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In collaboration with CISA, the NSA, and the FBI, Five Eyes cybersecurity authorities have issued today a list of the 12 most exploited vulnerabilities throughout 2022."In 2022, malicious cyber actors exploited older software vulnerabilities more frequently than recently disclosed vulnerabilities and targeted unpatched, internet-facing systems," the joint advisory reads.
About 34% of security vulnerabilities impacting industrial control systems that were reported in the first half of 2023 have no patch or remediation, registering a significant increase from 13% the previous year. According to data compiled by SynSaber, a total of 670 ICS product flaws were reported via the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the first half of 2023, down from 681 reported during the first half of 2022.
CISA warned today of the significant breach risks linked to insecure direct object reference vulnerabilities impacting web applications in a joint advisory with the Australian Cyber Security Centre and U.S. National Security Agency. IDOR vulnerabilities are flaws in web apps that enable attackers to access and manipulate sensitive data by directly referencing internal objects or resources.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two high-severity security flaws in the Ubuntu kernel that could pave the way for local privilege escalation attacks. Cloud security firm Wiz, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said the easy-to-exploit shortcomings have the potential to impact 40% of Ubuntu users.
Coalition’s recent Cyber Threat Index 2023 predicts the average Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) rate will rise by 13% over 2022 to more than 1,900 per month in 2023. As thousands of...
A set of five security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Terrestrial Trunked Radio standard for radio communication used widely by government entities and critical infrastructure sectors, including what's believed to be an intentional backdoor that could have potentially exposed sensitive information. "Depending on infrastructure and device configurations, these vulnerabilities allow for real time decryption, harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks, message injection, user deanonymization, or session key pinning," the Netherlands-based cybersecurity company said.
Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in Apache OpenMeetings, a web conferencing solution, that could be potentially exploited by malicious actors to seize control of admin accounts and run malicious code on susceptible servers. "The acquired admin privileges can further be leveraged to exploit another vulnerability allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code on the Apache OpenMeetings server."
Newly discovered vulnerabilities in distributed control systems could allow attackers access to systems supporting industrial, energy, chemical and other operations. Security company Armis, in collaboration with operational technology company Honeywell, identified new vulnerabilities in Honeywell Experion distributed control system platforms.
Attackers are exploiting two Adobe ColdFusion vulnerabilities to breach servers and install web shells to enable persistent access and allow remote control of the system, according to Rapid7 researchers. CVE-2023-29298, a critical improper access control flaw that could allow attackers to bypass a security feature CVE-2023-29300, a deserialization of untrusted data that could be exploited for arbitrary code execution CVE-2023-29301, another security feature bypass vulnerability.
Microsoft Word documents exploiting known remote code execution flaws are being used as phishing lures to drop malware called LokiBot on compromised systems. The Word file that weaponizes CVE-2021-40444 contains an external GoFile link embedded within an XML file that leads to the download of an HTML file, which exploits Follina to download a next-stage payload, an injector module written in Visual Basic that decrypts and launches LokiBot.