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Cisco warned today that a state-backed hacking group has been exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense firewalls since November 2023 to breach government networks worldwide. The hackers, identified as UAT4356 by Cisco Talos and STORM-1849 by Microsoft, began infiltrating vulnerable edge devices in early November 2023 in a cyber-espionage campaign tracked as ArcaneDoor.

AI's newfound accessibility will cause a surge in prompt hacking attempts and private GPT models used for nefarious purposes, a new report revealed. Experts at the cyber security company Radware forecast the impact that AI will have on the threat landscape in the 2024 Global Threat Analysis Report.

A vulnerability in enterprise file transfer solution CrushFTP is being exploited by attackers in a targeted fashion, according to Crowdstrike. According to Censys, there are currently 9,600+ publicly-exposed CrushFTP hosts, mostly in North America and Europe.

MITRE has been breached by attackers via two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti's Connect Secure VPN devices. The attackers have also managed to move laterally and compromise the company network's VMware infrastructure, MITRE confirmed late last week.

Users of the CrushFTP enterprise file transfer software are being urged to update to the latest version following the discovery of a security flaw that has come under targeted exploitation in the...

CrushFTP warned customers today in a private memo of an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability fixed in new versions released today, urging them to patch their servers immediately. The company also warned customers with servers still running CrushFTP v9 to immediately upgrade to v11 or update their instance via the dashboard.

The MITRE Corporation says that a state-backed hacking group breached its systems in January 2024 by chaining two Ivanti VPN zero-days. The incident was discovered after suspicious activity was detected on MITRE's Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment, an unclassified collaborative network used for research and development.

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Palo Alto Networks has started releasing hotfixes for a zero-day vulnerability that has been actively exploited since March 26th to backdoor PAN-OS firewalls. This maximum severity security flaw affects PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, and PAN-OS 11.1 firewalls with device telemetry and GlobalProtect enabled.

Palo Alto Networks firewalls under attack, hotfixes incoming!Attackers are exploiting a command injection vulnerability affecting Palo Alto Networks' firewalls, the company has warned, and urged customers to implement temporary mitigations and get in touch to check whether their devices have been compromised. It can handle almost anything, and someone once called it the kitchen sink of PKI. Microsoft patches two actively exploited zero-daysOn this April 2024 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed a record 147 CVE-numbered vulnerabilities, including CVE-2024-29988, a vulnerability that Microsoft hasn't marked as exploited, but Peter Girnus, senior threat researcher with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, has found being leveraged by attackers in the wild.