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Summary: Citrix has addressed a vulnerability in its NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances that allowed remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information from affected systems.
Threat Actor: Unknown | Unknown Victim: Citrix | Citrix
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Citrix has quietly patched a vulnerability in its NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances that allowed remote, unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive information from affected systems.…In a concerning development for cybersecurity, over 150 SSH accounts with root access are currently being advertised for sale on various hacker forums.
These accounts reportedly provide unrestricted administrative access to Virtual Private Servers (VPS), posing a significant threat to the security of the affected systems.…
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Executive SummaryUnit 42 researchers have discovered that the Muddled Libra group now actively targets software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and cloud service provider (CSP) environments. Organizations often store a variety of data in SaaS applications and use services from CSPs.…
Summary: CISA and the FBI are urging software companies to address path traversal security vulnerabilities in their products to prevent attackers from exploiting them and gaining unauthorized access or control over critical files and systems.
Threat Actor: Attackers exploiting path traversal vulnerabilities
Victim: Software companies
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Path traversal vulnerabilities, also known as directory traversal, can be exploited by attackers to manipulate file paths and access sensitive data or execute malicious code.…Summary: This content discusses the increase in financially motivated cyberattacks conducted by unidentified hackers associated with Russia in Ukraine.
Threat Actor: Unidentified hackers associated with Russia | unidentified hackers associated with Russia Victim: Ukraine | Ukraine
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There has been an increase in financially motivated cyberattacks in Ukraine conducted by previously unidentified hackers associated with Russia.…Summary: This content discusses the identification of vulnerabilities in Android apps from smartphone maker Xiaomi and Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP) by Oversecured, a business that scans mobile apps for security issues.
Threat Actor: Oversecured | Oversecured Victim: Xiaomi and Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP) | Xiaomi and Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP)
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Oversecured has identified more than two dozen vulnerabilities in Android apps from Xiaomi and Google’s AOSP.…Summary: This content discusses a path traversal-affiliated vulnerability pattern found in multiple popular Android applications, which could lead to arbitrary code execution and token theft.
Threat Actor: Microsoft | Microsoft Victim: Multiple popular Android applications | popular Android applications
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A path traversal-affiliated vulnerability pattern was discovered in multiple popular Android applications, allowing a malicious application to overwrite files in the vulnerable application’s home directory.…Summary: Vishing and deepfake phishing attacks are increasing as threat actors use GenAI to enhance social engineering tactics, making phishing more difficult to detect and deceive even the most aware users.
Threat Actor: Cybercriminals | Cybercriminals Victim: Individuals and organizations | Individuals and organizations
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Vishing and deepfake phishing attacks are on the rise as attackers leverage GenAI to amplify social engineering tactics.…An increasing number of threats have begun to leverage the Microsoft Graph API, usually to facilitate communications with command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure hosted on Microsoft cloud services.
The technique was most recently used in an attack against an organization in Ukraine, where a previously undocumented piece of malware used the Graph API to leverage Microsoft OneDrive for C&C purposes.…
Threat Actor: UndergroundDataLeaks | UndergroundDataLeaks Victim: Y. Hata & Co., Ltd., Cochrane International, and other global companies | Y. Hata & Co., Ltd., Cochrane International Price: Not specified Exfiltrated Data Type: Sensitive data from targeted networks
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UndergroundDataLeaks group operates differently from typical ransomware gangs.…Summary: The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a vulnerability in GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which allows for account takeover via Password Reset.
Threat Actor: N/A Victim: GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions | GitLab
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A vulnerability in GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions, tracked as CVE-2023-7028, allows for account takeover via Password Reset without any interaction.…Keypoints :
SocGholish is the leading malware, constituting 60% of the Top 10 Malware list.…SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team became aware of a fully unauthenticated server-side template injection vulnerability within CrushFTP, assessed its impact, and developed mitigation measures. CrushFTP is an enterprise file transfer tool. Such tools have seen increased attention from attackers over the last several years.…
Affected Platforms: D-Link DIR-645 Wired/Wireless Router Rev. Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlierImpacted Users: Any organizationImpact: Remote attackers gain control of the vulnerable systemsSeverity Level: High
In April, FortiGuard Labs observed a new botnet targeting a D-Link vulnerability from nearly a decade ago, CVE-2015-2051. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a GetDeviceSettings action on the HNAP interface.…
Summary: Island, a company in the enterprise browser market, has raised $175 million in Series D financing, bringing its valuation to $3 billion.
Threat Actor: N/A Victim: N/A
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Island has secured $175 million in Series D financing, led by new investor Coatue and existing investor Sequoia Capital.…Summary: The content discusses a recently patched vulnerability in the open source R programming language that could allow arbitrary code execution.
Threat Actor: N/A
Victim: N/A
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The vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-27322, can be exploited by loading a malicious RDS file or integrating a poisoned R package into an R-based project.…On April 11, 2024, BlackBerry released a new blog detailing a new VirusTotal upload of the LightSpy mobile spyware framework. BlackBerry stated that this malware was an iOS implant, yet Huntress researchers discovered that, although the uploaded samples appear novel, they aren’t actually targeting iOS at all.…
A few weeks ago a critical vulnerability was discovered in the plugin WP‑Automatic. This vulnerability, a SQL injection (SQLi) flaw, poses a severe threat as attackers can exploit it to gain unauthorized access to websites, create admin‑level user accounts, upload malicious files, and potentially take full control of affected sites.…
A sophisticated cyberattack campaign leveraging Agent Tesla and Taskun malware has been actively targeting the education and government sectors in the U.S. This blog post delves into the intricacies of their deployment methods, the vulnerabilities they exploit, and the broader implications for cybersecurity defenses.
IntroductionRecent investigations have unveiled a coordinated attack that integrates two notorious malware types, Agent Tesla and Taskun.…
Summary: This content discusses two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor in Intel processors, which could potentially compromise billions of processors currently in use.
Threat Actor: Researchers from the University of California San Diego, Purdue University, Georgia Tech, the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Google.…