Security News

Malware exploited critical Realtek SDK bug in millions of attacks
2023-01-25 18:00

Hackers have leveraged a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Realtek Jungle SDK 134 million attacks trying to infect smart devices in the second half of 2022. Most of these attacks originate from botnet malware families like Mirai, Gafgyt, Mozi, and derivatives of them.

Botnets exploited Realtek SDK critical bug in millions of attacks
2023-01-25 18:00

Hackers have leveraged a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Realtek Jungle SDK 134 million attacks trying to infect smart devices in the second half of 2022. Unit 42 logged activity leveraging CVE-2021-35394 from all over the world but almost half of the attacks originated from the United States.

Critical VMware vRealize Log Insight flaws patched (CVE-2022-31706, CVE-2022-31704)
2023-01-25 11:01

VMware has fixed two critical and two important security vulnerabilities in VMware vRealize Log Insight, its multi-cloud solution for centralized log management, operational visibility and intelligent analytics.Reported by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, none of the flaws are currently exploited by attackers in the wild, but given threat actors' predilection for targeting widely used VMware solutions, fixing these sooner rather than later is a good idea.

VMware Releases Patches for Critical vRealize Log Insight Software Vulnerabilities
2023-01-25 07:07

VMware on Tuesday released software to remediate four security vulnerabilities affecting vRealize Log Insight that could expose users to remote code execution attacks. Tracked as CVE-2022-31706 and CVE-2022-31704, the directory traversal and broken access control issues could be exploited by a threat actor to achieve remote code execution irrespective of the difference in the attack pathway.

Logfile management is no fun. Now it's a nightmare thanks to critical-rated VMware flaws
2023-01-25 02:45

VMware has issued fixes for four vulnerabilities, including two critical 9.8-rated remote code execution bugs, in its vRealize Log Insight software. There are no reports of nation-state thugs or cybercriminals finding and exploiting these bugs, according to VMware.

VMware fixes critical security bugs in vRealize log analysis tool
2023-01-24 22:01

VMware released security patches on Tuesday to address vRealize Log Insight vulnerabilities that could enable attackers to gain remote execution on unpatched appliances. vRealize Log Insight is a log analysis and management tool that helps analyze terabytes of infrastructure and application logs in VMware environments.

75k WordPress sites impacted by critical online course plugin flaws
2023-01-24 17:16

The WordPress online course plugin 'LearnPress' was vulnerable to multiple critical-severity flaws, including pre-auth SQL injection and local file inclusion. LearnPress is a learning management system plugin that allows WordPress websites to easily create and sell online courses, lessons, and quizzes, providing visitors with a friendly interface while requiring no coding knowledge from the website developer.

Extent of reported CVEs overwhelms critical infrastructure asset owners
2023-01-23 04:30

The sheer volume of reported ICS vulnerabilities and CVEs may cause critical infrastructure asset owners to feel overwhelmed, or need help knowing where to begin, according to SynSaber. There is a deluge of vulnerability disclosures in industrial control systems, often creating anxiety as the security community attempts to patch or remediate each point of exposure - an impossible feat," said Ron Fabela, CTO of SynSaber.

Week in review: Critical git vulnerabilities, increasingly malicious Google Search ads
2023-01-22 09:30

Cacti servers under attack by attackers exploiting CVE-2022-46169If you're running the Cacti network monitoring solution and you haven't updated it since early December, now is the time to do it to foil attackers exploiting a critical command injection flaw. PoC for critical ManageEngine bug to be released, so get patching!If your enterprise is running ManageEngine products that were affected by CVE-2022-47966, check now whether they've been updated to a non-vulnerable version because Horizon3 will be releasing technical details and a PoC exploit this week.

Critical ManageEngine RCE bug now exploited to open reverse shells
2023-01-20 19:08

A critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting multiple Zoho ManageEngine products is now being exploited in attacks. While investigating attacks that led to the compromise of some of its customers' ManageEngine instances, Rapid7 also observed post-exploitation activity.