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Remote Encryption Attacks Surge: How One Vulnerable Device Can Spell Disaster

Dec 20, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Data Breach Ransomware groups are increasingly switching to remote encryption in their attacks, marking a new escalation in tactics adopted by financially motivated actors to ensure the success of their campaigns. “Companies can have thousands of computers connected to their network, and with remote ransomware, all it takes is one […]

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Urgent: VMware Warns of Unpatched Critical Cloud Director Vulnerability

Nov 15, 2023NewsroomNetwork Securit / Vulnerability VMware is warning of a critical and unpatched security flaw in Cloud Director that could be exploited by a malicious actor to get around authentication protections. Tracked as CVE-2023-34060 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability impacts instances that have been upgraded to version 10.5 from an older version. “On an […]

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Critical Flaws Discovered in Veeam ONE IT Monitoring Software – Patch Now

Nov 07, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Vulnerability Veeam has released security updates to address four flaws in its ONE IT monitoring and analytics platform, two of which are rated critical in severity. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2023-38547 (CVSS score: 9.9) – An unspecified flaw that can be leveraged by an unauthenticated user […]

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F5 Issues Warning: BIG-IP Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution

Oct 27, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Vulnerability F5 has alerted customers of a critical security vulnerability impacting BIG-IP that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The issue, rooted in the configuration utility component, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-46747, and carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. “This vulnerability […]

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F5 Issues Warning: BIG-IP Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution

Oct 27, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Vulnerability F5 has alerted customers of a critical security vulnerability impacting BIG-IP that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The issue, rooted in the configuration utility component, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-46747, and carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. “This vulnerability […]

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Record-Breaking 100 Million RPS DDoS Attack Exploits HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Flaw

Oct 26, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Cyber Attack Cloudflare on Thursday said it mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that exploited a recently disclosed flaw called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, 89 of which exceeded 100 million requests per second (RPS). “The campaign contributed to an overall increase of 65% in HTTP DDoS attack traffic […]

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Cisco Releases Urgent Patch to Fix Critical Flaw in Emergency Responder Systems

Oct 05, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Software Patch Cisco has released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Emergency Responder that allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to sign into susceptible systems using hard-coded credentials. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20101 (CVSS score: 9.8), is due to the presence of static user credentials for the root account that […]