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EV Charging Infrastructure Offers an Electric Cyberattack Opportunity

Issued by: Dark Reading

As electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure rushes to keep pace with the dramatic rise in sales of electric vehicles in the United States, cyberattackers and security researchers alike have already started focusing on security weaknesses in the infrastructure. In February, researchers with energy-network cybersecurity firm Saiflow discovered two vulnerabilities in the Open Charge Point Protocol…

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Companies urged to patch critical vulnerability in Fortinet FortiNAC

Issued by: CSO Online

Proof-of-concept exploit code is now available for a critical vulnerability in Fortinet FortiNAC appliances and attackers have already started using it in the wild. Users are advised to patch their systems as soon as possible. FortiNAC is a zero-trust network access solution that can be deployed both as a hardware device or as a virtual…

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Experts released VMware vRealize Log RCE exploit for CVE-2022-31706

Issued by: Security Affairs

Last week, researchers from Horizon3’s Attack Team announced the release of PoC exploit code for remote code execution in VMware vRealize Log tracked as CVE-2022-31706 (CVSS base 9.8/10). The PoC exploit code will trigger a series of flaws in VMware vRealize Log to achieve remote code execution on vulnerable installs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs…

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Critical Vulnerability Impacts Over 120 Lexmark Printers

Issued by: Security Week

The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-23560 (CVSS score of 9.0), is described as a server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw in the Web Services feature of newer Lexmark devices, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code. “Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to an attacker being able to remotely execute arbitrary code on a device,”…

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Critical bug in Cisco EoL Small Business Routers will receive no patch

Issued by: Security Affairs

Cisco is warning of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20025 (CVSS score of 9.0), that impacts small business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers. The IT giant announced that these devices will receive no security updates to address the bug because they have reached end of life (EoL). The flaw is an authentication bypass issue…

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Open source vulnerabilities add to security debt

Issued by: Help Net Security

The number of open source vulnerabilities that Mend identified and added to its vulnerability database in the first nine months of 2022 was 33 percent greater than the first nine months of 2021, reflecting both the growth in the number of published open-source packages and the acceleration of vulnerabilities. As businesses continue to heavily rely…

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A year later, Log4Shell still lingers

Issued by: Help Net Security

72% of organizations remain vulnerable to the Log4Shell vulnerability as of October 1, 2022, Tenable‘s latest telemetry study has revealed, based on data collected from over 500 million tests. A vulnerability that’s difficult to eradicate When Log4Shell was discovered in December 2021, organizations around the world scrambled to determine their risk. In the weeks following…

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Cyber-Threat Group Targets Critical RCE Vulnerability in ‘Bleed You’ Campaign

Issued by: Dark Reading

The “Bleed You” campaign is trying to take advantage of a known remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol Extensions, and more than 1,000 systems are unpatched and vulnerable to compromise. The critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-34721, has been under active attack since September, a new report from Cyfirma warns,…

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A flaw in ConnectWise Control spurred the company to make life harder for scammers

Issued by: Help Net Security

A vulnerability in popular remote access service/platform ConnectWise Control could have been leveraged by scammers to make compromising targets’ computers easier, Guardio researchers have discovered. By abusing the fully-featured 14-day trial option for that hosted cloud service, scammers are already taking advantage of the platform at no cost, but the vulnerability could have allowed them…

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Transportation sector targeted by both ransomware and APTs

Issued by: Help Net Security

Trellix released The Threat Report: Fall 2022 from its Advanced Research Center, which analyzes cybersecurity trends from the third quarter (Q3) of 2022. The report includes evidence of malicious activity linked to ransomware and nation-state backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actors. It examines malicious cyberactivity including threats to email, the malicious use of legitimate third-party…