Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

The three flaws fixed are: CVE-2024-21899 : an improper authentication vulnerability could allow users to compromise the security of the system via a network. CVE-2024-21900 : an injection vulnerability could allow authenticated users to execute commands via a network.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 23, 2024

The proliferation of new top-level domains (TLDs) has exacerbated a well-known security weakness: Many organizations set up their internal Microsoft authentication systems years ago using domain names in TLDs that didn’t exist at the time. SSL/TLS certs). ” Caturegli said setting up an email server record for memrtcc.ad

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

An internet outage impacted Orange Spain after a hacker gained access to the company’s RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing. The hacker, who uses the moniker ‘Snow’, gained access to the RIPE account of Orange Spain and misconfigured the BGP routing causing an internet outage.

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Daniel Miessler

MAY 14, 2020

I wrote an article recently on how to secure your home network in three different tiers of protection. In that piece I wanted to link to some safe internet practices—which some used to call Safe Hex—but I couldn’t find anything newer than nine years old. Enable two-factor authentication on all critical accounts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2024

An attacker can exploit the flaw to achieve command execution on the affected D-Link NAS devices, gain access to potential access to sensitive information, system configuration alteration, or denial of service. Netsecfish reported that over 92,000 Internet-facing devices are vulnerable.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 20, 2022

Zero Trust is a concept, an approach to information security that dramatically deviates from the approach commonly taken at businesses worldwide by security professionals for many years. And, of course, they must know, and be able to strongly authenticate, any human users as well.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Threat actors targeted tens thousands of unauthenticated Redis servers exposed on the internet as part of a cryptocurrency campaign. The tool is not designed to be exposed on the Internet, however, researchers spotted tens thousands Redis instance publicly accessible without authentication. ” warns Censys.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ivanti warned customers of a new critical Sentry API authentication bypass vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-38035. The software company Ivanti released urgent security patches to address a critical-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-38035 (CVSS score 9.8), in the Ivanti Sentry (formerly MobileIron Sentry) product.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2024

On April 10, Sisense Chief Information Security Officer Sangram Dash told customers the company had been made aware of reports that “certain Sisense company information may have been made available on what we have been advised is a restricted access server (not generally available on the internet.)”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

.” The researchers pointed out that despite the vulnerable service is intended for LAN access only, querying Shodan they identified over 91,000 devices that expose the service to the Internet. Most of the Internet-facing devices are in South Korea, Hong Kong, the U.S., Sweden, and Finland. running on OLED55CXPUA webOS 6.3.3-442

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 4, 2022

SMBs and enterprises alike have been struggling with APIs as a mechanism for information security. To protect against these attacks, businesses need to implement a wide range of strong API security measures such as authentication, authorization, encryption, and vulnerability scanning.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The number of internet-facing cameras in the world is growing exponentially. Businesses and homeowners increasingly rely on internet protocol (IP) cameras for surveillance. New research by Cybernews shows an exponential rise in the uptake of internet-facing cameras. Surge in internet-facing cameras.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2022

No wonder Russia has been preparing to cut itself off from the global internet, hoping to move key government institutions to a sovereign Runet – a pan-Russian web limited to the Federation – to make them less prone to cyber attacks. Ideally, VNC should be used only with authenticated users, such as system administrators.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In particular, we recommend that you ensure that access to the management interface is possible only from trusted internal IPs and not from the Internet. ” Palo Alto Networks recommends reviewing best practices for securing management access to its devices.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Almost a million files with minors’ data, including home addresses and photos were left open to anyone on the internet, posing a threat to children. The DigitalOcean storage bucket, containing almost a million sensitive files, was left open to anyone without requiring authentication.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 19, 2024

North Korea-linked group APT37 exploited an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability in a supply chain attack. “This attack requires an authenticated client to click a link in order for an unauthenticated attacker to initiate remote code execution.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) warned of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in the country vulnerable to critical flaws. “Around 45,000 Microsoft Exchange servers in Germany can currently be accessed from the Internet without restrictions. ” reads the alert published by the BSI.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2024-7593 (CVSS score of 9.8)

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The vulnerability was discovered by security researchers at Positive Technologies and disclosed to Citrix in October 10, 2023. Security firm Mandiant observed threat actors hijacking sessions where session data was stolen before the patch deployment and subsequently used by the threat actor.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Avoid entering any data if you see a warning message about a site’s authenticity. Most browsers will alert you if a site isn’t secure. If you’re unsure, avoid entering sensitive information or use a privacy screen to block prying eyes.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Ivanti warns customers of a new authentication bypass vulnerability in its Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA gateway devices. “An XML external entity or XXE vulnerability in the SAML component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, x), Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, x), Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A previously undetected hacking group, tracked as Metador, has been targeting telecommunications, internet services providers (ISPs), and universities for about two years. Both malware authenticates themselves to Cryshell through a port-knocking and handshake procedure. ” reads the analysis published by the researchers.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Related: Good to know about IoT Physical security is often a second thought when it comes to information security. Despite this, physical security must be implemented correctly to prevent attackers from gaining physical access and taking whatever they desire.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A proof of concept exploit for two authentication bypass vulnerabilities in Dahua cameras is available online, users are recommended to immediately apply updates. “The identity authentication bypass vulnerability found in some Dahua products during the login process.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2022

Nearly all CMS platforms, whether traditional or headless, offer some level of built-in security to authenticate users who are allowed to view, add, remove, or change content. Best security practices. Sad to say, those basic measures may not be enough to prevent bad actors from stealing, destroying, or tampering with content.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 3, 2021

I had the chance to learn more about ABE from Brent Waters, a distinguished scientist in the Cryptography & Information Security (CIS) Lab at NTT Research. PKI revolves around the distribution of digital certificates to validate the authenticity of websites. Clearly, encryption agility needs to happen.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Cisco is aware of active exploitation of a previously unknown vulnerability in the web UI feature of Cisco IOS XE Software when exposed to the internet or to untrusted networks.” Cisco recommends admins to disable the HTTP server feature on systems exposed on the Internet. reads the advisory published by the company.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Sandworm were observed targeting open ports and unprotected RDP or SSH interfaces to gain access to the internet-facing systems. ’ The CERT-UA also reported that the state-sponsored hackers used compromised VPN accounts that weren’t protected by multi-factor authentication. “Note (!) .’ “Note (!)

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2024

Two students discovered a security flaw in over a million internet-connected laundry machines that could allow laundry for free. They manage and operate many internet-connected laundry machines and systems, offering services such as coin and card-operated laundry machines, mobile payment solutions, and maintenance support.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

A new malware named Cuttlefish targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data. Cuttlefish has a modular structure, it was designed to primarily steal authentication data from web requests passing through the router from the local area network (LAN).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2021

Fortinet has recently addressed a high-severity vulnerability ( CVE-2021-22123 ) affecting its FortiWeb web application firewall (WAF), a remote, authenticated attacker can exploit it to execute arbitrary commands via the SAML server configuration page. ” reads the advisory published by the vendor. The flaw received a CVSSv3 score of 7.4

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 19, 2024

.” The experts added that FortiWLM’s verbose logs expose session IDs, enabling attackers to exploit log file read vulnerabilities to hijack sessions and access authenticated endpoints. Authenticated users’ session ID tokens in FortiWLM remain static per device boot. ” concludes the report.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It was a bit shocking that we were able to reach the deserialization sink without any authentication.” hosts exposed on the internet that are running WS_FTP, they also published a PoC exploit for this vulnerability. All versions of WS_FTP Server are affected by these vulnerabilities.” Assetnote researchers discovered about 2.9k

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Threat actors are using a malicious Internet Information Services (IIS) Server module, dubbed Owowa, to steal Microsoft Exchange credentials. Once a user has successfully authenticated on the OWA authentication web page, the Owawa module captures its credential. “Owowa is a C#-developed.NET v4.0

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The threat actor compromised network administrator credentials through the account of a former employee that was used to successfully authenticate to an internal virtual private network (VPN) access point. Neither of the two administrative accounts had multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The scale and frequency of recent DDoS attacks are unprecedented, with experts warning they could overwhelm unprotected internet infrastructure. The campaign that started in September targets the financial, internet, and telecom industries. Details to come. in ASUS routers. Tbps with a packet rate of 340 million Pps. .

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

With a specific request that doesn’t require authentication an attacker is able to upload arbitrary files via J-Web, leading to a loss of integrity for a certain part of the file system, which may allow chaining to other vulnerabilities,” says Juniper. Then they exploited the same vulnerable function to upload a PHP configuration file (.ini)

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