18 Jan, 2025

Fortinet warns of auth bypass zero-day exploited to hijack firewalls

Attackers are exploiting a new authentication bypass zero-day vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy to hijack Fortinet firewalls and breach enterprise networks. This security flaw (tracked as CVE-2024-55591) impacts FortiOS 7.0.0 through 7.0.16, FortiProxy 7.0.0 through 7.0.19, and FortiProxy 7.2.0 through 7.2.12. Successful exploitation allows remote attackers to gain super-admin privileges by making malicious requests to the […]

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CISA orders agencies to patch BeyondTrust bug exploited in attacks

​CISA has tagged a command injection vulnerability (CVE-2024-12686) in BeyondTrust’s Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) as actively exploited in attacks. As mandated by the Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01, after being added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, U.S. federal agencies must secure their networks against ongoing attacks targeting the flaw within three weeks […]

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Hackers exploit critical Aviatrix Controller RCE flaw in attacks

Threat actors are exploiting a critical remote command execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50603, in Aviatrix Controller instances to install backdoors and crypto miners. The Aviatrix Controller, part of the Aviatrix Cloud Networking Platform, enhances networking, security, and operational visibility for multi-cloud environments. It is used by enterprises, DevOps teams, network engineers, cloud architects, and managed […]

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Ivanti zero-day attacks infected devices with custom malware

Hackers exploiting the critical Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day vulnerability disclosed yesterday installed on compromised VPN appliances new malware called ‘Dryhook’ and ‘Phasejam’ that is not currently associated with any threat group. The security issue, now tracked as CVE-2025-0282 is a critical stack-based buffer overflow flaw that impacts Ivanti Connect Secure 22.7R2.5 and older, Ivanti Policy Secure 22.7R1.2 and older, […]

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Hackers exploit KerioControl firewall flaw to steal admin CSRF tokens

Hackers are trying to exploit CVE-2024-52875, a critical CRLF injection vulnerability that leads to 1-click remote code execution (RCE) attacks in GFI KerioControl firewall product. KerioControl is a network security solution designed for small and medium-sized businesses that combines firewall, VPN, bandwidth management, reporting and monitoring, traffic filtering, AV protection, and intrusion prevention. On December 16, 2024, […]

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CISA warns of critical Oracle, Mitel flaws exploited in attacks

CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against critical vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic Server and Mitel MiCollab systems that are actively exploited in attacks. The cybersecurity agency added a critical path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-41713) found in the NuPoint Unified Messaging (NPM) component Mitel’s MiCollab unified communications platform to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. […]

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Hackers exploit Four-Faith router flaw to open reverse shells

Threat actors are exploiting a post-authentication remote command injection vulnerability in Four-Faith routers tracked as CVE-2024-12856 to open reverse shells back to the attackers. The malicious activity was discovered by VulnCheck, who informed Four-Faith about the active exploitation on December 20, 2024. However, it is unclear if security updates for the vulnerability are currently available. […]

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Hackers exploit DoS flaw to disable Palo Alto Networks firewalls

Palo Alto Networks is warning that hackers are exploiting the CVE-2024-3393 denial of service vulnerability to disable firewall protections by forcing it to reboot. Leveraging the security issue repeatedly, however, causes the device to enter maintenance mode and manual intervention is required to restore it to normal operations. “A Denial of Service vulnerability in the DNS […]

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New critical Apache Struts flaw exploited to find vulnerable servers

A recently patched critical Apache Struts 2 vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-53677 is actively exploited using public proof-of-concept exploits to find vulnerable devices. Apache Struts is an open-source framework for building Java-based web applications used by various organizations, including government agencies, e-commerce platforms, financial institutions, and airlines. Apache publicly disclosed the Struts CVE-2024-53677 flaw (CVSS 4.0 score: 9.5, “critical”) […]

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Windows kernel bug now exploited in attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges

CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against ongoing attacks targeting a high-severity Windows kernel vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2024-35250, this security flaw is due to an untrusted pointer dereference weakness that allows local attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges in low-complexity attacks that don’t require user interaction. While Microsoft didn’t share more details in a security […]

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