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A critical vulnerability impacting the Cisco BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform and Cisco BroadWorks Xtended Services Platform could allow remote attackers to forge credentials and bypass authentication. Cisco BroadWorks is a cloud communication services platform for businesses and consumers, while the two mentioned components are used for app management and integration.

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine on Tuesday said it thwarted a cyber attack against an unnamed critical energy infrastructure facility in the country. "Visiting the link will download a ZIP archive containing three JPG images and a BAT file 'weblinks.cmd' to the victim's computer," CERT-UA said, attributing it to the Russian threat actor known as APT28.

Three critical-severity remote code execution vulnerabilities impact ASUS RT-AX55, RT-AX56U V2, and RT-AC86U routers, potentially allowing threat actors to hijack devices if security updates are not installed.The flaws, which all have a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 out of 10.0, are format string vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely and without authentication, potentially allowing remote code execution, service interruptions, and performing arbitrary operations on the device.

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been made available for a recently disclosed and patched critical flaw impacting VMware Aria Operations for Networks. "A malicious actor with network access to Aria Operations for Networks could bypass SSH authentication to gain access to the Aria Operations for Networks CLI," VMware said earlier this week.

Proof-of-concept exploit code has been released for a critical SSH authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware's Aria Operations for Networks analysis tool.Today, VMware confirmed that CVE-2023-34039 exploit code has been published online, two days after disclosing the critical security bug.

VMware Aria Operations for Networks is vulnerable to a critical severity authentication bypass flaw that could allow remote attackers to bypass SSH authentication and access private endpoints. VMware Aria is a suite for managing and monitoring virtualized environments and hybrid clouds, enabling IT automation, log management, analytics generation, network visibility, security and capacity planning, and full-scope operations management.

VMware has patched one critical and one high-severity vulnerability in Aria Operations for Networks, its popular enterprise network monitoring tool. It could allow an attacker with network access to Aria Operations for Networks to bypass SSH authentication to gain access to the Aria Operations for Networks command-line interface.

VMware has released software updates to correct two security vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks that could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution."A malicious actor with network access to Aria Operations for Networks could bypass SSH authentication to gain access to the Aria Operations for Networks CLI," the company said in an advisory.

Hackers are using a critical exploit chain to target Juniper EX switches and SRX firewalls via their Internet-exposed J-Web configuration interface. One week after Juniper disclosed and released security updates to patch the four flaws that can be chained to achieve remote code execution, watchTowr Labs security researchers released a proof-of-concept exploit targeting the SRX firewall bugs.

Unpatched Citrix NetScaler systems exposed to the internet are being targeted by unknown threat actors in what's suspected to be a ransomware attack. Attack chains involve the exploitation of CVE-2023-3519, a critical code injection vulnerability impacting NetScaler ADC and Gateway servers that could facilitate unauthenticated remote code execution.