CISA

Network Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Russian nation-state hackers have exploited a recent Microsoft email compromise to steal the emails of government agencies, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has reiterated in a new alert. The warning ordered agencies to urgently check their email systems for signs of compromise and report back by April 30 if they believe specific…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Global law-enforcement authorities including the FBI have disrupted the activities of the formidable LockBit ransomware gang, taking control of its platform and seizing data associated with its global ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. Information obtained by the operation — called Operation Cronos — includes source code, details of ransomware victims, stolen data, decryption keys, and the amount…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Affairs

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…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: SecurityWeek

“[We] have confirmed that Volt Typhoon has compromised the IT environments of multiple critical infrastructure organizations in the continental and non-continental United States and its territories, including Guam,” CISA said in an advisory, warning that the hacking team’s choice of targets and pattern of behavior is not consistent with traditional cyber espionage or intelligence gathering…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

AnyDesk, which provides a remote desktop application providing access, file transfer, and VPN functionality for endpoints, has announced that its production systems have been compromised, and that it plans to revoke all its security-related certificates and reset all Web portal passwords as a precaution. The company assured its customers in a statement released late on…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

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…

News

Issued by: Dark Reading

Critical infrastructure in multiple US states may have been compromised by Iran-affiliated attackers targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs). A warning from the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Israel National Cyber Directorate comes after an attack was detected on a Pennsylvania water authority…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: DataBreach Today

U.S. federal agencies have until Dec. 12 to patch vulnerable Linux devices on their networks after researchers discovered an actively exploited security flaw. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added the “Looney Tunables” vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-4911, to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities Tuesday and mandated federal civilian branch agencies to download patches to…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

On October 10, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updated the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog with five known software flaws. At the top of the list: A use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe’s Acrobat and Reader PDF-viewing applications that could allow code execution with the privileges of any user that clicked on a malicious file….