Security
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Over 14,000 F5 BIG-IP APM instances still exposed to RCE attacks
Internet threat-monitoring non-profit Shadowserver has found over 14,000 BIG-IP APM instances exposed online amid ongoing attacks exploiting a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. BIG-IP APM (short for Access Policy Manager) is F5’s centralized access management proxy solution designed to help admins secure access to their organizations’ networks, cloud, applications, and application programming interfaces (APIs). […]
Microsoft still working to fix Exchange Online mailbox access issues
Microsoft is investigating and working to resolve Exchange Online mailbox access issues that have intermittently affected Outlook mobile and macOS users for weeks. When it first acknowledged this service issue (tracked under EX1256020) last week, Microsoft said the root cause was a newly introduced virtual account. While the company flagged it as resolved on April 1, […]
Man admits to locking thousands of Windows devices in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer has pleaded guilty to locking Windows admins out of 254 servers as part of a failed extortion plot targeting his employer, an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey. According to court documents, 57-year-old Daniel Rhyne from Kansas City, Missouri, remotely accessed the company’s network without authorization using an administrator […]
CERT-EU: European Commission hack exposes data of 30 EU entities
The European Union’s Cybersecurity Service (CERT-EU) has attributed the European Commission cloud hack to the TeamPCP threat group, saying the resulting breach exposed the data of at least 29 other Union entities. The European Commission publicly disclosed the incident on March 27 after GeekFeed reached out for confirmation that the Amazon cloud environment of the European Union’s main executive […]
Claude Code leak used to push infostealer malware on GitHub
Threat actors are exploiting the recent Claude Code source code leak by using fake GitHub repositories to deliver Vidar information-stealing malware. Claude Code is a terminal-based AI agent from Anthropic, designed to execute coding tasks directly in the terminal and act as an autonomous agent, capable of direct system interaction, LLM API call handling, MCP […]
Drift loses $280 million North Korean hackers seize Security Council powers
The Drift Protocol lost at least $280 million after a threat actor took control of its Security Council administrative powers in a planned, sophisticated operation. Blockchain intelligence firms Elliptic and TRM Labs linked the attacks to North Korean threat actors, based on multiple on-chain indicators consistent with DPRK tradecraft. These include Tornado Cash usage, CarbonVote deployment timing (09:30 Pyongyang time), cross-chain […]
Residential proxies evaded IP reputation checks in 78% of 4B sessions
Researchers warn that residential proxies used to route malicious traffic are a big problem for IP reputation systems, as there is no clear distinction between attackers and legitimate users. This occurs because residential proxies are too short-lived, uninvolved, or systematically rotated, preventing defense systems from cataloging them in time. Cybersecurity intelligence platform GreyNoise determined this after examining a […]
New Progress ShareFile flaws can be chained in pre-auth RCE attacks
Two vulnerabilities in Progress ShareFile, an enterprise-grade secure file transfer solution, can be chained to enable unauthenticated file exfiltration from affected environments. Progress ShareFile is a document sharing and collaboration product typically used by large and mid-sized companies. Such solutions are an attractive target for ransomware actors, as previously seen in Clop data-theft attacks exploiting bugs in Accellion […]
Medtech giant Stryker fully operational after data-wiping attack
Stryker Corporation, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, says it’s fully operational three weeks after many of its systems were wiped out in a cyberattack claimed by the Iranian-linked Handala hacktivist group. The Fortune 500 medtech giant has over 53,000 employees, makes a wide range of products (including neurotechnology and surgical equipment), and […]
Critical Cisco IMC auth bypass gives attackers Admin access
Cisco has released security updates to address several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, including an Integrated Management Controller (IMC) authentication bypass that allows attackers to gain Admin access. Also known as CIMC, Cisco IMC is a hardware module embedded on the motherboard of Cisco servers that provides out-of-band management (even if the operating system is powered off or crashed) for UCS […]