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Malicious actors such as Kinsing are taking advantage of both recently disclosed and older security flaws in Oracle WebLogic Server to deliver cryptocurrency-mining malware. The Kinsing actors have also been involved in campaigns against container environments via misconfigured open Docker Daemon API ports to launch a crypto miner and subsequently spread the malware to other containers and hosts.
Someone is flooding Cobalt Strike servers operated by former members of the Conti ransomware gang with anti-Russian messages to disrupt their activity. The operators of Conti ransomware completed turning off their internal infrastructure in May this year but its members have dispersed to other ransomware gangs.
US-based CISOs get nearly $1 million per yearThe role of the Chief Information Security Officer is a relatively new senior-level executive position within most organizations, and is still evolving. Patch critical flaw in Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center!A critical vulnerability in Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center could be exploited by unauthorized attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable instances.
Chile's national computer security and incident response team has announced that a ransomware attack has impacted operations and online services of a government agency in the country. The attack started on Thursday, August 25, targeting Microsoft and VMware ESXi servers operated by the agency.
A critical command-injection vulnerability in multiple API endpoints of Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center could allow an unauthorized attacker to remotely execute malware, and view, change, and even delete data stored in repositories. As Atlassian explains in its security advisory, published mid-last week: "An attacker with access to a public repository or with read permissions to a private Bitbucket repository can execute arbitrary code by sending a malicious HTTP request."
A critical vulnerability in Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center could be exploited by unauthorized attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable instances. Bitbucket Server and Data Center are used by software developers around the world for source code revision control, management and hosting.
Atlassian has rolled out fixes for a critical security flaw in Bitbucket Server and Data Center that could lead to the execution of malicious code on vulnerable installations.Tracked as CVE-2022-36804, the issue has been characterized as a command injection vulnerability in multiple endpoints that could be exploited via specially crafted HTTP requests.
Atlassian has published a security advisory warning Bitbucket Server and Data Center users of a critical security flaw that attackers could leverage to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable instances. "An attacker with access to a public repository or with read permissions to a private Bitbucket repository can execute arbitrary code by sending a malicious HTTP request," explains Atlassian's advisory.
Threat actors have begun to use the Tox peer-to-peer instant messaging service as a command-and-control method, marking a shift from its earlier role as a contact method for ransomware negotiations. The findings from Uptycs, which analyzed an Executable and Linkable Format artifact that functions as a bot and can run scripts on the compromised host using the Tox protocol.
One of the many reasons why this is so is because of the tool's flexibility, and a perfect illustration of that is the ability to deploy your very own Bitwarden server using Docker. Why would you want to deploy your own Bitwarden server? You might have incredibly sensitive information that you only entrust to your internal teams.