16 Apr, 2025

New Mirai botnet behind surge in TVT DVR exploitation

A significant spike in exploitation attempts targeting TVT NVMS9000 DVRs has been detected, peaking on April 3, 2025, with over 2,500 unique IPs scanning for vulnerable devices. The attacks attempt to exploit an information disclosure vulnerability first disclosed by an SSD Advisory in May 2024, which published the full exploitation details on retrieving admin credentials in cleartext using […]

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Exploits for unpatched Parallels Desktop flaw give root on Macs

Two different exploits for an unpatched Parallels Desktop privilege elevation vulnerability have been publicly disclosed, allowing users to gain root access on impacted Mac devices. Parallels Desktop is a virtualization software that allows Mac users to run Windows, Linux, and other operating systems alongside macOS. It is very popular among developers, businesses, and casual users […]

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Hackers exploit authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS

Hackers are launching attacks against Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS firewalls by exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability (CVE-2025-0108) that allows bypassing authentication. The security issue received a high-severity score and impacts the PAN-OS management web interface and allows an unauthenticated attacker on the network to bypass authentication and invoke certain PHP scripts, potentially compromising integrity and confidentiality. In […]

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SonicWall firewall exploit lets hackers hijack VPN sessions, patch now

Security researchers at Bishop Fox have published complete exploitation details for the CVE-2024-53704 vulnerability that allows bypassing the authentication mechanism in certain versions of the SonicOS SSLVPN application. The vendor warned about the high exploitation possibility of the flaw in a bulletin on January 7, urging administrators to upgrade their SonicOS firewalls’ firmware to address […]

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Zyxel won’t patch newly exploited flaws in end-of-life routers

Zyxel has issued a security advisory about actively exploited flaws in CPE Series devices, warning that it has no plans to issue fixing patches and urging users to move to actively supported models. VulnCheck discovered the two flaws in July 2024, but last week, GreyNoise reported having seen exploitation attempts in the wild. According to network […]

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Fake LDAPNightmware exploit on GitHub spreads infostealer malware

A deceptive proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2024-49113 (aka “LDAPNightmare”) on GitHub infects users with infostealer malware that exfiltrates sensitive data to an external FTP server. The tactic isn’t novel, as there have been multiple documented cases of malicious tools disguised as PoC exploits on GitHub. However, this case, discovered by Trend Micro, highlights that threat actors continue to […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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