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Cisco is warning of attempted exploitation of a security flaw in its IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could permit an authenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution on...
Google has assigned a new CVE identifier for a critical security flaw in the libwebp image library for rendering images in the WebP format that has come under active exploitation in the wild....
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a recently patched security flaw in Microsoft's.NET and Visual Studio products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
Ukraine is warning of a wave of attacks targeting state organizations using 'Merlin,' an open-source post-exploitation and command and control framework. Merlin is a Go-based cross-platform post-exploitation toolkit available for free via GitHub, offering extensive documentation for security professionals to use in red team exercises.
Abusing AWS SSM Agent as a RAT. AWS Systems Manager is an Amazon-signed binary and comprehensive endpoint management system used by administrators for configuration, patching, and monitoring AWS ecosystems comprising EC2 instances, on-premise servers, or virtual machines. Mitiga's discovery is that the SSM agent can be configured to run in "Hybrid" mode even from within the limits of an EC2 instance, allowing access to assets and servers from attacker-controlled AWS accounts.
Ivanti is warning users to update their Endpoint Manager Mobile mobile device management software to the latest version that fixes an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability. Dubbed CVE-2023-35078, the issue has been described as a remote unauthenticated API access vulnerability that impacts currently supported version 11.4 releases 11.10, 11.9, and 11.8 as well as older releases.
Citrix ADC zero-day exploitatation: CISA releases details about attack on CI organizationThe exploitation of the Citrix NetScaler ADC zero-day vulnerability was first spotted by a critical infrastructure organization, who reported it to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. CISOs under pressure: Protecting sensitive information in the age of high employee turnoverIn this Help Net Security interview, Charles Brooks, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's Applied Intelligence Program and graduate Cybersecurity Programs, talks about how zero trust principles, identity access management, and managed security services are crucial for effective cybersecurity, and how implementation of new technologies like AI, machine learning, and tracking tools can enhance supply chain security.
Zimbra has warned of a critical zero-day security flaw in its email software that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Additional details about the flaw are currently unavailable.
Details have emerged about a now-patched actively exploited security flaw in Microsoft Windows that could be abused by a threat actor to gain elevated privileges on affected systems. "An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges," Microsoft disclosed in an advisory issued last month as part of Patch Tuesday updates.
Microsoft has officially linked the ongoing active exploitation of a critical flaw in the Progress Software MOVEit Transfer application to a threat actor it tracks as Lace Tempest. "Exploitation is often followed by deployment of a web shell with data exfiltration capabilities," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a series of tweets today.