Hackers Deploy Python Backdoor in Palo Alto Zero-Day Attack
Threat actors have been exploiting the newly disclosed zero-day flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software dating back to March 26, 2024, nearly three weeks before it came to light yesterday. The network security company’s Unit 42 division is tracking the activity under the name Operation MidnightEclipse, attributing it as the work of a single…
Cybersecurity Threats Intensify in the Middle East During Ramadan
The holy month of Ramadan is a period where Middle East-based companies step up cybersecurity with extra vigilance and outsourced support amid shortened working hours and increased e-commerce activity. The ninth month of the Muslim calendar is observed around the world as followers take the time to reflect and practice fasting, and cybersecurity teams often…
Key Lesson from Microsoft’s Password Spray Hack: Secure Every Account
In January 2024, Microsoft discovered they’d been the victim of a hack orchestrated by Russian-state hackers Midnight Blizzard (sometimes known as Nobelium). The concerning detail about this case is how easy it was to breach the software giant. It wasn’t a highly technical hack that exploited a zero-day vulnerability – the hackers used a simple…
Urgent: Apple Issues Critical Updates for Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws
Apple has released security updates to address several security flaws, including two vulnerabilities that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. The shortcomings are listed below – CVE-2024-23225 – A memory corruption issue in Kernel that an attacker with arbitrary kernel read and write capability can exploit to bypass kernel memory protections CVE-2024-23296…
Cisco Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Data Center OS
The first of the high-severity bugs, CVE-2024-20321, exists because External Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) traffic “is mapped to a shared hardware rate-limiter queue”, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send large amounts of traffic and cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. According to Cisco, under certain conditions, the security defect impacts Nexus 3600 series switches and…
Moscow Military Hackers Used Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability
A campaign by Russian military intelligence to convert Ubiquiti routers into a platform for a global cyberespionage operation began as early as 2022, U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies said. The U.S. federal government earlier this month disrupted a botnet built from hundreds of Ubiquiti routers by a hacking unit of Russian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate,…
Microsoft Outlook flaw opens door to 1-click remote code execution attacks
Microsoft released its batch of monthly security updates this month covering 73 vulnerabilities, including two zero-day flaws exploited in the wild. While organizations should prioritize all critical and high-risk issues, there is one critical vulnerability in Outlook that researchers claim could open the door to trivial attacks that result in remote code execution. Dubbed MonikerLink…
CISA adds Roundcube Webmail Persistent XSS bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Roundcube Webmail Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-43770, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Roundcube is an open-source web-based email client. It provides a user-friendly interface for accessing email accounts via a web browser. Users can send and receive emails, manage their…
CISA Orders Ivanti VPN Appliances Disconnected: What to Do
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies 48 hours to rip out all Ivanti appliances in use on federal networks, over concerns that multiple threat actors are actively exploiting multiple security flaws in these systems. The order is part of the supplemental direction accompanying last week’s…
PoC Exploits Heighten Risks Around Critical New Jenkins Vuln
Some 45,000 Internet-exposed Jenkins servers remain unpatched against a critical, recently disclosed arbitrary file-read vulnerability for which proof-of-exploit code is now publicly available. CVE-2024-23897 affects the built-in Jenkins command line interface (CLI) and can lead to remote code execution on affected systems. The Jenkins infrastructure team disclosed the vulnerability, and released updated version software, on…
