Security News

Critical vm2 sandbox escape flaw uncovered, patch ASAP! (CVE-2022-36067)
2022-10-10 09:34

Called SandBreak, this new vulnerability requires R&D leaders, AppSec engineers, and security professionals to ensure they immediately patch the vm2 sandbox if they use it in their applications. Vm2 is the most popular Javascript sandbox library, with around 17.5 million monthly downloads.

Week in review: 7 cybersecurity audiobooks to read, Patch Tuesday forecast
2022-10-09 08:00

How to start and grow a cybersecurity consultancyA cybersecurity industry veteran, Praveen Singh is the co-founder and Chief Information Security Advisor at CyberPWN Technologies, a digital defense consulting firm. CISA orders federal agencies to regularly perform IT asset discovery, vulnerability enumerationA new directive issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is ordering US federal civilian agencies to perform regular asset discovery and vulnerability enumeration, to better account for and protect the devices that reside on their networks.

Fortinet warns admins to patch critical auth bypass bug immediately
2022-10-07 13:04

Fortinet has warned administrators to update FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies to the latest versions, which address a critical severity vulnerability."An authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel [CWE-88] in FortiOS and FortiProxy may allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform operations on the administrative interface via specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests," Fortinet explains in a customer support bulletin issued today.

October 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast: Looking for treats, not more tricks
2022-10-07 05:30

Looking way ahead in the forecast, Microsoft Server 2012/2012 R2 will go into ESU support following the October 2023 Patch Tuesday on October 11. October 2022 Patch Tuesday forecast Expect the trend to address more CVEs in the older operating systems to continue.

Atlassian, Microsoft bugs on CISA’s must-patch list after exploitation spree
2022-10-04 00:31

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency late on Friday placed the flaw - tracked as CVE-2022-36804 - on its catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, effectively a must-patch list. CISA put the vulnerability in Bitbucket Server and Data Center tools on the KEV list on the same day as two high-profile Microsoft Exchange zero-day flaws.

Hackers Exploited Zero-Day RCE Vulnerability in Sophos Firewall — Patch Released
2022-09-24 05:03

Security software company Sophos has warned of cyberattacks targeting a recently addressed critical vulnerability in its firewall product.The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-3236, impacts Sophos Firewall v19.0 MR1 and older and concerns a code injection vulnerability in the User Portal and Webadmin components that could result in remote code execution.

CISA orders agencies to patch vulnerability used in Stuxnet attacks
2022-09-16 16:29

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added half a dozen vulnerabilities to its catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities and is ordering federal agencies to follow vendor's instructions to fix them. CISA is giving federal agencies until October 6th to patch security vulnerabilities that have been reported between 2010 and 2022.

CISA orders agencies to patch Windows, iOS bugs used in attacks
2022-09-14 16:48

CISA added two new vulnerabilities to its list of security bugs exploited in the wild today, including a Windows privilege escalation vulnerability and an arbitrary code execution flaw affecting iPhones and Macs. Apple also patched the arbitrary code execution vulnerability on Monday and confirmed that it was exploited in attacks as a zero-day bug in the iOS and macOS kernel.

Patch your Mitel VoIP systems, Lorenz ransomware gang is back on the prowl
2022-09-13 18:38

The Lorenz ransomware gang is exploiting a vulnerability in Mitel VoIP appliances to break corporate networks. Threat hunters with cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf Labs recently found that Lorenz - a prolific group that has been around since at least early 2021 and lately is primarily targeting SMBs in the US, China, and Mexico - used a vulnerability in a MiVoice VoIP appliance from Mitel to get into a victim's network before deploying Microsoft's BitLocker Drive Encryption tool to encrypt the data.

Microsoft September 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes zero-day used in attacks, 63 flaws
2022-09-13 17:36

Today is Microsoft's September 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for an actively exploited Windows vulnerability and a total of 63 flaws. Five of the 63 vulnerabilities fixed in today's update are classified as 'Critical' as they allow remote code execution, one of the most severe types of vulnerabilities.