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China's cyber-ops against the US have shifted from espionage activities to targeting infrastructure and societal disruption, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly told an Aspen Institute event on Monday. "PRC actors have been in the spotlight for years and years, the key difference here was for PRC actors the focus has been espionage," said [VIDEO] Easterly.

CISA has added an actively exploited security bug in the Progress MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer solution to its list of known exploited vulnerabilities, ordering U.S. federal agencies to patch their systems by June 23. The critical flaw is an SQL injection vulnerability that enables unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain access to MOVEit Transfer's database and execute arbitrary code.

CISA warned of a recently patched zero-day vulnerability exploited last week to hack into Barracuda Email Security Gateway appliances. Federal Civilian Executive Branch Agencies agencies must patch or mitigate the vulnerability as ordered by the BOD 22-01 binding operational directive.

In response to these risks, the US government reinforced critical infrastructure security by introducing Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals mandated by the US Cybersecurity Infrastructure & Security Agency. Recently, CISA updated the CPGs to align with NIST's standard cybersecurity framework, establishing each of the five goals as a prioritized subset of IT and OT cybersecurity practices.

Today, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency ordered federal agencies to address three recently patched zero-day flaws affecting iPhones, Macs, and iPads known to be exploited in attacks. iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone SE, iPad Air 2, iPad mini, iPod touch, and iPhone 8 and later.

CISA warned today of a security vulnerability affecting Samsung devices used in attacks to bypass Android address space layout randomization protection. The exposed info can be used by local attackers with high privileges to conduct an ASLR bypass which could enable the exploitation of memory-management issues.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned today of a critical remote code execution flaw in the Ruckus Wireless Admin panel actively exploited by a recently discovered DDoS botnet. While this security bug was addressed in early February, many owners are likely yet to patch their Wi-Fi access points.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday released an Industrial Control Systems advisory about a critical flaw affecting ME RTU remote terminal units. The security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2131, has received the highest severity rating of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system for its low attack complexity.

The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is adding three more flaws to its list of known-exploited vulnerabilities, including one involving TP-Link routers that is being targeted by the operators of the notorious Mirai botnet. Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative threat-hunting group early last week wrote in a report that in mid-April miscreants behind the please-can't-it-just-die Mirai botnet were beginning to exploit the flaw primarily by attacking devices in Eastern Europe, though the campaign soon expanded beyond that region.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released an Industrial Control Systems medical advisory warning of a critical flaw impacting Illumina medical devices. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to take any action at the operating system level," CISA said.