An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal") in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.3 to 5.6.7 and 5.4.6 to 5.4.12 and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.0 to 1.2.8, 1.1.0 to 1.1.6, 1.0.0 to 1.0.7 under SSL VPN web portal allows an unauthenticated malicious user to download system files via special crafted HTTP resource requests.
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Latest tools, tactics, and procedures being used by the Hive, Conti, and AvosLocker ransomware operations.
Posted: 28 Apr, 20228 Min ReadThreat Intelligence SubscribeFollowtwitterlinkedinRansomware: How Attackers are Breaching Corporate NetworksLatest tools, tactics, and procedures being used by the Hive, Conti, and AvosLocker ransomware operations.Targeted ransomware attacks continue to be one of the most critical cyber risks facing organizations of all sizes. The tactics used by ransomware attackers are continually evolving, but by identifying the most freq...
Symantec takes a look at the cyber security trends that shaped the year
Posted: 19 Jan, 20226 Min ReadThreat Intelligence SubscribeFollowtwitterlinkedinThe Threat Landscape in 2021Symantec takes a look at the cyber security trends that shaped the yearFrom the evolving ransomware ecosystem to attacks against critical infrastructure, Symantec looks back over the cyber-security trends that shaped 2021. A new whitepaper from Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software, takes a look back at the some of the major thre...
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In brief Emails, chat logs, membership records, donor lists and other files siphoned from a far-right anti-government self-styled militia were leaked online on Monday, it appears. Some 5GB of data belonging to the Oath Keepers ‒ at least four of whom have been indicted for and admitted their role in the January 6 storming of the US capitol – was passed to the DDoSecrets Collective and shared online. The membership list contains accounts with 160 US government and military email addresses, th...
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Some vulnerabilities remain unreported for the longest time. The 12-year-old Dell SupportAssist remote code execution (RCE) flaw – which was finally unearthed earlier this year – would be one example. Others, however, have not only been long since reported and had patches released, but continue to pose a threat to enterprises. A joint advisory from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), published in late July, listed the ...
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in Brief It was a tsunami of DNS queries that ultimately took out a host of Microsoft services, from Xbox Live to Teams, for some netizens about an hour on April Fools' Day, Redmond has said. Or as the Windows giant put it, the outage was the result of "an anomalous surge in DNS queries from across the globe targeting a set of domains hosted on Azure." In a postmortem examination of the downtime, Microsoft said the flood of requests triggered a programming flaw in its infrastructure that hampere...
'Unauthorized access to elections support systems' detected tho 'no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised' Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real
If you're wondering which bugs in particular miscreants are exploiting to break into, or attempt to break into, US government networks, wonder no more. And then make sure you've patched them. Uncle Sam's Dept of Homeland Security has this month identified at least six possible routes into the nation's computer systems, and the method used to gain total control over the machines once inside. Those six vulnerabilities are... ...plus CVE-2020-1472, aka ZeroLogon, in Microsoft Windows, which is expl...
Topics Security Off-Prem On-Prem Software Offbeat Vendor Voice Vendor Voice Resources Malicious cyber actors go after 2021's biggest misses, spend less time on the classics
Security flaws in Log4j, Microsoft Exchange, and Atlassian's workspace collaboration software were among the bugs most frequently exploited by "malicious cyber actors" in 2021 , according to a joint advisory by the Five Eyes nations' cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies. It's worth noting that 11 of the 15 flaws on the list were disclosed in 2021, as previous years' lists often found miscreants exploiting the older vulns for which patches had been available for years. Of course, the US Cyb...
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A two-year campaign by state-sponsored Russian entities to siphon information from US defense contractors worked, it is claimed. Uncle Sam's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday said Moscow's cyber-snoops have obtained "significant insight into US weapons platforms development and deployment timelines, vehicle specifications, and plans for communications infrastructure and information technology." The Agency added that the intruders made off with sensitive and unc...
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Seven nations today issued an alert, plus protection tips, about LockBit, the prolific ransomware-as-a-service gang. The group's affiliates remains a global scourge, costing US victims alone more than $90 million from roughly 1,700 attacks since 2020, we're told. The joint security advisory — issued by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), FBI, Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and cybersecurity authorities in Australia, Canada, the UK, Ge...
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