U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Mali GPU Kernel Driver, PHP bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability…
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Ukraine Police arrested a hacker who developed a crypter used by Conti and LockBit ransomware operation
The Ukraine cyber police arrested a Russian man for having developed the crypter component employed in Conti and LockBit ransomware operations. The Ukraine cyber police arrested a Russian man (28) for his role in developing a crypter used in Conti and LockBit…
JetBrains fixed IntelliJ IDE flaw exposing GitHub access tokens
JetBrains warned to fix a critical vulnerability in IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE) apps that exposes GitHub access tokens. JetBrains warned customers to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-37051, that impacts users of its IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE)…
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 fixed only one critical issue
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 addressed 49 vulnerabilities, only one of them is a publicly disclosed zero-day flaw. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 addressed 49 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office…
Cylance confirms the legitimacy of data offered for sale in the dark web
A threat actor is selling the data belonging to BlackBerry’s Cylance cybersecurity unit, he demanded $750,000. A threat actor, that goes online with the moniker Sp1d3r, is selling the stolen data for $750,000. The data includes 34 million customer and…
Arm zero-day in Mali GPU Drivers actively exploited in the wild
Semiconductor and software design company Arm warns of an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Mali GPU Kernel Driver. Arm is warning of an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4610, in Mali GPU Kernel Driver. The vulnerability is a use-after-free issue issue…
Expert released PoC exploit code for Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager flaw CVE-2024-29849. Patch it now!
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass flaw CVE-2024-29849 is publicly available. Researcher Sina Kheirkha analyzed the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager authentication bypass flaw CVE-2024-29849 and a proof of concept exploit for this issue. The…
Japanese video-sharing platform Niconico was victim of a cyber attack
The Japanese video-sharing platform, Niconico, was forced to suspend its services following a cybersecurity incident. The Japanese video-sharing platform, Niconico, temporarily suspended its services following a large-scale cyberattack on June 8, 2024. “Due to the effects of a large-scale cyber…
UK NHS call for O-type blood donations following ransomware attack on London hospitals
The UK NHS issued an urgent call for O-type blood donations following the recent ransomware attack that hit several London hospitals. The UK National Health Service (NHS) issued an urgent call for O-type blood donations due to the recent ransomware…
Christie’s data breach impacted 45,798 individuals
Auction house Christie’s revealed that the data breach caused by the recent ransomware attack impacted 45,000 individuals. At the end of May, the auction house Christie’s disclosed a data breach after the ransomware group RansomHub threatened to leak stolen data. The security…
Sticky Werewolf targets the aviation industry in Russia and Belarus
Morphisec researchers observed a threat actor, tracked as Sticky Werewolf, targeting entities in Russia and Belarus. Sticky Werewolf is a threat actor that was first spotted in April 2023, initially targeting public organizations in Russia and Belarus. The group has…
Frontier Communications data breach impacted over 750,000 individuals
Frontier Communications is notifying over 750,000 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a recent cyber attack. Last week, the RansomHub ransomware group claimed to have stolen the information of over 2 million customers from the American telecommunications company…
PHP addressed critical RCE flaw potentially impacting millions of servers
A new PHP for Windows remote code execution (RCE) flaw affects version 5.x and earlier versions, potentially impacting millions of servers worldwide. Researchers at cybersecurity firm DEVCORE discovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, in the PHP programming language. An…
Security Affairs newsletter Round 475 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. New…
New York Times source code compromised via exposed GitHub token
The source code and data of The New York Times leaked on the 4chan was stolen from the company’s GitHub repositories in January 2024. This week, VX-Underground first noticed that the internal data of The New York Times was leaked…
SolarWinds fixed multiple flaws in Serv-U and SolarWinds Platform
SolarWinds addressed multiple vulnerabilities in Serv-U and the SolarWinds Platform, including a bug reported by a pentester working with NATO. SolarWinds announced security patches to address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in Serv-U and the SolarWinds Platform. The vulnerabilities affect Platform 2024.1…
Pandabuy was extorted twice by the same threat actor
Chinese shopping platform Pandabuy previously paid a ransom demand to an extortion group that extorted the company again this week. The story of the attack against the Chinese shopping platform Pandabuy demonstrates that paying a ransom to an extortion group…
UAC-0020 threat actor used the SPECTR Malware to target Ukraine’s defense forces
Ukraine CERT-UA warned of cyber attacks targeting defense forces with SPECTR malware as part of a cyber espionage campaign dubbed SickSync. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) warned of cyber espionage campaign targeting defense forces in the country.…
Chinese threat actor exploits old ThinkPHP flaws since October 2023
Akamai observed a Chinese-speaking group exploiting two flaws, tracked as CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082, in ThinkPHP applications. Akamai researchers observed a Chinese threat actor exploiting two old remote code execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2018-20062 and CVE-2019-9082, in ThinkPHP. The campaign seems to have…
A new Linux version of TargetCompany ransomware targets VMware ESXi environments
A new Linux variant of the TargetCompany ransomware family targets VMware ESXi environments using a custom shell script. A new variant of the TargetCompany ransomware group uses a custom shell script as a means of payload delivery and execution, this is…