Atlassian addressed multiple vulnerabilities in its Bamboo, Bitbucket, Confluence, and Jira products. The most severe vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1597 (CVSS score of 10), is a SQL injection flaw that impacts the org.postgresql:postgresql third-party dependency of Bamboo Data Center and Server.

“This org.postgresql:postgresql Dependency vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 10 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H could allow an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability, and requires no user interaction.”…

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A threat actor has unveiled “Hell Paradise,” an online platform offering access to vulnerable government websites and associated data, organized by country. The actor has categorized vulnerabilities and data by country, with an initial listing of 49 nations. Currently, there are over 1000 vulnerable government sites available, categorized into three groups: Vulnerabilities, Exposed Git repositories, and Exposed Environment files.…

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In late 2023, I wrote an article comparing how well ChatGPT and Google Bard handle writing security policies. Given that ChatGPT 4.0 has been available as a paid version, called ChatGPT Plus, for some time now, and Google recently rebranded Google Bard as Gemini (with Gemini Advanced available as paid offering), it’s a good time to compare how the two perform in a head-to-head of the top 10 use cases for information security professionals.…

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Mar 14, 2024The Hacker NewsVulnerability / Network Security

Fortinet has warned of a critical security flaw impacting its FortiClientEMS software that could allow attackers to achieve code execution on affected systems.

“An improper neutralization of special elements used in an SQL Command (‘SQL Injection’) vulnerability [CWE-89] in FortiClientEMS may allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via specifically crafted requests,” the company said in an advisory.…

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Fortinet patched a critical vulnerability in its FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (EMS) software that can allow attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable servers.

FortiClient EMS enables admins to manage endpoints connected to an enterprise network, allowing them to deploy FortiClient software and assign security profiles on Windows devices.…

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QNAP warns of vulnerabilities in its NAS software products, including QTS, QuTS hero, QuTScloud, and myQNAPcloud, that could allow attackers to access devices.

The Taiwanese Network Attached Storage (NAS) device maker disclosed three vulnerabilities that can lead to an authentication bypass, command injection, and SQL injection.

While the last two require the attackers to be authenticated on the target system, which significantly lessens the risk, the first (CVE-2024-21899) can be executed remotely without authentication and is marked as “low complexity.”…

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A worm that uses clever prompt engineering and injection is able to trick generative AI (GenAI) apps like ChatGPT into propagating malware and more.

In a laboratory setting, three Israeli researchers demonstrated how an attacker could design “adversarial self-replicating prompts” that convince a generative model into replicating input as output – if a malicious prompt comes in, the model will turn around and push it back out, allowing it to spread to further AI agents.…

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More than 350 ecommerce stores infected with malware in a single day.

Today our global crawler discovered 374 ecommerce stores infected with the same strain of malware. 370 of these stores load the malware via https://naturalfreshmall[.]com/image/pixel[.]js.

— Sansec (@sansecio) January 25, 2022

Last week Sansec’s Early Breach Detection Network detected a mass breach of over 500 web stores running the Magento 1 ecommerce platform.…

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Researcher from Palo Alto Networks, a computer security firm, have found out that hackers, who have targeting jail-broken iPhones, have raided more than 225,000 Apple accounts, using them for app buying sprees or to hold phones for ransom.The jailbreak is a tool in iPhones to use additional iThing tweaks available through the alternative Cydia store, and for some to pirate software by installing ripped-off apps for free.…
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