Security News

SAP AI Core Vulnerabilities Expose Customer Data to Cyber Attacks
2024-07-18 09:33

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered security shortcomings in SAP AI Core cloud-based platform for creating and deploying predictive artificial intelligence workflows that could be exploited to get hold of access tokens and customer data. "The vulnerabilities we found could have allowed attackers to access customers' data and contaminate internal artifacts - spreading to related services and other customers' environments," security researcher Hillai Ben-Sasson said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

CISA urges devs to weed out OS command injection vulnerabilities
2024-07-10 18:02

CISA and the FBI urged software companies on Wednesday to review their products and eliminate path OS command injection vulnerabilities before shipping. "OS command injection vulnerabilities arise when manufacturers fail to properly validate and sanitize user input when constructing commands to execute on the underlying OS," today's joint advisory explains.

Google now pays $250,000 for KVM zero-day vulnerabilities
2024-07-02 18:06

Google has launched kvmCTF, a new vulnerability reward program first announced in October 2023 to improve the security of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine hypervisor that comes with $250,000 bounties for full VM escape exploits. An active and key KVM contributor, Google developed kvmCTF as a collaborative platform to help identify and fix vulnerabilities, bolstering this vital security layer.

75% of new vulnerabilities exploited within 19 days
2024-06-27 03:30

Last year alone, over 30,000 new vulnerabilities were published, with a new vulnerability emerging approximately every 17 minutes - averaging 600 new vulnerabilities per week, according to Skybox Security. The report highlights a critical gap in remediation efforts, with the average time to patch exceeding 100 days, contrasted against the finding that 75% of new vulnerabilities are exploited in 19 days or less.

Using LLMs to Exploit Vulnerabilities
2024-06-17 11:08

If it's actually a "Zero day" then by the definition it's unknown thus not in the LLM "Weights". "Researchers have shown that LLM agents can exploit real-world vulnerabilities when given a description of the vulnerability and toy capture-the-flag problems."

Solving the systemic problem of recurring vulnerabilities
2024-06-14 03:30

In this Help Net Security video, Dr. Pedram Hayati, CEO at SecDim, and Fil Filiposki, founder of AttackForge, discuss how the two companies have formed a strategic collaboration to tackle the major challenge of resurfacing vulnerabilities. By integrating SecDim's AppSec Learning wargame into AttackForge, a PenTest management platform, engineers gain a sandbox to explore real-world vulnerabilities safely.

Microsoft fixes RCE vulnerabilities in MSMQ, Outlook (CVE-2024-30080, CVE-2024-30103)
2024-06-11 19:49

June 2024 Patch Tuesday is here and Microsoft has delivered fixes for a critical MSMQ flaw and a RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook. CVE-2024-30080 is a use after free flaw affecting Microsoft Message Queuing and can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers by sending a specially crafted malicious MSMQ packet to a MSMQ server.

How to navigate NIS2 and secure your vulnerabilities
2024-06-07 15:07

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Zyxel Releases Patches for Firmware Vulnerabilities in EoL NAS Models
2024-06-05 07:10

Zyxel has released security updates to address critical flaws impacting two of its network-attached storage (NAS) devices that have currently reached end-of-life (EoL) status. Successful...

Researchers Uncover Active Exploitation of WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
2024-05-30 13:49

Cybersecurity researchers have warned that multiple high-severity security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins are being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue administrator accounts...