Critical Bugs in Control Web Panel Expose Linux Servers to RCE Attacks

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Researchers have disclosed details of two critical security vulnerabilities in Control Web Panel that could be abused as part of an exploit chain to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution on affected servers. Tracked as CVE-2021-45467, the issue concerns a case …

Hackers Planted Secret Backdoor in Dozens of WordPress Plugins and Themes

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In yet another instance of software supply chain attack, dozens of WordPress themes and plugins hosted on a developer’s website were backdoored with malicious code in the first half of September 2021 with the goal of infecting further sites. The …

Interpol Busted 11 Members of Nigerian BEC Cybercrime Gang

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A coordinated law enforcement operation has resulted in the arrest of 11 members allegedly belonging to a Nigerian cybercrime gang notorious for perpetrating business email compromise (BEC) attacks targeting more than 50,000 victims in recent years. The disruption of the …

Google Details Two Zero-Day Bugs Reported in Zoom Clients and MMR Servers

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An exploration of zero-click attack surface for the popular video conferencing solution Zoom has yielded two previously undisclosed security vulnerabilities that could have been exploited to crash the service, execute malicious code, and even leak arbitrary areas of its memory. …

Cisco Issues Patch for Critical RCE Vulnerability in RCM for StarOS Software

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Cisco Systems has rolled out fixes for a critical security flaw affecting Redundancy Configuration Manager (RCM) for Cisco StarOS Software that could be weaponized by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and take over vulnerable machines. Tracked as CVE-2022-20649 (CVSS …

DoNot Hacking Team Targeting Government and Military Entities in South Asia

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A threat actor with potential links to an Indian cybersecurity company has been nothing if remarkably persistent in its attacks against military organizations based in South Asia, including Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, since at least September 2020 by deploying …

Cyber Threat Protection — It All Starts with Visibility

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Just as animals use their senses to detect danger, cybersecurity depends on sensors to identify signals in the computing environment that may signal danger. The more highly tuned, diverse and coordinated the senses, the more likely one is to detect …

Russian Hackers Heavily Using Malicious Traffic Direction System to Distribute Malware

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Potential connections between a subscription-based crimeware-as-a-service (Caas) solution and a cracked copy of Cobalt Strike have been established in what the researchers suspect is being offered as a tool for its customers to stage post-exploitation activities. Prometheus, as the service …

Microsoft: Hackers Exploiting New SolarWinds Serv-U Bug Related to Log4j Attacks

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Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed details of a new security vulnerability in SolarWinds Serv-U software that it said was being weaponized by threat actors to propagate attacks leveraging the Log4j flaws to compromise targets. Tracked as CVE-2021-35247 (CVSS score: 5.3), the issue is …

New BHUNT Password Stealer Malware Targeting Cryptocurrency Wallets

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A new evasive crypto wallet stealer named BHUNT has been spotted in the wild with the goal of financial gain, adding to a list of digital currency stealing malware such as CryptBot, Redline Stealer, and WeSteal. “BHUNT is a modular stealer written …