Cybersecurity

SEC Investigating Progress Software Over MOVEit Hack

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is launching its own investigation into the vulnerability in Progress Software’s MOVEit transfer tool that exposed data from more than 2,000 organizations and 60 million individuals. Tracked as CVE-2023-34362, the flaw was exploited as a zero-day by the notorious Russia-linked Cl0p ransomware group to steal data from organizations using […]

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Critical Heap Overflow Vulnerability in Curl Fixed After a Week Long Wait | Cyware Hacker News

Executive Summary On October 4, a high-severity security vulnerability was reported and fixed in curl. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-38545, was associated with a severe heap overflow during the SOCKS5 proxy handshake process, impacting both the libcurl and the curl tool.  This article whirls around a detailed analysis of the issue, its cause, its potential risks, and […]

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Balada Injector Targets Unpatched tagDiv Plugin, Newspaper Theme & WordPress Admins

In the middle of September 2023, vulnerability advisory resources disclosed the details of an Unauthenticated Stored XSS vulnerability in the tagDiv Composer (the companion plugin for the popular tagDiv premium themes Newspaper and Newsmag). Shortly after that, we started noticing new waves of Balada malware injections on websites that were actively using tagDiv themes. This […]

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Cyber Mavens Slam Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act

Governance & Risk Management , Legislation & Litigation , Patch Management Experts Warn Vulnerability Disclosure to Government Agencies Increases Hacking Risk Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • October 4, 2023     Image: Shutterstock More than four dozen cybersecurity mavens say a proposed European Union mandate for software publishers to inform the trading bloc’s cybersecurity agency of […]

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Looney Tunables: New Linux Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation on Major Distributions

Oct 04, 2023THNEndpoint Security / Vulnerability A new Linux security vulnerability dubbed Looney Tunables has been discovered in the GNU C library’s ld.so dynamic loader that, if successfully exploited, could lead to a local privilege escalation and allow a threat actor to gain root privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-4911 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue is a […]