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A proof-of-concept exploit has been released online for the VMware CVE-2022-22954 remote code execution vulnerability, already being used in active attacks that infect servers with coin miners. The vulnerability is a critical remote code execution impacting VMware Workspace ONE Access and VMware Identity Manager, two widely used software products.
A proof-of-concept exploit has been released online for the VMware CVE-2022-22954 remote code execution vulnerability, already being used in active attacks that infect servers with coin miners. The vulnerability is a critical remote code execution impacting VMware Workspace ONE Access and VMware Identity Manager, two widely used software products.
There has been a land rush of sorts among threat groups trying to use the vulnerability discovered in the open-source Spring Framework last month, and now researchers at Trend Micro are saying it's being actively exploited to execute the Mirai botnet. The Mirai malware is a long-running threat that has been around since 2016 and is used to pull smaller networked and Internet of Things devices such as IP cameras and routers into a botnet that can then be used in such campaigns as distributed denial-of-service and phishing attacks.
The Mirai malware is now leveraging the Spring4Shell exploit to infect vulnerable web servers and recruit them for DDoS attacks. Spring4Shell is a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-22965, affecting Spring Framework, a widely used enterprise-level Java app development platform.
A Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service botnet tracked as Beastmode has updated its list of exploits to include several new ones, three of them targeting various models of Totolink routers. The authors of DDoS botnets did not waste any time and added these flaws to their arsenal to take advantage of the opportunity window before Totolink router owners applied the security updates.
Phishing attacks exploit free calendar app to steal account credentials. Cybercriminals who specialize in phishing attacks like to point people to actual websites as much as possible.
The Muhstik malware gang is now actively targeting and exploiting a Lua sandbox escape vulnerability in Redis after a proof-of-concept exploit was publicly released. On March 10th, a proof-of-concept exploit was publicly released on GitHub, allowing malicious actors to run arbitrary Lua scripts remotely, achieving sandbox escape on the target host.
Google on Thursday described how it apparently caught and thwarted North Korea's efforts to exploit a remote code execution vulnerability in Chrome. Exploiting the bug clears the way to compromise a victim's browser and potentially take over their computer to spy on them.
North Korean state hackers have exploited a zero-day, remote code execution vulnerability in Google Chrome web browser for more than a month before a patch became available, in attacks targeting news media, IT companies, cryptocurrency, and fintech organizations. Google's Threat Analysis Group attributed two campaigns exploiting the recently patched CVE-2022-0609 to two separate attacker groups backed by the North Korean government.
An unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor has been targeting betting companies in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, leveraging a vulnerability in WPS Office to plant a backdoor on the targeted systems. The first infection vector used in this campaign is an email with a laced installer that pretends to be a critical WPS Office update, but in most attacks, the threat actors use a different method.