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ExpressVPN has updated its bug bounty program to make it more inviting to ethical hackers, now offering a one-time $100,000 bug bounty to whoever can compromise its systems. Today, ExpressVPN announced that they are now offering a $100,000 bug bounty for critical vulnerabilities in their in-house technology, TrustedServer.
An initial access broker group tracked as Prophet Spider has been linked to a set of malicious activities that exploits the Log4Shell vulnerability in unpatched VMware Horizon Servers. The payloads observed include cryptocurrency miners, Cobalt Strike Beacons, and web shells, corroborating a previous advisory from the U.K. National Health Service that sounded the alarm on active exploitation of the vulnerabilities in VMware Horizon servers to drop malicious web shells and establish persistence on affected networks for follow-on attacks.
LockBit is the latest ransomware gang whose Linux encryptor has been discovered to be focusing on the encryption of VMware ESXi virtual machines.Due to this, ransomware gangs have evolved their tactics to create Linux encryptors that specifically target the popular VMware vSphere and ESXi virtualization platforms over the past year.
VMware urges customers to patch critical Log4j security vulnerabilities impacting Internet-exposed VMware Horizon servers targeted in ongoing attacks. Microsoft also warned two weeks ago of a Chinese-speaking threat actor tracked as DEV-0401 who deploys Night Sky ransomware on Internet-exposed VMware Horizon servers using Log4Shell exploits.
Researchers have discovered two critical bugs in Control Web Panel - a popular web hosting management software used by 200K+ servers - that could allow for remote code execution as root on vulnerable Linux servers. CWP, formerly known as CentOS Web Panel, is an open-source Linux control panel software used for creating and managing web hosting environments.
There's a dangerous remote-code execution bug in the Dark Souls video game that could let attackers brick the PCs of online players. The main problem is with Dark Souls III, but the remote code-execution vulnerability also affects earlier games in the Dark Soul series, leading the developers to temporarily turn off player-versus-player servers across Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls II and Dark Souls III. PvP refers to players being able to interact and duel with each other.
Two security vulnerabilities that impact the Control Web Panel software can be chained by unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution as root on vulnerable Linux servers. CWP, previously known as CentOS Web Panel, is a free Linux control panel for managing dedicated web hosting servers and virtual private servers.
A group of hackers claim they breached and encrypted servers belonging to the Belarusian Railway, Belarus's national state-owned railway company. "At the command of the terrorist Lukashenka, Belarusian Railway allows the occupying troops to enter our land," the group said today on Twitter.
Bandai Namco has deactivated the online PvP mode for the Dark Souls role-playing game, taking its servers offline to investigate reports about a severe security issue that may pose a risk to players. Bandai Namco allegedly ignored the report but given the severity of the flaw, the reporter decided to demonstrate it on popular streamers to raise awareness and show how critical it is.
Bandai Namco has deactivated the online PvP mode for the Dark Souls role-playing game, taking its servers offline to investigate reports about a severe security issue that may pose a risk to players. The issue became widely known on Saturday in a post on Discord clarifying that the game developer received details about the RCE vulnerability in a responsible disclosure report straight from the person who discovered it.