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An affiliate of the BlackCat ransomware group, also known as APLHV, is behind the attack that disrupted MGM Resorts' operations, forcing the company to shut down IT systems. In a statement today, the BlackCat ransomware group claims that they had infiltrated MGM's infrastructure since Friday and encrypted more than 100 ESXi hypervisors after the company took down the internal infrastructure.
An affiliate of the BlackCat ransomware group, also known as APLHV, is behind the attack that disrupted MGM Resorts' operations, forcing the company to shut down IT systems. In a statement today, the BlackCat ransomware group claims that they had infiltrated MGM's infrastructure since Friday and encrypted more than 100 ESXi hypervisors after the company took down the internal infrastructure.
Recently, a slew of activity by the advanced persistent threat group Lazarus has focused on finding vulnerable Microsoft IIS servers and infecting them with malware or using them to distribute malicious code. This article describes the details of the malware attacks and offers actionable suggestions for protecting Microsoft IIS servers against them.
Patches have been released to address two new security vulnerabilities in Apache SuperSet that could be exploited by an attacker to gain remote code execution on affected systems. Outside of these weaknesses, the latest version of Superset also remediates a separate improper REST API permission issue that allows for low-privilege users to carry out server-side request forgery attacks.
A cyberattack campaign is targeting exposed Microsoft SQL databases, aiming to deliver ransomware and Cobalt Strike payloads. The attackers target exposed MS SQL servers by brute-forcing access credentials.
An unknown threat actor has been observed weaponizing high-severity security flaws in the MinIO high-performance object storage system to achieve unauthorized code execution on affected servers. Cybersecurity and incident response firm Security Joes said the intrusion leveraged a publicly available exploit chain to backdoor the MinIO instance.
Threat actors are exploiting poorly secured Microsoft SQL servers to deliver Cobalt Strike and a ransomware strain called FreeWorld. "The ransomware payload of choice appears to be a newer variant of Mimic ransomware called FreeWorld."
A new version of the DreamBus botnet malware exploits a critical-severity remote code execution vulnerability in RocketMQ servers to infect devices. The recent DreamBus attacks leveraging that flaw were spotted by researchers at the Juniper Threat Labs, who reported a spike in the activity in mid-June 2023.
Microsoft announced today that Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 now come with support for HTTP Strict Transport Security. Microsoft provides detailed information on configuring HSTS on Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 via PowerShell or the Internet Information Services Manager on its documentation website.
Suspected Chinese hackers disproportionately targeted and breached government and government-linked organizations worldwide in recent attacks targeting a Barracuda Email Security Gateway zero-day, with a focus on entities across the Americas. Barracuda warned customers that the vulnerability was being exploited to breach ESG appliances on May 20, when it also patched all vulnerable devices remotely.