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Today, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency announced a new pilot program to help critical infrastructure entities protect their information systems from ransomware attacks. "Recognizing the persistent threat posed by ransomware attacks to organizations of all sizes, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announces today the establishment of the Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot," the cybersecurity agency said.

In brief Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's director Jen Easterly has been outspoken in her drive to bring more women into the security industry, and this year for International Women's Day her agency formalized that pledge by announcing a partnership with nonprofit Women in CyberSecurity. The US department of Homeland Security agency and WiCyS signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday to help raise awareness of job opportunities for women in cybersecurity and build "a pipeline for the next generation of women" able to fill those roles, the agency said.

CISA has added an almost three-year-old high-severity remote code execution vulnerability in the Plex Media Server to its catalog of security flaws exploited in attacks. Attackers with "Admin access to a Plex Media Server could abuse the Camera Upload feature to make the server execute malicious code," according to an advisory published by the Plex Security Team in May 2020 when it patched the bug with the release of Plex Media Server 1.19.3.

CISA has added a critical severity vulnerability in VMware's Cloud Foundation to its catalog of security flaws exploited in the wild. The flaw was found in the XStream open-source library used by vulnerable VMware products and has been assigned an almost maximum severity score of 9.8/10 by VMware.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The most critical of the three is CVE-2022-35914, which concerns a remote code execution vulnerability in the third-party library htmlawed present in Teclib GLPI, an open source asset and IT management software package.

CISA and the FBI have issued a joint advisory highlighting the increasing threat behind ongoing Royal ransomware attacks targeting many U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including healthcare, communications, and education. In response, the FBI and CISA shared indicators of compromise and a list of tactics, techniques, and procedures linked, which would help defenders detect and block attempts to deploy Royal ransomware payloads on their networks.

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has released 'Decider,' an open-source tool that helps defenders and security analysts quickly generate MITRE ATT&CK mapping reports.CISA recently published a "Best practices" guide about MITRE ATT&CK mapping, highlighting the importance of using the standard.

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency has added CVE-2022-36537 to its "Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog" after threat actors began actively exploiting the remote code execution flaw in attacks. CVE-2022-36537 is a high-severity flaw impacting the ZK Framework versions 9.6.1, 9.6.0.1, 9.5.1.3, 9.0.1.2 and 8.6.4.1, enabling attackers to access sensitive information by sending a specially crafted POST request to the AuUploader component.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a high-severity flaw affecting the ZK Framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2022-36537, the issue impacts ZK Framework versions 9.6.1, 9.6.0.1, 9.5.1.3, 9.0.1.2, and 8.6.4.1, and allows threat actors to retrieve sensitive information via specially crafted requests.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is urging organizations and individuals to increase their cyber vigilance, as Russia's military invasion of Ukraine officially enters one year. "CISA assesses that the United States and European nations may experience disruptive and defacement attacks against websites in an attempt to sow chaos and societal discord on February 24, 2023, the anniversary of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine," the agency said.