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Cybersecurity

U.K. and U.S. Sanction 11 Russia-based Trickbot Cybercrime Gang Members

Sep 08, 2023THNCybercrime / Malware The U.K. and U.S. governments on Thursday sanctioned 11 individuals who are alleged to be part of the notorious Russia-based TrickBot cybercrime gang. “Russia has long been a safe haven for cybercriminals, including the TrickBot group,” the U.S. Treasury Department said, adding it has “ties to Russian intelligence services and […]

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Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerability in BroadWorks Platform

Cisco on Wednesday announced patches for a critical-severity vulnerability in the BroadWorks Application Delivery Platform and BroadWorks Xtended Services Platform. Tracked as CVE-2023-20238, the vulnerability affecting the BroadWorks calling and collaboration platform was identified in the single sign-on (SSO) implementation and could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to forge credentials and access affected systems. […]

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Cisco Finds 8 Vulnerabilities in OAS Industrial IoT Data Platform

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Open Automation Software (OAS) Platform can be exploited to bypass authentication, leak sensitive information, and overwrite files, Cisco warns. Enabling communication and data transfer between servers, industrial control systems (ICS), IoT, and other types of devices, the OAS Platform is typically used in industrial operations and enterprise environments. It also supports […]

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CISA Releases Guidance on Adopting DDoS Mitigations

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released new guidance to help federal agencies adopt distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) mitigations. DDoS attacks are a type of cyberattack in which threat actors flood a server or network with internet traffic, exhausting its resources and rendering the target inaccessible. Meant to help federal agencies prevent “large-scale […]

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Two flaws in Apache SuperSet allow to remotely hack servers

Two flaws in Apache SuperSet allow to remotely hack servers Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2023 A couple of security vulnerabilities in Apache SuperSet could be exploited by an attacker to gain remote code execution on vulnerable systems. Apache Superset is an open-source Data Visualization and Data Exploration Platform, it is written in Python and based on the […]

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North Korean Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Bug to Target Cybersecurity Researchers

Sep 08, 2023THNZero Day / Cyber Attack Threat actors associated with North Korea are continuing to target the cybersecurity community using a zero-day bug in unspecified software over the past several weeks to infiltrate their machines. The findings come from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which found the adversary setting up fake accounts on social […]

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CISA Warning: Nation-State Hackers Exploit Fortinet and Zoho Vulnerabilities

Sep 08, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Exploit The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday warned that multiple nation-state actors are exploiting security flaws in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN and Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus to gain unauthorized access and establish persistence on compromised systems. “Nation-state advanced persistent threat (APT) actors exploited CVE-2022-47966 to gain unauthorized […]

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Apple Rushes to Patch Zero-Day Flaws Exploited for Pegasus Spyware on iPhones

Sep 08, 2023THNSpyware / Vulnerability Apple on Thursday released emergency security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to address two zero-day flaws that have been exploited in the wild to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware. The issues are described as below – CVE-2023-41061 – A validation issue in Wallet that could result in […]