“Bad Things Come in Threes.” Three historical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel. If exploited, it could be used to gain root access to those systems. The original researchers from the security firm GRIMM have stated that these vulnerabilities remained undiscovered for 15 years. The vulnerabilities exist in the Linux kernel SCSI (Small […]
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Mar
Mar
Phishing attacks targeting Microsoft users are leveraging a fake Google reCAPTCHA page. Attackers are sending thousands of emails to steal Office 365 account credentials. Combined with the forged reCAPTCHA ruse, top-level domain landing pages that include the victim’s company logo were discovered. Researchers say that at least 2,500 emails have been flagged after being sent […]
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Mar
Mar
Threat actors are targeting companies to include Zillo, Amazon and Slack’s NodeJS applications by using a new vulnerability known as “Dependency Confusion”. By utilising this vulnerability, attacks can steal Unix based system password files and open reverse shells back to an attacker. The attacker creates packages utilising the same names as a company’s internal component […]
Apple’s new M1 chips had no known malware for them…until now. A vulnerability dubbed the “Silver Sparrow” is an activity cluster that includes a malicious binary compiled to run on the new model. What is unique about this vulnerability, and does it lack a payload? Silver Sparrow uses a launch agent to establish persistence, which […]
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Feb
Feb
Several unpatched vulnerabilities were discovered in the ShareIT Android application by Trend Micro, an app with over one billion downloads that is used for sharing files between users and their devices. The vulnerability is believed to have been unpatched for three months, which allows an attacker to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on the victim’s […]
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Feb
Microsoft has secured 56 vulnerabilities in the February patch Tuesday, this includes 11 critical vulnerabilities, 6 of which were publicly known. The patches cover components in Microsoft Windows, the .NET framework, Azure IoT, Azure Kubernetes Service, Edge for Android, Exchange server, MSS office services, and web applications, Sky for Business and Lynx, and Microsoft Defender. […]
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Feb
Feb
Two CVE’s associated with VMWare ESXi are being exploited in the Wild. One major ransomware gang abuses vulnerabilities on the ESXi platform to take over virtual machines deployed in enterprise environments by encrypting their virtual hard drives. CVE’s 2019-5544 and 2020-3992 impact the Service Location Protocol (SLP), used by devices on the same network to […]
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Jan
A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability has been discovered in the Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA) center, which could put enterprise users at risk of remote attacks and takeovers. CVE-2021-1257 as it is designated, is present in the web management interface of the Cisco DNA Center. This web interface is a centralised network-management and orchestration […]
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Jan
The Windows utility developer IObit forums hacked over the weekend, for the threat actors to distribute a peculiar strain of ransomware called “DeroHE” to its forum members. IObit is known for Windows system optimisation and anti-malware programs such as Advanced SystemCare. Members of the forum received an email claiming to be from the company, stating that […]
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Jan
Jan
A cloud misconfiguration by the Chinese social media management company SocialArks exposed 318 million records from Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. More than 400GB of public and private profile data for 214 million social-media users world-wide. The leak stems from a misconfigured ElasticSearch database, which contained Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Researchers discovered that the server was publicly exposed without a […]