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The massive blast radius from the Codecov supply chain attack remains shrouded in mystery as security teams continue to assess the fallout from the breach but a handful of victims are starting to publicly acknowledge possible exposure of sensitive developer secrets. The stealth software supply chain compromise of the Codecov Bash Uploader went undetected since January this year and exposed sensitive secrets like tokens, keys and credentials from organizations around the world.

In 2019, a Chinese security researcher working with the internet security and antivirus company Qihoo 360 unveiled an intricately woven exploit: One that would allegedly let a remote attacker easily jailbreak an iPhone X iOS 12.1. Allegedly shows, a successful exploit would allow a remote attacker to jailbreak an iPhoneX, with the targeted user none the wiser, allowing the intruder to gain access to a victim's data, processing power and more.

Pulse Secure has fixed a zero-day vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN appliance that is being actively exploited to compromise the internal networks of defense firms and govt agencies. A day later, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive ordering federal agencies to mitigate the vulnerability within two days by disabling the Windows File Share Browser and Pulse Secure Collaboration features.

The past four months have exposed two high-profile attacks, which both had pundits declaring them the "Worst-ever" and "Unprecedented." They shared other similarities - both attacked businesses rather than individuals, and affected tens of thousands of organizations. The second hack was against Microsoft Exchange servers and had a more familiar trajectory: Attackers found a series of zero-day vulnerabilities that could be chained together to break into any Exchange servers that were internet-accessible - and steal all the emails and files stored on them.

Multiple one-click vulnerabilities have been discovered across a variety of popular software applications, allowing an attacker to potentially execute arbitrary code on target systems. The issues were discovered by Positive Security researchers Fabian Bräunlein and Lukas Euler and affect apps like Telegram, Nextcloud, VLC, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Bitcoin/Dogecoin Wallets, Wireshark, and Mumble.

Pulse Secure has shared mitigation measures for a zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure SSL VPN appliance actively exploited in attacks against worldwide organizations and focused on US Defense Industrial base networks. To mitigate the vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-22893, Pulse Secure advises customers with gateways running PCS 9.0R3 and higher to upgrade the server software to the 9.1R.11.

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Security response professionals are scrambling to measure the fallout from a software supply chain compromise of Codecov Bash Uploader that went undetected since January and exposed sensitive secrets like tokens, keys and credentials from organizations around the world. The hack occurred four months ago but was only discovered in the wild by a Codecov customer on the morning of April 1, 2021, the company said in a note acknowledging the severity of the breach.

President Biden is putting the final details on a plan to encourage American electric utilities to strengthen their cybersecurity protections against hackers in the next 100 days, amid increasing cyberattacks. The White House push to boost electrical grid security comes in the wake of a report that a full quarter of the 1,500 utilities across North America were infected with the SolarWinds malware, now formally attributed to Russian state actors.

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