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What the CISA Reporting Rule Means for Your IT Security Protocol

By The Hacker News — December 2nd 2022 at 10:35
The new Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) requires CISA to create rules regarding cyber incident reporting by critical infrastructure organizations. The RFI and hearings precede a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that CISA must publish sooner than 24 months from the enactment of CIRCIA, which the President signed into law in March. The sessions and
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Cuba Ransomware Extorted Over $60 Million in Ransom Fees from More than 100 Entities

By Ravie Lakshmanan — December 2nd 2022 at 06:04
The threat actors behind Cuba (aka COLDDRAW) ransomware have received more than $60 million in ransom payments and compromised over 100 entities across the world as of August 2022. In a new advisory shared by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the agencies highlighted a "sharp increase in both the number of compromised
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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Critical Oracle Fusion Middleware Vulnerability

By Ravie Lakshmanan — November 29th 2022 at 04:20
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Oracle Fusion Middleware to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-35587, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and impacts Oracle Access Manager (OAM) versions 11.1.2.3.0, 12.2.1.3.0, and 12.2.1.4.0. <!--
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Iranian Hackers Compromised a U.S. Federal Agency’s Network Using Log4Shell Exploit

By Ravie Lakshmanan — November 17th 2022 at 06:22
Iranian government-sponsored threat actors have been blamed for compromising a U.S. federal agency by taking advantage of the Log4Shell vulnerability in an unpatched VMware Horizon server. The details, which were shared by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), come in response to incident response efforts undertaken by the authority from mid-June through mid-July 2022
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CISA Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in 3 Industrial Control System Software

By Ravie Lakshmanan — November 4th 2022 at 10:01
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories about multiple vulnerabilities in software from ETIC Telecom, Nokia, and Delta Industrial Automation. Prominent among them is a set of three flaws affecting ETIC Telecom's Remote Access Server (RAS), which "could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information and
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CISA Warns of Critical Flaws Affecting Industrial Appliances from Advantech and Hitachi

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 19th 2022 at 08:51
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released two Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories pertaining to severe flaws in Advantech R-SeeNet and Hitachi Energy APM Edge appliances. This consists of three weaknesses in the R-SeeNet monitoring solution, successful exploitation of which "could result in an unauthorized attacker remotely deleting files on the
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FBI, CISA, and NSA Reveal How Hackers Targeted a Defense Industrial Base Organization

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 5th 2022 at 08:12
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies on Tuesday disclosed that multiple nation-state hacking groups potentially targeted a "Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Sector organization's enterprise network" as part of a cyber espionage campaign. "[Advanced persistent threat] actors used an open-source toolkit called Impacket to gain their foothold within the environment and further compromise the
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CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Regularly Track Network Assets and Vulnerabilities

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 4th 2022 at 10:16
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a new Binding Operational Directive (BOD) that directs federal agencies in the country to keep track of assets and vulnerabilities on their networks six months from now. To that end, Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) enterprises have been tasked with two sets of activities: Asset discovery and vulnerability
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CISA Warns of Hackers Exploiting Recent Zoho ManageEngine Vulnerability

By Ravie Lakshmanan — September 23rd 2022 at 10:21
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a recently disclosed security flaw in Zoho ManageEngine to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. "Zoho ManageEngine PAM360, Password Manager Pro, and Access Manager Plus contain an unspecified vulnerability which allows for remote code execution," the agency
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Critical Remote Hack Flaws Found in Dataprobe's Power Distribution Units

By Ravie Lakshmanan — September 21st 2022 at 05:24
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released an industrial control systems (ICS) advisory warning of seven security flaws in Dataprobe's iBoot-PDU power distribution unit product, mostly used in industrial environments and data centers. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution on the Dataprobe
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Warning: PyPI Feature Executes Code Automatically After Python Package Download

By Ravie Lakshmanan — September 2nd 2022 at 10:21
In another finding that could expose developers to increased risk of a supply chain attack, it has emerged that nearly one-third of the packages in PyPI, the Python Package Index, trigger automatic code execution upon downloading them. "A worrying feature in pip/PyPI allows code to automatically run when developers are merely downloading a package," Checkmarx researcher Yehuda Gelb said in a
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CISA Adds 10 New Known Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities to its Catalog

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 29th 2022 at 04:23
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added 10 new actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, including a high-severity security flaw affecting industrial automation software from Delta Electronics. The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-38406 (CVSS score: 7.8), impacts DOPSoft 2 versions 2.00.07 and prior. A successful
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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS Vulnerability

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 23rd 2022 at 03:03
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a security flaw impacting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0028 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a URL filtering policy misconfiguration that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to
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CISA Adds Zimbra Email Vulnerability to its Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 5th 2022 at 05:54
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a recently disclosed high-severity vulnerability in the Zimbra email suite to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The issue in question is CVE-2022-27924 (CVSS score: 7.5), a command injection flaw in the platform that could lead to the execution of arbitrary
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CISA Warns of Atlassian Confluence Hard-Coded Credential Bug Exploited in Attacks

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 30th 2022 at 03:54
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added the recently disclosed Atlassian security flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-26138, concerns the use of hard-coded credentials when the Questions For Confluence app is enabled in Confluence Server and Data Center
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North Korean Maui Ransomware Actively Targeting U.S. Healthcare Organizations

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 7th 2022 at 12:23
In a new joint cybersecurity advisory, U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned about the use of Maui ransomware by North Korean government-backed hackers to target the healthcare sector since at least May 2021. "North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors used Maui ransomware in these incidents to encrypt servers responsible for healthcare services—including electronic health
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Log4Shell Still Being Exploited to Hack VMWare Servers to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 24th 2022 at 03:36
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER), on Thursday released a joint advisory warning of continued attempts on the part of threat actors to exploit the Log4Shell flaw in VMware Horizon servers to breach target networks. "Since December 2021, multiple threat actor groups have exploited Log4Shell on unpatched,
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U.S. Agencies Warn About Chinese Hackers Targeting Telecoms and Network Service Providers

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 8th 2022 at 08:20
U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned about China-based state-sponsored cyber actors leveraging network vulnerabilities to exploit public and private sector organizations since at least 2020. The widespread intrusion campaigns aim to exploit publicly identified security flaws in network devices such as Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) routers and Network Attached Storage (NAS)
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CISA Warned About Critical Vulnerabilities in Illumina's DNA Sequencing Devices

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 6th 2022 at 11:58
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued an advisory about critical security vulnerabilities in Illumina's next-generation sequencing (NGS) software. Three of the flaws are rated 10 out of 10 for severity on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), with two others having severity ratings of 9.1 and 7.4. The issues
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CISA warning: “Russian actors bypassed 2FA” – what happened and how to avoid it

By Paul Ducklin — March 16th 2022 at 01:22
Don't leave old accounts lying around where someone sketchy could reactivate them.

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