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Week in review: F5 BIG-IP RCE exploitation, URL spoofing flaws in Zoom, Google Docs
2022-05-15 08:30

Researchers uncover URL spoofing flaws on Zoom, Box, Google DocsResearchers have discovered several URL spoofing bugs in Box, Zoom and Google Docs that would allow phishers to generate links to malicious content and make it look like it's hosted by an organization's SaaS account. A 10-point plan to improve the security of open source softwareThe Linux Foundation and the Open Source Software Security Foundation, with input provided by executives from 37 companies and many U.S. government leaders, delivered a 10-point plan to broadly address open source and software supply chain security, by securing open source security production, improving vulnerability discovery and remediation, and shortening the patching response time of the ecosystem.

CISA Urges Organizations to Patch Actively Exploited F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability
2022-05-12 06:47

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the recently disclosed F5 BIG-IP flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog following reports of active abuse in the wild. "An attacker can use this vulnerability to do just about anything they want to on the vulnerable server," Horizon3.

CISA tells federal agencies to fix actively exploited F5 BIG-IP bug
2022-05-11 14:35

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a new security vulnerability to its list of actively exploited bugs, the critical severity CVE-2022-1388 affecting BIG-IP network devices. After info F5 BIG-IP exploits used in attacks to brick devices surfaced, CISA added the flaw to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

Critical F5 BIG-IP vulnerability exploited to wipe devices
2022-05-10 22:50

A recently disclosed F5 BIG-IP vulnerability has been used in destructive attacks, attempting to erase a device's file system and make the server unusable. Last week, F5 disclosed a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388 that allows remote attackers to execute commands on BIG-IP network devices as 'root' without authentication.

Critical F5 BIG-IP vulnerability targeted by destructive attacks
2022-05-10 22:50

A recently disclosed F5 BIG-IP vulnerability has been used in destructive attacks, attempting to erase a device's file system and make the server unusable. Last week, F5 disclosed a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388 that allows remote attackers to execute commands on BIG-IP network devices as 'root' without authentication.

Hackers Actively Exploit F5 BIG-IP Bug
2022-05-10 12:35

Threat actors have started exploiting a critical bug in the application service provider F5's BIG-IP modules after a working exploit of the vulnerability was publicly made available. A shodan query shared by security researcher Jacob Baines revealed thousands of exposed BIG-IP systems on the internet, which an attacker can leverage to exploit remotely.

Researchers Develop RCE Exploit for the Latest F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability
2022-05-09 22:05

Days after F5 released patches for a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting its BIG-IP family of products, security researchers are warning that they were able to create an exploit for the shortcoming. The critical security vulnerability impacts the following versions of BIG-IP products -.

Hackers exploiting critical F5 BIG-IP bug, public exploits released
2022-05-09 15:20

Threat actors have started massively exploiting the critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388, which affects multiple versions of all F5 BIG-IP modules, to drop malicious payloads. F5 last week released patches for the security issue, which affects the BIG-IP iControl REST authentication component.

Hackers exploiting critical F5 BIG-IP flaw to drop backdoors
2022-05-09 15:20

Threat actors have started massively exploiting the critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-1388, which affects multiple versions of all F5 BIG-IP modules, to drop malicious payloads. F5 last week released patches for the security issue, which affects the BIG-IP iControl REST authentication component.

Attackers are attempting to exploit critical F5 BIG-IP RCE
2022-05-09 07:28

Researchers have developed PoC exploits for CVE-2022-1388, a critical remote code execution bug affecting F5 BIG-IP multi-purpose networking devices/modules. We have reproduced the fresh CVE-2022-1388 in F5's BIG-IP. Successful exploitation could lead to RCE from an unauthenticated user.