Security News
Ivanti has released patches for new DoS vulnerabilities affecting Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure, some of which could also lead to execution of arbitrary code or information disclosure. Three months since attackers started exploiting a string of zero-days in Ivanti Connect Secure and bypassing mitigations for them, the company's CEO has announced they will be accelerating security initiatives and improving security practices.
CISA and the FBI urged executives of technology manufacturing companies to prompt formal reviews of their organizations' software and implement mitigations to eliminate SQL injection security vulnerabilities before shipping.In SQL injection attacks, threat actors "Inject" maliciously crafted SQL queries into input fields or parameters used in database queries, exploiting vulnerabilities in the application's security to execute unintended SQL commands, such as exfiltrating, manipulating, or deleting sensitive data stored in the database.
NIST is currently working to establish a consortium to address challenges in the NVD program and develop improved tools and methods. That's a good thing, because a CVE without its NVD data is pretty meaningless.
GitHub introduced a new AI-powered feature capable of speeding up vulnerability fixes while coding. Known as Code Scanning Autofix and powered by GitHub Copilot and CodeQL, it helps deal with over 90% of alert types in JavaScript, Typescript, Java, and Python.
Arcserve has fixed critical security vulnerabilities in its Unified Data Protection solution that can be chained to upload malicious files to the underlying Windows system. Tenable researchers have published a PoC exploit script demonstrating the attack, as well as one for triggering a third flaw that can lead to denial of service.
Microsoft on Tuesday released its monthly security update, addressing 61 different security flaws spanning its software, including two critical issues impacting Windows Hyper-V that could lead to...
A financially motivated threat actor is using known vulnerabilities to target public-facing services and deliver custom malware to unpatched Windows and Linux systems. Magnet Goblin - as the threat actor has been dubbed by Check Point researchers - has been targeting unpatched edge devices and public-facing servers for years.
JetBrains has fixed two critical security vulnerabilities affecting TeamCity On-Premises and is urging customers to patch them immediately. "Rapid7 originally identified and reported these vulnerabilities to us and has chosen to adhere strictly to its own vulnerability disclosure policy. This means that their team will publish full technical details of these vulnerabilities and their replication steps within 24 hours of this notice," the company stated today.
The Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance has issued a new cybersecurity advisory warning of cyber threat actors exploiting known security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Ivanti Policy Secure...
Two new vulnerabilities impact ConnectWise ScreenConnect, remote desktop and access software used for support: CVE-2024-1709 and CVE-2024-1708, with the former being particularly dangerous for organizations. The CVE-2024-1709 vulnerability, which affects ScreenConnect 23.9.7 and prior, allows any remote attacker to bypass authentication to delete the ScreenConnect user database and get control of an admin user.