An ElasticSearch server instance that was left open on the Internet without a password contained sensitive financial information about loans from Indian and African financial …
Cisco Issues Patches for 3 New Flaws Affecting Enterprise NFVIS Software
Cisco Systems on Wednesday shipped security patches to contain three flaws impacting its Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS[1]) that could permit an attacker to fully …
F5 Warns of a New Critical BIG-IP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Cloud security and application delivery network (ADN[1]) provider F5 on Wednesday released patches to contain 43 bugs spanning its products. Of the 43 issues addressed[2], …
SEC Plans to Hire More Staff in Crypto Enforcement Unit to Fight Frauds
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday announced that it will expand and rebrand its Cyber Unit to fight against cyber-related threats and …
Chinese Hackers Caught Stealing Intellectual Property from Multinational Companies
An elusive and sophisticated cyberespionage campaign orchestrated by the China-backed Winnti group has managed to fly under the radar since at least 2019. Dubbed “Operation …
Critical RCE Bug Reported in dotCMS Content Management Software
A pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability has been disclosed in dotCMS, an open-source content management system written in Java and “used by over 10,000 clients …
Ukraine War Themed Files Become the Lure of Choice for a Wide Range of Hackers
A growing number of threat actors[1] are using the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war as a lure in various phishing and malware campaigns, even as critical infrastructure …
Critical TLStorm 2.0 Bugs Affect Widely-Used Aruba and Avaya Network Switches
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed as many as five severe security flaws in the implementation of TLS protocol in several models of Aruba and Avaya network …
Experts Analyze Conti and Hive Ransomware Gangs Chats With Their Victims
An analysis of four months of chat logs spanning more than 40 conversations between the operators of Conti and Hive ransomware and their victims has …
AvosLocker Ransomware Variant Using New Trick to Disable Antivirus Protection
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new variant of the AvosLocker ransomware that disables antivirus solutions to evade detection after breaching target networks by taking advantage …