Cloudflare Saw Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaking at 26 Million Request Per Second

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Ravie Lakshmanan Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week, making it the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The web performance and …

Technical Details Released for ‘SynLapse’ RCE Vulnerability Reported in Microsoft Azure

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Microsoft has incorporated additional improvements to address the recently disclosed SynLapse security vulnerability in order to meet comprehensive tenant isolation requirements in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Pipelines. The latest safeguards include moving the shared integration runtimes to sandboxed …

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Issues Fix for Actively Exploited ‘Follina’ Vulnerability

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Microsoft officially released fixes to address an actively exploited Windows zero-day vulnerability known as Follina as part of its Patch Tuesday updates. Also addressed by the tech giant are 55 other flaws, three of which are rated Critical, 51 are …

Unpatched Travis CI API Bug Exposes Thousands of Secret User Access Tokens

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June 14, 2022Ravie Lakshmanan An unpatched security issue in the Travis CI API has left tens of thousands of developers’ user tokens exposed to potential attacks, effectively allowing threat actors to breach cloud infrastructures, make unauthorized code changes, and initiate …

New Zimbra Email Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Steal Your Login Credentials

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June 14, 2022Ravie Lakshmanan A new high-severity vulnerability has been disclosed in the Zimbra email suite that, if successfully exploited, enables an unauthenticated attacker to steal cleartext passwords of users sans any user interaction. “With the consequent access to the …

What is the Essential Eight (And Why Non-Aussies Should Care)

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June 14, 2022The Hacker News In 2017, The Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) published a set of mitigation strategies that were designed to help organizations to protect themselves against cyber security incidents. These strategies, which became known as the Essential …

Researchers Disclose Rooting Backdoor in Mitel IP Phones for Businesses

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two medium-security flaws in Mitel 6800/6900 desk phones that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to gain root privileges on the devices. Tracked as CVE-2022-29854 and CVE-2022-29855 (CVSS score: 6.8), the access control …

Chinese Hackers Distribute Backdoored Web3 Wallets for iOS and Android Users

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A technically sophisticated threat actor known as SeaFlower has been targeting Android and iOS users as part of an extensive campaign that mimics official cryptocurrency wallet websites intending to distribute backdoored apps that drain victims’ funds. Said to be first …

Chinese ‘Gallium’ Hackers Using New PingPull Malware in Cyberespionage Attacks

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June 13, 2022Ravie Lakshmanan A Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Gallium has been observed using a previously undocumented remote access trojan in its espionage attacks targeting companies operating in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. Called PingPull, the “difficult-to-detect” …

HelloXD Ransomware Installing Backdoor on Targeted Windows and Linux Systems

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June 13, 2022Ravie Lakshmanan Windows and Linux systems are being targeted by a ransomware variant called HelloXD, with the infections also involving the deployment of a backdoor to facilitate persistent remote access to infected hosts. “Unlike other ransomware groups, this …