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Cisco Catalyst 9300: Password Recovery Procedure Explained
If you’ve forgotten the password to your Cisco Catalyst 9300 switch, don’t worry. There’s a standard recovery procedure to regain access, involving several steps to ensure security while restoring control. How to Reset a Forgotten Password on a Cisco Catalyst 9300 Switch Step 1: Accessing the Bootloader Mode Step 2: Bypassing the Startup Configuration The […]
Malicious PyPI package with 37,000 downloads steals AWS keys
A malicious Python package named ‘fabrice’ has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web Services credentials from unsuspecting developers. According to application security company Socket, the package has been downloaded more than 37,000 times and executes platform-specific scripts for Windows and Linux. The large number of downloads is accounted by fabrice typosquatting the […]
Scammers target UK senior citizens with Winter Fuel Payment texts
As the winter season kicks in, scammers are not missing the chance to target senior British residents with bogus “winter heating allowance” and “cost of living support” scam texts. The scam campaign is opportunistic given the UK government’s recent controversial stance on cutting winter fuel payments from approximately 10 million pensioners across Britain. Lookalike GOV.UK pages Scammers […]
Critical Veeam RCE bug now used in Frag ransomware attacks
After being used in Akira and Fog ransomware attacks, a critical Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) security flaw was also recently exploited to deploy Frag ransomware. Code White security researcher Florian Hauser found that the vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2024-40711) is caused by a deserialization of untrusted data weakness that unauthenticated threat actors can exploit to gain remote […]
D-Link won’t fix critical flaw affecting 60,000 older NAS devices
More than 60,000 D-Link network-attached storage devices that have reached end-of-life are vulnerable to a command injection vulnerability with a publicly available exploit. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-10914, has a critical 9.2 severity score and is present in the ‘cgi_user_add’ command where the name parameter is insufficiently sanitized. An unauthenticated attacker could exploit it to inject arbitrary […]
Unpatched Mazda Connect bugs let hackers install persistent malware
Attackers could exploit several vulnerabilities in the Mazda Connect infotainment unit, present in multiple car models including Mazda 3 (2014-2021), to execute arbitrary code with root permission. The security issues remain unpatched and some of them are command injection flaws that could be leveraged to obtain unrestricted access to vehicle networks, potentially impacting the car’s […]
Palo Alto Networks warns of potential PAN-OS RCE vulnerability
Today, cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks warned customers to restrict access to their next-generation firewalls because of a potential remote code execution vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface. In a security advisory published on Friday, the company said it doesn’t yet have additional information regarding this alleged security flaw and added that it has yet to […]
Google’s mysterious ‘search.app’ links leave Android users concerned
Google has left Android users puzzled after the most recent update to the Google mobile app causes links shared from the app to now be prepended with a mysterious “search.app” domain. As the Google app is a popular portal for searching the web for Android users and delivers a personalized content news feed referred to […]
North Korean hackers use new macOS malware against crypto firms
North Korean threat actor BlueNoroff has been targeting crypto-related businesses with a new multi-stage malware for macOS systems. Researchers are calling the campaign Hidden Risk and say that it lures victims with emails that share fake news about the latest activity in the cryptocurrency sector. The malware deployed in these attacks relies on a novel […]
CISA warns of critical Palo Alto Networks bug exploited in attacks
Today, CISA warned that attackers are exploiting a critical missing authentication vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Expedition, a migration tool that can help convert firewall configuration from Checkpoint, Cisco, and other vendors to PAN-OS. This security flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-5910, was patched in July, and threat actors can remotely exploit it to reset application admin credentials on Internet-exposed Expedition […]