Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer - Since mid-November 2023, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed threat actors, including financially motivated actors like Storm-0569, Storm-1113, Sangria Tempest, and Storm-1674, utilizing the ms-appinstaller URI scheme to distribute malware. In ...
11 months ago Microsoft.com
Microsoft Targets Threat Group Behind Fake Accounts - Microsoft seized parts of the infrastructure of a prolific Vietnam-based threat group that the IT giant said was responsible for creating as many as 750 million fraudulent Microsoft accounts that were then sold to other bad actors and used to launch ...
1 year ago Securityboulevard.com
CVE-2009-4212 - Multiple integer underflows in the (1) AES and (2) RC4 decryption functionality in the crypto library in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.3 through 1.6.3, and 1.7 before 1.7.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly ...
4 years ago
New ISC Security Patches Released for 2021: What You Need to Know - The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the largest provider of open-source Internet infrastructure software, has released new security patches designed to mitigate data breaches and other cyber threats. These new security patches, released in January ...
1 year ago Thehackernews.com
SANS Institute Research Shows the Frameworks Organizations Use - The report shares and analyzes research on a range of security operations center practices and outlines the current state of the SOC within many organizations, based on in-depth survey findings of IT and cybersecurity professionals from around the ...
1 year ago Darkreading.com
Microsoft Disabled App Installer Abused by Hackers - Threat actors, particularly those with financial motivations, have been observed spreading malware via the ms-appinstaller URI scheme. As a result of this activity, Microsoft has disabled the ms-appinstaller protocol handler by default. The ...
11 months ago Cybersecuritynews.com
Attacks begin on critical Atlassian Confluence vulnerability - Multiple cybersecurity organizations have observed exploitation attempts against a critical Atlassian Confluence vulnerability that was disclosed and patched last week. In a security advisory published on Jan. 16, Atlassian detailed a remote code ...
10 months ago Techtarget.com
CVE-2024-38514 - NextChat v2.12.3 suffers from a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) and Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability due to a lack of validation of the GET parameter on the WebDav API endpoint.The vulnerability exists because of the following code snippet ...
5 months ago Tenable.com
Building Data Center Infrastructure for the AI Revolution - This is part two of a multi-part blog series on AI. Part one, Why 2024 is the Year of AI for Networking, discussed Cisco's AI networking vision and strategy. This blog will focus on evolving data center network infrastructure for supporting AI/ML ...
9 months ago Feedpress.me
December 2023 Patch Tuesday forecast: 'Tis the season for vigilance - Many in the retail industry have placed our systems in 'lockdown' since before Thanksgiving to ensure we don't interrupt ongoing sales. They won't be able to update them until after the holidays, but that doesn't mean they can't respond to threats. ...
1 year ago Helpnetsecurity.com
Patch Tuesday, March 2024 Edition - Apple and Microsoft recently released software updates to fix dozens of security holes in their operating systems. Microsoft today patched at least 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows OS. Meanwhile, Apple's new macOS Sonoma addresses at least 68 ...
9 months ago Krebsonsecurity.com
Google Chrome now auto-upgrades to secure connections for all users - Google has taken a significant step towards enhancing Chrome internet security by automatically upgrading insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS requests for 100% of users. A limited rollout of this feature in Google Chrome began in July, but as of October ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com
CVE-2023-22513 - This High severity RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability was introduced in version 8.0.0 of Bitbucket Data Center and Server. This RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 8.5, allows an authenticated attacker to execute ...
1 year ago
CVE-2008-6383 - SQL injection vulnerability in SpeedTech Organization and Resource Manager (Storm) 5.x before 5.x-1.14 and 6.x before 6.x-1.18, a module for Drupal, allows remote authenticated users with storm project access to execute arbitrary SQL commands via ...
7 years ago
Twisted Spider's Dangerous CACTUS Ransomware Attack - In a sophisticated cyber campaign, the group Twisted Spider, also recognized as Storm-0216, has joined forces with the cybercriminal faction Storm-1044. Employing a strategic method, they target specific endpoints through the deployment of an initial ...
1 year ago Cysecurity.news
Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2023 Edition - The final Patch Tuesday of 2023 is upon us, with Microsoft Corp. today releasing fixes for a relatively small number of security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. Among the critical bugs quashed this month is CVE-2023-35628, ...
1 year ago Krebsonsecurity.com
Microsoft March 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 60 flaws, 18 RCE bugs - Today is Microsoft's March 2024 Patch Tuesday, and security updates have been released for 60 vulnerabilities, including eighteen remote code execution flaws. This Patch Tuesday fixes only two critical vulnerabilities: Hyper-V remote code execution ...
9 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com
Access to Internet Infrastructure is Essential, in Wartime and Peacetime - We've been saying it for 20 years, and it remains true now more than ever: the internet is an essential service. It enables people to build and create communities, shed light on injustices, and acquire vital knowledge that might not otherwise be ...
9 months ago Eff.org
5 Lessons Learned from Windows Remote Desktop Honeypot Report - Recently, the SANS Institute released their annual Windows Remote Desktop Honeypot Report, providing comprehensive insights into the nature of malicious activity in a Windows environment. In order to understand how your own Windows network can be ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com