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Ivanti Connect Secure zero-days exploited to deploy custom malware
2024-01-12 15:30

Hackers have been exploiting the two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure disclosed this week since early December to deploy multiple families of custom malware for espionage purposes. Zipline Passive Backdoor: custom malware that can intercept network traffic, supports upload/download operations, creating reverse shells, proxy servers, server tunneling.

Nation-State Actors Weaponize Ivanti VPN Zero-Days, Deploying 5 Malware Families
2024-01-12 13:53

As many as five different malware families were deployed by suspected nation-state actors as part of post-exploitation activities leveraging two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure...

Infoseccers think attackers backed by China are behind Ivanti zero-day exploits
2024-01-11 15:06

Security experts believe Chinese nation-state attackers are actively exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in security products made by Ivanti. Ivanti believes fewer than ten victims have been successfully attacked thus far, but according to a Shodan scan by Beaumont, the number of vulnerable gateways exposed to the internet is just north of 15,000.

Ivanti Connect Secure zero-days exploited by attackers (CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887)
2024-01-11 11:35

Two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN devices are under active exploitation by unknown attackers, Volexity researchers have discovered. The two security flaws affect all supported versions of Ivanti Connect Secure - formerly known as Pulse Connect Secure - and Ivanti Policy Secure.

Chinese Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure
2024-01-11 05:29

A pair of zero-day flaws identified in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Policy Secure have been chained by suspected China-linked nation-state actors to breach less than 10 customers. Cybersecurity...

Ivanti warns of Connect Secure zero-days exploited in attacks
2024-01-10 18:53

Ivanti has disclosed two Connect Secure and Policy Secure zero-days exploited in the wild that can let remote attackers execute arbitrary commands on targeted gateways. Ivanti says the two zero-days have already been exploited in the wild in attacks targeting a small number of customers.

Apache OFBiz zero-day pummeled by exploit attempts after disclosure
2024-01-08 17:45

SonicWall says it has observed thousands of daily attempts to exploit an Apache OFBiz zero-day for nearly a fortnight. If you use the Apache Software Foundation framework, which includes business process automation apps and other enterprise-friendly functions, you should upgrade to OFBiz version 18.12.11 immediately to patch both this and a second, equally serious hole.

New iPhone Exploit Uses Four Zero-Days
2024-01-04 12:11

Kaspersky researchers are detailing "An attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky." It's a zero-click exploit that makes use of four iPhone zero-days. It uses return/jump oriented programming and multiple stages written in the NSExpression/NSPredicate query language, patching the JavaScriptCore library environment to execute a privilege escalation exploit written in JavaScript.

Critical Zero-Day in Apache OfBiz ERP System Exposes Businesses to Attack
2023-12-27 15:39

A new zero-day security flaw has been discovered in the Apache OfBiz, an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that could be exploited to bypass authentication protections. The...

Chinese Hackers Exploited New Zero-Day in Barracuda's ESG Appliances
2023-12-27 12:35

Barracuda has revealed that Chinese threat actors exploited a new zero-day in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances to deploy backdoor on a "limited number" of devices. Tracked...