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Watch Out! These Android Keyboard Apps With 2 Million Installs Can be Hacked Remotely

By Ravie Lakshmanan — December 2nd 2022 at 07:48
Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities have been discovered in three Android apps that allow a smartphone to be used as a remote keyboard and mouse. The apps in question are Lazy Mouse, PC Keyboard, and Telepad, which have been cumulatively downloaded over two million times from the Google Play Store. Telepad is no longer available through the app marketplace but can be downloaded from its website.
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VMware Releases Patch for Critical RCE Flaw in Cloud Foundation Platform

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 26th 2022 at 04:24
VMware on Tuesday shipped security updates to address a critical security flaw in its VMware Cloud Foundation product. Tracked as CVE-2021-39144, the issue has been rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system, and relates to a remote code execution vulnerability via XStream open source library. "Due to an unauthenticated endpoint that leverages XStream for input serialization in
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Critical RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Popular Cobalt Strike Hacking Software

By Ravie Lakshmanan — October 18th 2022 at 05:29
HelpSystems, the company behind the Cobalt Strike software platform, has released an out-of-band security update to address a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take control of targeted systems. Cobalt Strike is a commercial red-team framework that's mainly used for adversary simulation, but cracked versions of the software have been actively abused by ransomware
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Microsoft Confirms 2 New Exchange Zero-Day Flaws Being Used in the Wild

By Ravie Lakshmanan — September 30th 2022 at 09:01
Microsoft officially disclosed it investigating two zero-day security vulnerabilities impacting Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019 following reports of in-the-wild exploitation. "The first vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-41040, is a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability, while the second, identified as CVE-2022-41082, allows remote code execution (RCE) when PowerShell is
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GitLab Issues Patch for Critical Flaw in its Community and Enterprise Software

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 24th 2022 at 06:21
DevOps platform GitLab this week issued patches to address a critical security flaw in its software that could lead to arbitrary code execution on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2022-2884, the issue is rated 9.9 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system and impacts all versions of GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) starting from 11.3.4 before 15.1.5, 15.2 before 15.2.3,
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Over a Dozen Flaws Found in Siemens' Industrial Network Management System

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 18th 2022 at 06:29
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about 15 security flaws in Siemens SINEC network management system (NMS), some of which could be chained by an attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. "The vulnerabilities, if exploited, pose a number of risks to Siemens devices on the network including denial-of-service attacks, credential leaks, and remote code execution
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High-Severity RCE Vulnerability Reported in Popular Fastjson Library

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 16th 2022 at 08:25
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a recently patched high-severity security vulnerability in the popular Fastjson library that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2022-25845 (CVSS score: 8.1), the issue relates to a case of deserialization of untrusted data in a supported feature called "AutoType." It was patched by the project maintainers in 
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Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Critical Atlassian Confluence Zero-Day Vulnerability

By Ravie Lakshmanan — June 3rd 2022 at 03:43
Atlassian has warned of a critical unpatched remote code execution vulnerability impacting Confluence Server and Data Center products that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. The Australian software company credited cybersecurity firm Volexity for identifying the flaw, which is being tracked as CVE-2022-26134. "Atlassian has been made aware of current active exploitation of a
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