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Even with the security updates prompted by the recent SolarWinds Orion supply-chain attack, researchers still found some glaring vulnerabilities affecting the platform, one of them allowing code execution with top privileges. The vulnerabilities have been discovered and reported to SolarWinds by Martin Rakhmanov, Security Research Manager, SpiderLabs at Trustwave, and have proof-of-concept exploit code available.
Vulnerability intelligence-as-a-service outfit vFeed has compiled a list of the top 10 most exploited vulnerabilities from 2020, and among them are SMBGhost, Zerologon, and SIGRed. What is vFeed?...
Microsoft announced that Defender for Endpoint will now also help admins discover OS and software vulnerabilities affecting macOS devices on their organization's network. "This capability expansion enables organizations to discover, prioritize, and remediate both software and operating system vulnerabilities on devices running macOS," Microsoft Senior Product Manager Tomer Reisner said.
CISOs need to be more vigilant about building cybersecurity into projects from the beginning, one CISO says.
Multiple vulnerabilities patched recently in the popular WordPress plugin Popup Builder could be exploited to perform various malicious actions on affected websites. With over 200,000 installations to date, "Popup Builder - Responsive WordPress Pop up - Subscription & Newsletter" is a plugin that helps WordPress site owners create, customize, and manage promotion modal popups.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency this week released an advisory to inform industrial organizations that some SCADA/HMI products made by Japanese electrical equipment company Fuji Electric are affected by potentially serious vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities, reported to Fuji Electric by various researchers through Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative and CISA, have been described as buffer overflow, out-of-bounds read/write and uninitialized pointer issues that can be exploited for arbitrary code execution.
Apple on Tuesday released updates for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS with fixes for three security vulnerabilities that it says may have been actively exploited in the wild. The iPhone maker did not disclose how widespread the attack was or reveal the identities of the attackers actively exploiting them.
Industrial organizations have been informed about the existence of several potentially serious vulnerabilities affecting an OPC UA product made by Honeywell subsidiary Matrikon. As part of their analysis of OPC UA security, researchers at industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty discovered that Matrikon's OPC UA Tunneller product, which is designed for integrating OPC UA clients and servers with OPC Classic architecture, is affected by four critical and high-severity vulnerabilities that can be exploited for remote code execution, DoS attacks, and for obtaining potentially valuable information.
On Friday evening, SonicWall announced that it "Identified a coordinated attack on its internal systems by highly sophisticated threat actors exploiting probable zero-day vulnerabilities on certain SonicWall secure remote access products." "We believe it is extremely important to be transparent with our customers, our partners and the broader cybersecurity community about the ongoing attacks on global business and government," SonicWall said while warning the public about the potential zero-day vulnerabilities in the NetExtender VPN Client and Secure Mobile Access physical and virtual appliances.
Dnsmasq vulnerabilities open networking devices, Linux distros to DNS cache poisoningSeven vulnerabilities affecting Dnsmasq, a caching DNS and DHCP server used in a variety of networking devices and Linux distributions, could be leveraged to mount DNS cache poisoning attack and/or to compromise vulnerable devices. Vulnerability management isn't working for cloud security: Here's how to do it rightThree things in life are seemingly guaranteed: death, taxes and high-profile cloud security breaches.