Security News

Vulnerability prioritization is only the beginning
2024-08-23 04:30

To date, most technology solutions focused on vulnerability management have focused on the prioritization of risks. That usually took the shape of some risk-ranking structure displayed in a table...

Hardcoded Credential Vulnerability Found in SolarWinds Web Help Desk
2024-08-22 16:35

SolarWinds has issued patches to address a new security flaw in its Web Help Desk (WHD) software that could allow remote unauthenticated users to gain unauthorized access to susceptible instances....

Microsoft Patches Critical Copilot Studio Vulnerability Exposing Sensitive Data
2024-08-21 16:15

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting Microsoft's Copilot Studio that could be exploited to access sensitive information. "An authenticated attacker can bypass Server-Side Request Forgery protection in Microsoft Copilot Studio to leak sensitive information over a network," Microsoft said in an advisory released on August 6, 2024.

GiveWP WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Puts 100,000+ Websites at Risk
2024-08-21 04:35

A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WordPress GiveWP donation and fundraising plugin that exposes more than 100,000 websites to remote code execution attacks. The flaw,...

Hackers Exploit PHP Vulnerability to Deploy Stealthy Msupedge Backdoor
2024-08-20 10:25

A previously undocumented backdoor named Msupedge has been put to use against a cyber attack targeting an unnamed university in Taiwan. "The most notable feature of this backdoor is that it communicates with a command-and-control server via DNS traffic," the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

CISA Warns of Critical Jenkins Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks
2024-08-20 04:53

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical security flaw impacting Jenkins to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following its...

New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability
2024-08-16 11:07

As Microsoft explained in its Tuesday advisory, unauthenticated attackers can exploit the flaw remotely in low-complexity attacks by repeatedly sending IPv6 packets that include specially crafted packets. Microsoft also shared its exploitability assessment for this critical vulnerability, tagging it with an "Exploitation more likely" label, which means that threat actors could create exploit code to "Consistently exploit the flaw in attacks."

GitHub Vulnerability 'ArtiPACKED' Exposes Repositories to Potential Takeover
2024-08-15 06:47

A newly discovered attack vector in GitHub Actions artifacts dubbed ArtiPACKED could be exploited to take over repositories and gain access to organizations' cloud environments."A combination of misconfigurations and security flaws can make artifacts leak tokens, both of third party cloud services and GitHub tokens, making them available for anyone with read access to the repository to consume," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Yaron Avital said in a report published this week.

FreeBSD Releases Urgent Patch for High-Severity OpenSSH Vulnerability
2024-08-12 10:15

The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that attackers could potentially exploit to execute arbitrary code remotely with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7589, carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of a maximum of 10.0, indicating high severity.

Microsoft Warns of Unpatched Office Vulnerability Leading to Data Exposure
2024-08-10 05:35

Microsoft has disclosed an unpatched zero-day in Office that, if successfully exploited, could result in unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information to malicious actors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38200, has been described as a spoofing flaw that affects the following versions of Office -.