Brokenwire Hack Could Let Remote Attackers Disrupt Charging for Electric Vehicles

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A group of academics from the University of Oxford and Armasuisse S+T has disclosed details of a new attack technique against the popular Combined Charging System (CCS) that could potentially …

Beastmode DDoS Botnet Exploiting New TOTOLINK Bugs to Enslave More Routers

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A variant of the Mirai botnet called Beastmode has been observed adopting newly disclosed vulnerabilities in TOTOLINK routers between February and March 2022 to infect unpatched devices and expand its …

GitLab Releases Patch for Critical Vulnerability That Could Let Attackers Hijack Accounts

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DevOps platform GitLab has released software updates to address a critical security vulnerability that, if potentially exploited, could permit an adversary to seize control of accounts. Tracked as CVE-2022-1162, the issue …

15-Year-Old Bug in PEAR PHP Repository Could’ve Enabled Supply Chain Attacks

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A 15-year-old security vulnerability has been disclosed in the PEAR PHP repository that could permit an attacker to carry out a supply chain attack, including obtaining unauthorized access to publish …

Results Overview: 2022 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation – Wizard Spider and Sandworm Edition

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Threat actor groups like Wizard Spider and Sandworm have been wreaking havoc over the past few years – developing and deploying cybercrime tools like Conti, Trickbot, and Ryuk ransomware. Most …

Chinese Hackers Target VMware Horizon Servers with Log4Shell to Deploy Rootkit

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A Chinese advanced persistent threat tracked as Deep Panda has been observed exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to deploy a backdoor and a novel rootkit on infected machines with …

Critical Bugs in Rockwell PLC Could Allow Hackers to Implant Malicious Code

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Two new security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Rockwell Automation’s programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and engineering workstation software that could be exploited by an attacker to inject malicious code on …

Russian Wiper Malware Likely Behind Recent Cyberattack on Viasat KA-SAT Modems

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The cyberattack aimed at Viasat that temporarily knocked KA-SAT modems offline on February 24, 2022, the same day Russian military forces invaded Ukraine, is believed to have been the consequence …

Apple Issues Patches for 2 Actively Exploited Zero-Days in iPhone, iPad and Mac Devices

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Apple on Thursday rolled out emergency patches to address two zero-day flaws in its mobile and desktop operating systems that it said may have been exploited in the wild. The shortcomings have been fixed …