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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, […]
New Mirai botnet targets industrial routers with zero-day exploits
A relatively new Mirai-based botnet has been growing in sophistication and is now leveraging zero-day exploits for security flaws in industrial routers and smart home devices. Exploitation of previously unknown vulnerabilities started in November 2024, according to Chainxin X Lab researchers who monitored the botnet’s development and attacks. One of the security issues is CVE-2024-12856, a […]
Adobe warns of critical ColdFusion bug with PoC exploit code
Adobe has released out-of-band security updates to address a critical ColdFusion vulnerability with proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code. In an advisory released on Monday, the company says the flaw (tracked as CVE-2024-53961) is caused by a path traversal weakness that impacts Adobe ColdFusion versions 2023 and 2021 and can enable attackers to read arbitrary files on vulnerable servers. “Adobe is […]
Mitel MiCollab zero-day flaw gets proof-of-concept exploit
Researchers have uncovered an arbitrary file read zero-day in the Mitel MiCollab collaboration platform, allowing attackers to access files on a server’s filesystem. Mitel MiCollab is an enterprise collaboration platform that consolidates various communication tools into a single application, offering voice and video calling, messaging, presence information, audio conferencing, mobility support, and team collaboration functionalities. […]
Exploit released for critical WhatsUp Gold RCE flaw, patch now
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a critical-severity remote code execution flaw in Progress WhatsUp Gold has been published, making it critical to install the latest security updates as soon as possible. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-8785 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8) and was discovered by Tenable in mid-August 2024. It exists in the NmAPI.exe process in WhatsUp […]
Critical bug in EoL D-Link NAS devices now exploited in attacks
Attackers now target a critical severity vulnerability with publicly available exploit code that affects multiple models of end-of-life D-Link network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Tracked as CVE-2024-10914, the command injection vulnerability was found by security researcher Netsecfish, who also shared exploitation details and said that unauthenticated attackers could exploit it to inject arbitrary shell commands by sending […]
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 […]
Exploit released for new Windows Server “WinReg” NTLM Relay attack
Proof-of-concept exploit code is now public for a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Remote Registry client that could be used to take control of a Windows domain by downgrading the security of the authentication process. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-43532 and takes advantage of a fallback mechanism in the Windows Registry (WinReg) client implementation that relies on old transport protocols […]
Akira and Fog ransomware now exploit critical Veeam RCE flaw
Ransomware gangs now exploit a critical security vulnerability that lets attackers gain remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) servers. Code White security researcher Florian Hauser found that the security flaw, now tracked as CVE-2024-40711, is caused by a deserialization of untrusted data weakness that unauthenticated threat actors can exploit in […]
Palo Alto Networks warns of firewall hijack bugs with public exploit
Palo Alto Networks warned customers today to patch security vulnerabilities (with public exploit code) that can be chained to let attackers hijack PAN-OS firewalls. The flaws were found in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition solution, which helps migrate configurations from other Checkpoint, Cisco, or supported vendors. They can be exploited to access sensitive data, such as […]