Security News

CISA Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Airspan Networks Mimosa
2022-02-05 21:24

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday published an Industrial Controls Systems Advisory warning of multiple vulnerabilities in the Airspan Networks Mimosa equipment that could be abused to gain remote code execution, create a denial-of-service condition, and obtain sensitive information. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain user data and other sensitive data, compromise Mimosa's AWS cloud EC2 instance and S3 Buckets, and execute unauthorized remote code on all cloud-connected Mimosa devices," CISA said in the alert.

The Week in Ransomware - February 4th 2022 - Critical Infrastructure
2022-02-05 00:15

Critical infrastructure suffered ransomware attacks, with threat actors targeting an oil petrol distributor and oil terminals in major ports in different attacks. Oil terminals in major ports disclosed that they too suffered ransomware attacks.

Critical Flaws Discovered in Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers
2022-02-03 21:00

Cisco has patched multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting its RV Series routers that could be weaponized to elevate privileges and execute arbitrary code on affected systems, while also warning of the existence of proof-of-concept exploit code targeting some of these bugs. Three of the 15 flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-20699, CVE-2022-20700, and CVE-2022-20707, carry the highest CVSS rating of 10.0, and affect its Small Business RV160, RV260, RV340, and RV345 Series routers.

Critical Cisco Bugs Open VPN Routers to Cyberattacks
2022-02-03 20:15

Critical security vulnerabilities in Cisco's Small Business RV Series routers could allow privilege escalation, remote code execution with root privileges on the devices and more. The critical bugs are part of 15 total vulnerabilities affecting the RV product line that Cisco disclosed this week.

Critical Cisco Bugs Open VPN Routers to Cyberattacks
2022-02-03 20:15

Critical security vulnerabilities in Cisco's Small Business RV Series routers could allow privilege escalation, remote code execution with root privileges on the devices and more. The critical bugs are part of 15 total vulnerabilities affecting the RV product line that Cisco disclosed this week.

Cisco fixes critical bugs in SMB routers, exploits available
2022-02-03 18:53

Cisco has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities in the Small Business RV Series router platform that could allow remote attackers to gain complete control over the device, in many cases, without authentication. In total, there are fifteen vulnerabilities fixed by these security updates, with five of them rated as Critical as threat actors can use them to gain 'root' privileges or remotely execute commands on the device.

Cisco fixes critical bugs in RV routers, exploit code available
2022-02-03 18:53

Cisco has released patches for multiple vulnerabilities in the Small Business RV Series router platform that could allow remote attackers to gain complete control over the device, in many cases, without authentication. In total, there are fifteen vulnerabilities fixed by these security updates, with five of them rated as Critical as threat actors can use them to gain 'root' privileges or remotely execute commands on the device.

Cisco plugs critical flaws in small business routers
2022-02-03 13:24

Cisco has patched 14 vulnerabilities affecting some of its Small Business RV Series routers, the worst of which may allow attackers to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution or execute arbitrary commands on the underlying Linux operating system. "The Cisco PSIRT is aware that proof-of-concept exploit code is available for several of the vulnerabilities that are described in this advisory," the company said in the accompanying security advisory.

Critical Bug Found in WordPress Plugin for Elementor with Over a Million Installations
2022-02-01 21:24

A WordPress plugin with over one million installs has been found to contain a critical vulnerability that could result in the execution of arbitrary code on compromised websites. The plugin in question is Essential Addons for Elementor, which provides WordPress site owners with a library of over 80 elements and extensions to help design and customize pages and posts.

600K WordPress sites impacted by critical plugin RCE vulnerability
2022-01-31 20:35

Essential Addons for Elementor, a popular WordPress plugin used in over a million sites, has been found to have a critical remote code execution vulnerability in version 5.0.4 and older. The flaw allows an unauthenticated user to perform a local file inclusion attack, such as a PHP file, to execute code on the site.