Adding to the list of critical Citrix NetScaler zero-days, security researchers warn of a new dangerous vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966) continuously exploited in the wild despite a patch issued in October. Marked as an information-disclosure flaw, CVE-2023-4966 enables threat actors to hijack existing authenticated sessions and potentially result in a multifactor authentication (MFA) bypass. According to security […]
Hard on the heels of a new surge in the long-running Balada Injector campaign exploiting CVE-2023-3169, another critical security bug in popular software products comes to the spotlight. A new privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Cisco IOS XE software is actively exploited in the wild to help install implants on the impacted devices. The uncovered zero-day […]
Over a month ago, defenders warned the peer community of CVE-2023-4634, a critical WordPress vulnerability actively exploited in the wild and impacting an overwhelming number of WordPress sites across the globe. Following that campaign, another malicious operation comes to the forefront. A fresh surge in the long-lasting Balada Injector malware campaign has already impacted over […]
Atlassian has recently notified defenders of a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in its Confluence software. The uncovered issue identified as CVE-2023-22515 poses severe risks to impacted Confluence installations as it is actively weaponized by attackers. Detect CVE-2023-22515 Exploits With the ever-increasing numbers of CVEs leveraged in real-world attacks, proactive detection of vulnerability exploitation remains one […]
Hot on the heels of the adversary campaigns abusing the CVE-2023-29357 vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server causing a pre-auth RCE chain, another security flaw that can enable attackers to perform RCE causes a stir in the cyber threatscape. A critical vulnerability in the JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD server tracked as CVE-2023-42793 allows adversaries to gain RCE on […]
Threat actors frequently set eyes on Microsoft SharePoint Server products by weaponizing a set of RCE vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2022-29108 and CVE-2022-26923. In the early summer of 2023, Microsoft issued a patch for the newly discovered SharePoint Server elevation of privilege vulnerability known as CVE-2023-29357 and considered critical. With the CVE-2023-29357 PoC exploit recently released, […]
The new Microsoft Windows Themes security bug tracked as CVE-2023-38146, which enables attackers to perform RCE, emerges in the cyber threat arena. The proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for this vulnerability, also known as “ThemeBleed,” has recently been released on GitHub, posing a threat to potentially infected Windows instances and arresting the attention of defenders. CVE-2023-38146 Detection […]
Security researchers have issued a stark warning about a critical vulnerability, designated as CVE-2023-4634, which is affecting an alarming number of over 70,000 WordPress sites globally. This vulnerability originates from a security flaw in the WordPress Media Library Assistant Plugin, an extremely popular and widely used plugin within the WordPress community. With this vulnerability already […]
The financial sector, the keystone of the global economy, has become increasingly digitized in recent years. While this transformation brings efficiency and convenience, it also exposes financial institutions to many cybersecurity challenges. Threat actors, ranging from sophisticated hacker groups to opportunistic individuals, are constantly targeting the financial sector, seeking to exploit vulnerabilities for financial gain. […]
The UAC-0057 hacking collective, aka GhostWriter, reemerges in the cyber threat arena by abusing a WinRAR zero-day tracked as CVE-2023-38831 that has been exploited in the wild since April through August 2023. The successful exploitation of CVE-2023-38831 enables attackers to infect the targeted systems with a PicassoLoader variant and Cobalt Strike Beacon malware. Notably, both […]