Category: Cyber Security News

Hackers Exploits ADFS to Bypass MFA & Gain Access to Critical Systems

A sophisticated phishing campaign has been discovered targeting organizations reliant on Microsoft’s Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).  This legacy single sign-on (SSO) solution, designed to streamline authentication across multiple applications, is being exploited by attackers to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA)…

AMD SEV Vulnerability Allows Malicious CPU Microcode Injection as Admin

AMD has disclosed a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2024-56161) in its Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, which could allow attackers with administrative privileges to inject malicious CPU microcode.  This flaw compromises the confidentiality and integrity of virtual machines (VMs) protected by SEV-SNP,…

3 SOC Challenges Solved by Threat Intelligence

An organization’s cyber security operation center (SOC) is a unit in charge of cyber threat prevention and mitigation.  Within this framework, several critical tasks imply gathering and analyzing data on threats, incidents and attacks. This process is usually referred to…

New Attack Technique to Bypassing EDR as Low Privileged Standard User

A new cyberattack technique has emerged, enabling attackers to bypass Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) systems while operating under a low-privileged standard user account.  Traditionally, EDR evasion requires elevated privileges, such as administrative or system-level access.  However, this innovative approach…

Roundcube XSS Vulnerability Let Attackers Inject Malicious Files

A critical Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-57004, has been discovered in Roundcube Webmail version 1.6.9.  This flaw allows remote authenticated users to upload malicious files disguised as email attachments, posing significant risks to individuals and organizations using the…