Another day, another critical RCE making rounds in the cyberthreat arena. This time security practitioners are urged to patch ASAP against a critical remote code execution bug (CVE-2022-47966) affecting multiple Zoho ManageEngine products. Since the proof of concept (PoC) exploit was publicly released last week, experts have observed a huge spike of in-the-wild attacks leveraging […]
Stay alert! Security researchers are warning the global cyber defender community of a zero-day vulnerability in FortiOS SSL-VPN, which was patched in December 2022. The security flaw tracked as CVE-2022-42475 and resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against government agencies and large organizations across the globe. Detect CVE-2022-42475: […]
On December 20, 2022, cybersecurity researchers uncovered a novel exploit method dubbed OWASSRF that involves chaining CVE-2022-41080 and CVE-2022-41082 vulnerabilities to gain RCE through privilege escalation via Outlook Web Access (OWA). OWASSRF is capable of bypassing ProxyNotShell mitigations. Cyber defenders highlight that these ongoing attacks pose a threat to an increasing number of Microsoft Exchange […]
Security experts from Qualys’ Threat Research Unit warn of a novel vulnerability (CVE-2022-3328) in Snapd, a popular software management tool for Linux, that might be exploited for local privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution. The security issue in the spotlight can be chained with older vulnerabilities revealed in multipathd (CVE-2022-41973 & CVE-2022-41974) to escalate privileges […]
Due to a constantly evolving number of vulnerabilities affecting open-source software products, proactive detection of vulnerability exploitation remains one of the most common security use cases according to the latest SOC Prime’s Detection as Code Innovation report. At the turn of November 2022, a couple of new vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL software library identified as […]
Another day, another exploit emerges in the wild to cause a headache for security practitioners. VMware warns of a public exploit code available for a recently-patched critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2021-39144) in VMware Cloud Foundation and NSX Manager. Leveraging this flaw, unauthenticated threat actors might execute the malicious code with the highest system […]
Threat actors don’t sleep, and cyber defenders cannot sleep a wink either to keep up with emerging threats. In 2022, a wave of critical “shell” vulnerabilities has been flooding the cyber threat arena, starting with the loud appearance of Log4Shell at the turn of the year, followed by Spring4Shell in March, then ProxyNotShell just one […]
Heads up! A new critical vulnerability is on the radar. Fortinet has recently disclosed an authentication bypass vulnerability in its FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager appliances. The security flaw tracked as CVE-2022-40684 is actively exploited in the wild, posing a serious risk to Fortinet’s customers leveraging vulnerable product instances. Detect CVE-2022-40684 Exploitation Attempts In view of […]
BlackByte ransomware reemerges in the cyber threat arena exploiting a security flaw in legitimate drivers to disable EDR products on compromised devices. Cybersecurity researchers have revealed that ransomware operators apply an advanced adversary technique dubbed “Bring Your Own Driver” enabling them to bypass security products and spread infection on vulnerable machines. Detect BlackByte Ransomware Used […]
Stay on alert! Cybersecurity researchers have recently revealed new Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities aka ProxyNotShell tracked as CVE-2022-41040 and CVE-2022-41082 that are currently actively exploited in the wild. The newly uncovered bugs in Microsoft Exchange Server can be paired together in the exploit chain to spread Chinese Chopper web shells on the targeted servers. According […]