Security News

LockBit Ransomware Exploiting Critical Citrix Bleed Vulnerability to Break In
2023-11-22 04:49

Multiple threat actors, including LockBit ransomware affiliates, are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler application delivery control (ADC) and...

Kinsing Hackers Exploit Apache ActiveMQ Vulnerability to Deploy Linux Rootkits
2023-11-21 10:00

The Kinsing threat actors are actively exploiting a critical security flaw in vulnerable Apache ActiveMQ servers to infect Linux systems with cryptocurrency miners and rootkits. "Once Kinsing...

Sophos Web Appliance vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-1671)
2023-11-20 11:43

CISA has added three vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, among them a critical vulnerability in Sophos Web Appliance that has been patched by the company in April 2023.CVE-2023-1671 is a pre-auth command injection vulnerability in the warn-proceed handler of Sophos Web Appliance that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Intel Patches Widespread Processor Vulnerability
2023-11-15 23:20

Intel has published a fix for a potential vulnerability that affected some Intel processors. On Nov. 14, Intel addressed the potential flaw in a variety of processors.

New SSH Vulnerability
2023-11-15 17:51

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise when naturally occurring computational errors occur while the connection is being established. The vulnerability occurs when there are errors during the signature generation that takes place when a client and server are establishing a connection.

Reptar: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Impacts Multi-Tenant Virtualized Environments
2023-11-15 07:52

Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs. Tracked as CVE-2023-23583 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has the...

Urgent: VMware Warns of Unpatched Critical Cloud Director Vulnerability
2023-11-15 04:18

VMware is warning of a critical and unpatched security flaw in Cloud Director that could be exploited by a malicious actor to get around authentication protections. Tracked as CVE-2023-34060 (CVSS...

CacheWarp Attack: New Vulnerability in AMD SEV Exposes Encrypted VMs
2023-11-14 18:40

A group of academics has disclosed a new "software fault attack" on AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology that could be potentially exploited by threat actors to infiltrate...

Novel backdoor persists even after critical Confluence vulnerability is patched
2023-11-14 11:00

A new backdoor was this week found implanted in the environments of organizations to exploit the recently disclosed critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence. The backdoor provides attackers remote access to a victim, both its Confluence server and other network resources, and is found to persist even after Confluence patches are applied.

Microsoft and SysAid Find Clop Malware Vulnerability
2023-11-10 20:18

SysAid has patched a zero-day vulnerability that could allow attackers to exfiltrate data and launch ransomware. The vulnerability was exploited by the threat group Lace Tempest, which distributes the Clop malware, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said on Nov. 8 on X. The Microsoft security experts wrote, in part, "Lace Tempest will likely use their access to exfiltrate data and deploy Clop ransomware."