Security News

With its innovative feature for generating reliable Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange documents, Kubescape became the first open-source project to provide this functionality. Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange is a standard that facilitates the sharing and analyzing of information about vulnerabilities and their potential for exploitation.

The Russian founder of the now-defunct Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange has pleaded guilty, nearly 11 months after he was arrested in Miami earlier this year. Anatoly Legkodymov (aka Anatolii...

Russian national Anatoly Legkodymov pleaded guilty to operating the Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange that helped ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals launder over $700 million. As a Bitzlato co-founder and principal stakeholder, Legkodymov has agreed to disband the cryptocurrency exchange and relinquish any rights to approximately $23 million in seized assets, as outlined in the plea agreement.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new rules around disclosure of cybersecurity incidents go into effect on Dec. 15 for public companies with fiscal years starting on or after that date.Now, those organizations are asking what they need to alter or enhance about their disclosure procedures, incident response and existing cyber capabilities.

Microsoft's Threat Intelligence team issued a warning earlier today about the Russian state-sponsored actor APT28 actively exploiting the CVE-2023-23397 Outlook flaw to hijack Microsoft Exchange accounts and steal sensitive information. The tech giant also highlighted the exploitation of other vulnerabilities with publicly available exploits in the same attacks, including CVE-2023-38831 in WinRAR and CVE-2021-40444 in Windows MSHTML. Outlook flaw exploitation background.

Tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange email servers in Europe, the U.S., and Asia exposed on the public internet are vulnerable to remote code execution flaws. Internet scans from The ShadowServer Foundation show that there are close to 20,000 Microsoft Exchange servers currently reachable over the public internet that have reached the end-of-life stage.

The founder of the Poloniex has offered to pay off thieves who drained an estimated $120 million of user funds from the cryptocurrency exchange in a raid on Friday. "We are offering a five percent white hat bounty to the Poloniex hacker," Sun wrote.

Microsoft Exchange is impacted by four zero-day vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit remotely to execute arbitrary code or disclose sensitive information on affected installations. ZDI-23-1578 - A remote code execution flaw in the 'ChainedSerializationBinder' class, where user data isn't adequately validated, allowing attackers to deserialize untrusted data.

Microsoft is investigating Exchange Online mail delivery issues causing "Server busy" errors and delays when receiving emails from outside organizations. According to user reports online, the Exchange Online problems started this morning, affecting Microsoft 365 customers worldwide, across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

The Exchange Team asked admins to deploy a new and "Better" patch for a critical Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerability initially addressed in August. Tracked as CVE-2023-21709 and patched during August 2023 Patch Tuesday, the security flaw enables unauthenticated attackers to escalate privileges on unpatched Exchange servers in low-complexity attacks that don't require user interaction.