In a world increasingly dependent on technology, software sprawl is growing. Companies use custom-built software, open source software, and products from third-party providers when building applications. Through this software supply chain, the digital attack surface expands. Each software dependency can also open it up to potential attack as bugs are found in all types of…

The July 2022 Patch Tuesday is upon us and has brought fixes for 84 CVEs in various Microsoft products, including an actively exploited zero-day: CVE-2022-22047, an elevation of privilege bug in Windows’ Client/Server Runtime Subsystem (CSRSS). “An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges,” Microsoft noted, but the attacker must first gain…

Titaniam, Inc., the industry’s most advanced data security platform, announced today the ‘State of Data Exfiltration & Extortion Report.’ The survey revealed that while over 70% of organizations have an existing set of prevention, detection, and backup solutions, nearly 40% of organizations have been hit with ransomware attacks in the last year, and more than…

Attackers once focused on exploiting ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange server vulnerabilities have made a pivot to the new SessionManager backdoor, which can be used to gain persistent, undetected access to emails — and even take over the target organization’s infrastructure. Researchers from Kaspersky today report the emergence of SessionManager, which they say is part of a…

The 2022 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses list contains the most common and impactful weaknesses, and is based on the analysis of nearly 38,000 CVE records from the previous two years. Out-of-bounds write and cross-site scripting (XSS) remain the two most dangerous vulnerabilities. Some of the most significant changes include race conditions moving…

Researchers have discovered a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Envoy Proxy, which gives attackers the opportunity to crash the proxy server. This could lead to performance degradation or unavailability of resources handled by the proxy, according to JFrog Security Research, which disclosed the vulnerability (CVE-2022-29225). Envoy is a widely used open source edge and service proxy…

CyberCatch today announced the publication of its quarterly Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Vulnerabilities Report (SMBVR) for Q1 2022 to alert small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to an alarming rise in vulnerabilities detected in Internet-facing websites, servers and applications. Of greatest concern, CyberCatch’s SMBVR has detected – for the first time in the report’s history —…