State-sponsored hackers acting on behalf of the Beijing government have been organizing offensive operations aimed at collecting intelligence and launching destructive campaigns against the US and global organizations for years, with multiple observed attacks being related to such groups as Mustang Panda or APT41. The latest joint alert by the intelligence agencies of the US, […]
Hot on the heels of the critical CVE-2024-0204 vulnerability disclosure in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT software, another critical flaw arrests the attention of cyber defenders. Recently, Jenkins developers have addressed nine security bugs affecting the open-source automation server, including a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-23897 that can lead to RCE upon its successful exploitation. With PoCs […]
Another day, another critical vulnerability on the radar. This time, it’s a critical authentication bypass (CVE-2024-0204) affecting Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT software, which is largely used by enterprises globally for secure file transfer purposes. Hot on the heels of the nefarious flaw in Atlassian’s Confluence Server and Data Center, CVE-2024-0204 might be promptly added to the […]
Adversaries carry out high-profile in-the-wild attacks by weaponizing RCE vulnerabilities impacting Atlassian Confluence servers. A newly uncovered RCE vulnerability in the Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server has been observed under active exploitation just a few days after its discovery. The critical flaw tracked as CVE-2023-22527 with the highest possible CVSS score of 10.0 affects […]
This time security researchers report a malicious campaign leveraging a now-patched Windows SmartScreen flaw (CVE-2023-36025) to drop the Phemedrone payload. Phemedrone is an open-source information stealer capable of siphoning data from crypto wallets, chatting apps, popular software, and more. Detect Phemedrom Stealer With over 1 billion malware samples circulating in the cyber domain, security professionals […]
Critical zero-day vulnerabilities impacting external-facing systems pose severe threats to multiple organizations that rely on them, exposing them to risks of RCE and system compromise, just like the active exploitation of the FortiOS SSL-VPN flaw caused havoc in January 2023. Recently, Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups have been observed exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2023-46805 […]
At the end of November 2023, leading U.S. cybersecurity agencies, in collaboration with international partners, issued an alert covering LockBit 3.0 ransomware attacks as part of their #StopRansomware effort aimed at boosting cybersecurity awareness. Recently, another joint Cybersecurity Advisory came out aimed at notifying defenders of the ongoing attacks by the Play ransomware group. In […]
FBI and CISA, in conjunction with U.S. and international cybersecurity authorities, warn the global cyber defender community about large-scale exploitation of CVE-2023-42793, a critical JetBrains TeamCity CVE potentially leading to RCE on the vulnerable instances. The related cybersecurity alert AA23-347A attributes the ongoing cyber-offensive operations to the russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) represented by the […]
Сritical vulnerabilities in popular open-source software solutions pose severe threats to global businesses that rely on the impacted products. Recently, another critical security flaw was identified in Apache OFBiz, an open-source enterprise resource planning system mainly used by large-scale businesses with over 10,000 of employees. The uncovered flaw is a pre-auth vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-49070 […]
Adversaries set their eyes on a notorious security flaw in Log4j Java Library tracked as CVE-2021-44228, aka Log4Shell, even a couple of years after its disclosure. A new campaign dubbed “Operation Blacksmith” involves the exploitation of the Log4Shell vulnerability to deploy new malicious strains written in DLang, including novel RATs. The North Korean APT Lazarus […]