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Jan 31, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Linux
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the runC command line tool that could be exploited by threat actors to escape the bounds of the container and stage follow-on attacks.
The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-21626, CVE-2024-23651, CVE-2024-23652, and CVE-2024-23653, have been collectively dubbed Leaky Vessels by cybersecurity vendor Snyk.…
Jan 31, 2024NewsroomCryptocurrency / Cybersecurity
A financially motivated threat actor known as UNC4990 is leveraging weaponized USB devices as an initial infection vector to target organizations in Italy.
Google-owned Mandiant said the attacks single out multiple industries, including health, transportation, construction, and logistics.…
The SEC isn’t giving SaaS a free pass. Applicable public companies, known as “registrants,” are now subject to cyber incident disclosure and cybersecurity readiness requirements for data stored in SaaS systems, along with the 3rd and 4th party apps connected to them.…
Jan 31, 2024NewsroomCyber Crime / Hacking News
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to the “democratization” of the phishing ecosystem owing to the emergence of Telegram as an epicenter for cybercrime, enabling threat actors to mount a mass attack for as little as $230.…
Jan 31, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Zero Day
Ivanti is alerting of two new high-severity flaws in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, one of which is said to have come under targeted exploitation in the wild.
The list of vulnerabilities is as follows –
CVE-2024-21888 (CVSS score: 8.8) – A privilege escalation vulnerability in the web component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows a user to elevate privileges to that of an administrator
CVE-2024-21893 (CVSS score: 8.2) – A server-side request forgery vulnerability in the SAML component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x), Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Neurons for ZTA allows an attacker to access certain restricted resources without authentication
The Utah-based software company said it found no evidence of customers being impacted by CVE-2024-21888 so far, but acknowledged “the exploitation of CVE-2024-21893 appears to be targeted.”
It further noted that it “expects the threat actor to change their behavior and we expect a sharp increase in exploitation once this information is public.”
In tandem to the public disclosure of the two new vulnerabilities, Ivanti has released fixes for Connect Secure versions 9.1R14.4, 9.1R17.2, 9.1R18.3, 22.4R2.2 and 22.5R1.1, and ZTA version 22.6R1.3.…
Jan 31, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Endpoint Security
Malicious local attackers can obtain full root access on Linux machines by taking advantage of a newly disclosed security flaw in the GNU C library (aka glibc).
Tracked as CVE-2023-6246, the heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability is rooted in glibc’s __vsyslog_internal() function, which is used by syslog() and vsyslog() for system logging purposes.…
Jan 31, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Network Security
A pair of recently disclosed zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) virtual private network (VPN) devices have been exploited to deliver a Rust-based payload called KrustyLoader that’s used to drop the open-source Sliver adversary simulation tool.…
Jan 30, 2024NewsroomMalware / Cyber Threat
Threat hunters have identified a new campaign that delivers the ZLoader malware, resurfacing nearly two years after the botnet’s infrastructure was dismantled in April 2022.
A new variant of the malware is said to have been in development since September 2023, Zscaler ThreatLabz said in an analysis published this month.…
Jan 30, 2024NewsroomGenerative AI / Data Privacy
Italy’s data protection authority (DPA) has notified ChatGPT-maker OpenAI of supposedly violating privacy laws in the region.
“The available evidence pointed to the existence of breaches of the provisions contained in the E.U. GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation],” the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (aka the Garante) said in a statement on Monday.…
Each New Year introduces a new set of challenges and opportunities for strengthening our cybersecurity posture. It’s the nature of the field – the speed at which malicious actors carry out advanced persistent threats brings a constant, evolving battle for cyber resilience.…
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