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The Feds and friends yesterday issued yet another warning about China's Volt Typhoon gang, this time urging critical infrastructure owners and operators to protect their facilities against destructive cyber attacks that may be brewing. The Tuesday alert - issued by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, FBI and eight other US and international partners - comes a little more than a month after the same groups from the same Five Eyes nations sounded the alarm on Volt Typhoon compromising "Multiple" critical infrastructure orgs' IT networks in America.
CISA, the NSA, the FBI, and several other agencies in the U.S. and worldwide warned critical infrastructure leaders to protect their systems against the Chinese Volt Typhoon hacking group. Together with the NSA, the FBI, other U.S. government agencies, and partner Five Eyes cybersecurity agencies, including cybersecurity agencies from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand, it also issued defense tips on detecting and defending against Volt Typhoon attacks.
Proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical RCE vulnerability in Fortra FileCatalyst MFT solution has been published.Fortra FileCatalyst is an enterprise managed file transfer software solution that includes several components: FileCatalyst Direct, Workflow, and Central.
The volume of Fortinet boxes exposed to the public internet and vulnerable to a month-old critical security flaw in FortiOS is still extremely high, despite a gradual increase in patching. According to security nonprofit Shadowserver's latest data, the number of Fortinet appliances vulnerable to CVE-2024-21762 stands at more than 133,000 - down only slightly from more than 150,000 ten days prior.
Fortra has released details of a now-patched critical security flaw impacting its FileCatalyst file transfer solution that could allow unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution on...
WordPress users of miniOrange's Malware Scanner and Web Application Firewall plugins are being urged to delete them from their websites following the discovery of a critical security flaw. The...
With temporary failures of critical infrastructure on the rise in the recent years, 81% of US residents are worried about how secure critical infrastructure may be, according to MITRE and The Harris Poll. Public views cyberattacks as greatest risk to critical infrastructure.
A recently fixed SQL injection vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiClient Endpoint Management Server solution has apparently piqued the interest of many: Horizon3's Attack Team means to publish technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit for it next week, and someone is attempting to sell a PoC for less than $300 via GitHub. "An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL Command vulnerability [CWE-89] in FortiClientEMS may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via specifically crafted requests," the company's product security incident response team pithily states in the associated advisory.
Arcserve has fixed critical security vulnerabilities in its Unified Data Protection solution that can be chained to upload malicious files to the underlying Windows system. Tenable researchers have published a PoC exploit script demonstrating the attack, as well as one for triggering a third flaw that can lead to denial of service.
Fortinet patched a critical vulnerability in its FortiClient Enterprise Management Server software that can allow attackers to gain remote code execution on vulnerable servers. Last month, Fortinet disclosed a critical remote code execution bug in the FortiOS operating system and the FortiProxy secure web proxy, which the company tagged as "Potentially being exploited in the wild."