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WordPress Bricks Theme Under Active Attack: Critical Flaw Impacts 25,000+ Sites

By Newsroom — February 20th 2024 at 09:08
A critical security flaw in the Bricks theme for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to run arbitrary PHP code on susceptible installations. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-25600 (CVSS score: 9.8), enables unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. It impacts all versions of the Bricks up to and including 1.9.6. It has been addressed by the theme developers in&
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WordPress Releases Update 6.4.2 to Address Critical Remote Attack Vulnerability

By Newsroom — December 8th 2023 at 09:23
WordPress has released version 6.4.2 with a patch for a critical security flaw that could be exploited by threat actors by combining it with another bug to execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable sites. "A remote code execution vulnerability that is not directly exploitable in core; however, the security team feels that there is a potential for high severity when combined with some plugins,
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Warning: 3 Critical Vulnerabilities Expose ownCloud Users to Data Breaches

By Newsroom — November 25th 2023 at 04:00
The maintainers of the open-source file-sharing software ownCloud have warned of three critical security flaws that could be exploited to disclose sensitive information and modify files. A brief description of the vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2023-49103 (CVSS score: 10.0) - Disclosure of sensitive credentials and configuration in containerized deployments impacting graphapi versions from
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PHP Packagist supply chain poisoned by hacker “looking for a job”

By Paul Ducklin — May 5th 2023 at 16:59
I pwned you! Gizza job! You know it makes sense!

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Packagist Repository Hacked: Over a Dozen PHP Packages with 500 Million Installs Compromised

By Ravie Lakshmanan — May 5th 2023 at 09:52
PHP software package repository Packagist revealed that an "attacker" gained access to four inactive accounts on the platform to hijack over a dozen packages with over 500 million installs to date. "The attacker forked each of the packages and replaced the package description in composer.json with their own message but did not otherwise make any malicious changes," Packagist's Nils Adermann said
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GoBruteforcer: New Golang-Based Malware Breaches Web Servers via Brute-Force Attacks

By Ravie Lakshmanan — March 14th 2023 at 12:02
A new Golang-based malware dubbed GoBruteforcer has been found targeting web servers running phpMyAdmin, MySQL, FTP, and Postgres to corral the devices into a botnet. "GoBruteforcer chose a Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block for scanning the network during the attack, and it targeted all IP addresses within that CIDR range," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers said. "The threat actor
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New GoTrim Botnet Attempting to Break into WordPress Sites' Admin Accounts

By Ravie Lakshmanan — December 14th 2022 at 14:12
A new Go-based botnet has been spotted scanning and brute-forcing self-hosted websites using the WordPress content management system (CMS) to seize control of targeted systems. "This new brute forcer is part of a new campaign we have named GoTrim because it was written in Go and uses ':::trim:::' to split data communicated to and from the C2 server," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researchers Eduardo
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SHA-3 code execution bug patched in PHP – check your version!

By Paul Ducklin — November 1st 2022 at 14:09
As everyone waits for news of a bug in OpenSSL, here's a reminder that other cryptographic code in your life may also need patching!

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New PHP Version of Ducktail Malware Hijacking Facebook Business Accounts

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 14th 2022 at 10:12
A PHP version of an information-stealing malware called Ducktail has been discovered in the wild being distributed in the form of cracked installers for legitimate apps and games, according to the latest findings from Zscaler. "Like older versions (.NetCore), the latest version (PHP) also aims to exfiltrate sensitive information related to saved browser credentials, Facebook account information,
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Researchers Report Supply Chain Vulnerability in Packagist PHP Repository

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 4th 2022 at 15:09
Researchers have disclosed details about a now-patched high-severity security flaw in Packagist, a PHP software package repository, that could have been exploited to mount software supply chain attacks. "This vulnerability allows gaining control of Packagist," SonarSource researcher Thomas Chauchefoin said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Packagist is used by the PHP package manager
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Hackers Targeting VoIP Servers By Exploiting Digium Phone Software

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 16th 2022 at 06:33
VoIP phones using Digium's software have been targeted to drop a web shell on their servers as part of an attack campaign designed to exfiltrate data by downloading and executing additional payloads. "The malware installs multilayer obfuscated PHP backdoors to the web server's file system, downloads new payloads for execution, and schedules recurring tasks to re-infect the host system," Palo
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Critical PHP Vulnerability Exposes QNAP NAS Devices to Remote Attacks

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 23rd 2022 at 06:36
QNAP, Taiwanese maker of network-attached storage (NAS) devices, on Wednesday said it's in the process of fixing a critical three-year-old PHP vulnerability that could be abused to achieve remote code execution. "A vulnerability has been reported to affect PHP versions 7.1.x below 7.1.33, 7.2.x below 7.2.24, and 7.3.x below 7.3.11 with improper nginx config," the hardware vendor said in an
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Poisoned Python and PHP packages purloin passwords for AWS access

By Paul Ducklin — May 24th 2022 at 23:04
More supply chain trouble - this time with clear examples so you can learn how to spot this stuff yourself.

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Popular PyPI Package 'ctx' and PHP Library 'phpass' Hijacked to Steal AWS Keys

By Ravie Lakshmanan — May 24th 2022 at 15:31
Two trojanized Python and PHP packages have been uncovered in what's yet another instance of a software supply chain attack targeting the open source ecosystem. One of the packages in question is "ctx," a Python module available in the PyPi repository. The other involves "phpass," a PHP package that's been forked on GitHub to distribute a rogue update. "In both cases the attacker appears to have
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Irony alert! PHP fixes security flaw in input validation code

By Paul Ducklin — February 18th 2022 at 17:59
What's wrong with this sequence? 1. Step into the road 2. Check if it's safe 3. Keep on walki...

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