public Gallery that could have been potentially exploited to stage a multitude of attacks, according to cloud security firm Lightspin. "By exploiting this vulnerability, a malicious actor could delete all images in the Amazon ECR Public Gallery or update the image contents to inject malicious code," Gafnit Amiga, director of security research at Lightspin, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

The Play ransomware operation has claimed responsibility for a recent cyberattack on the Belgium city of Antwerp. Last week, Digipolis, the IT company responsible for managing Antwerp's IT systems, suffered a ransomware attack that disrupted the city's IT, email, and phone services.

Uber has suffered a new data breach after a threat actor leaked employee email addresses, corporate reports, and IT asset information stolen from a third-party vendor in a cybersecurity incident. Early Saturday morning, a threat actor named 'UberLeaks' began leaking data allegedly stolen from Uber and Uber Eats on a hacking forum known for publishing data breaches.

Fortinet urges customers to patch their appliances against an actively exploited FortiOS SSL-VPN vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on devices."A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability [CWE-122] in FortiOS SSL-VPN may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or commands via specifically crafted requests," warns Fortinet in a security advisory released today.

When organizations are armed with intelligence that's timely, relevant, and actionable, they can bolster their own cyber defense measures and even prevent a ransomware attack from occurring in the first place. One of the most effective ways to stop a ransomware attack is to deny them access in the first place; without access, there is no attack.

A new attack method can be used to circumvent web application firewalls of various vendors and infiltrate systems, potentially enabling attackers to gain access to sensitive business and customer information. Web application firewalls are a key line of defense to help filter, monitor, and block HTTP(S) traffic to and from a web application, and safeguard against attacks such as cross-site forgery, cross-site-scripting, file inclusion, and SQL injection.